Before you read any further, you got to sit in this special class of ” The Modern Internet Marketing Conundrum” . Want to promote your site? You got to give it money, time or both. Having said that. Class is over.

I do realize a lot of us are not in a position to pay money upfront, at least not until we EARN some of it, right? So, how do we go about it? Where are the best places to advertise for free online?

1. FFA : You see, there was a problem with the FFA ( Free for all). The moment you post your ad, look around you and stretch yourself a bit and then look back at the page where you posted it, it would vanish. So what should you be doing? Well, you would still do it but you would do it at some smart FFA pages where, your ad stays put by using a revolutionary new method called self-replicating technology.

Here is an extract from one of the best sites I had seen in the FFA category :

FFAs as we know it are dead. The search engines not only ignore them, now they penalize you for having links of fleeting FFA pages. You know the ones. After getting your link on the page a few hours later they get deleted. Not so with the FFAfarm, the oldest FFA site on the Internet. The biggest challenge with the old method FFAs is they drop your link after 100 or so others have posted. This makes your link virtually useless. By the time the search engine robots check the page, your link has disappeared. Not so with FFAfarm.  

FFAfarm’s sister site, FREEffas gives away ffa systems for free. Not the others. They charge you for a fully optimized system.

NOTE: None of our systems use ANNOYING popup or popunder pages, drop adware, spyware or hijack your browsers when you visit. Plus there is no advertising clutter either. Your link stays on the FFAfarm indefinitely. Assuring better link integrity by leaving a permanent link to your site, the search engine robots will reward you with better rankings. After a category fills to 100 links, a separate html page with your link is spawned and served indefinitely from our system. Thereby guaranteeing your link a lifetime on the Internet. So, we really aren’t a traditional FFA type system. Think of us as a permanent link system. The only limitation is you can not add the same URL twice on the same page. But once the page spawns and a new page is made available, you can link again and again.When you submit to our system, your submitting to 25,000 plus sites as well. So with one submission, you get 25,000 unique web urls pointing to your site. Pretty good link popularity, don’t you think? Extortion marketing at work, for free.However, to use our system, you must use a real email address. When you verify that address, be aware that you are giving permission to all the FFA site administrators to send you an email at the most, once a week. Use an autoresponder, we don’t care. If your posting with a remote system, that’s OK too. We are the friendliest FFA system on the Internet.

Our system will also post your link remotely to 1,000s of other systems as well, so one post here can virtually post to just about all the big systems on the Internet. Have you noticed more and more FFA systems are going out of business? That’s because most of those systems didn’t use legitimate verification. We do. In fact we invented it. If you don’t verify, be advised, that many of the independent FFA sites we have submitted you to, will continue to request verification from their system. However, most of these requests come through our servers. What this means is you have total control to elliminate the verification request by simply clicking on the suppresion link found in all email that comes through us. Once you do this, 99% of the verification requests will stop.

 Furthermore, if you decide later on that you don’t want any email from our system, just click the same suppresion link found in all verified email as well and all email from our system will end. A friendly FFA system you say? Darn right. We are the first and only totally friendly FFA system on the Internet. We plan on being here for the long term too.

2. Trafficswarm : One of the very best when it comes to gathering some respectable traffic to your site. The “pro” membership requires you to cough up some cash but then, you can decide to invest time and effort and save that cash for now. The system works because people would have to click through each of those member sites and have to view each site sometime before moving on. Traffic that has the time to read through your sites. Cool, eh?

3. Classifieds : Well, another one of those free tactics that could get you some trickling traffic. You never know but you could try. But then, you would do well to remember that if you were selling some products or services suited to your local market, you should not be looking at International classifeds or something. You are with me?

Here are some places you could start from :

• 1-st Classifieds

• Yellowpages 

• Sulekha ( India, US and UK)  

• How can I forget Craigslist ?

3. Joint-ventures : Sometimes, the small guy doesn’t have the money to pay up, he walks to the big guy and says ‘Hey, dude! Why don’t you carry me on your back for now? When I am as big as you are, we could work something out for this favour?”

Joint-ventures are a great strategy if you could pull it off. It takes good communication skills, over the phone or the email. You would also need persuasiveness, a stubborn refusal to let go. If you have it, go for it. It won’t vcost you a dime and you might just make it.

You could try business and social networking sites for this one at Linkedin, faceook, orkut, myspace or Ryze.

To promote your site isn’t a days work, a weeks work or even a years work. It is recurring, consistent, back-breaking work and if you want to make it big,  you got to work just that harder. No short cuts to success, remember?

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