Just starting out with online marketing?  Don’t have the resources to stand a chance in striking a deal established JV partners?  lacking the budget for PPC campaigns?

No problem!

Here are 5 free but highly potent methods you can use to advertise your business online.

1.    Article marketing.  Write an article related to the subject matter of your online business.  Make sure that this article shares something valuable.  Submit the article to the big article banks in the World Wide Web, particularly www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com.  Include a resource box, which should mention something interesting about yourself or your business, as well as the URL of your website.  accomplish this at least three times per week.  In due time, you will generate direct traffic courtesy of the people whose interest you’ve garnered because of your articles, as well as indirect traffic because of a higher search engine position achieved with thek help of the countless back links you are sure to get per article.

2.    Link exchange.  This is similar to you scratching someone’s back, and him returning the favor.  Other online marketers are likewise looking for exposure for their ventures.  hook up with them by guaranteeing to place their link on your web pages if they will do the same.

3.    Distributing press releases.  Many offline and online entities are always looking for newsworthy items to republish.  They read newswires for such pieces.  You can write a hype-free, noteworthy news item about your online venture.  You may state the launch of your business, minus the hype, naturally.  You may announce the upload of your web pages.  You may announce the launch of a new commodity, without any form of a sales pitch.  Craft a press release, and submit the same to online newswires like www.prweb.com, and in just a few hours, offline and virtual world publications will be picking it up, driving fantastic traffic to your URL.

4.    Use and abuse the power of user-driven web tools.  The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the online denizens themselves have the power to dictate the course of particular online trends.  As a savvy online marketer, you can exploit this to your advantage by specifically targeting social news networks (Digg.com, Reddit.com, Propeller.com), social networking websites (MySpace.com,. FaceBook.com), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon.com) and making them a part of your marketing campaigns.  Without a doubt, Web 2.0 websites are free to turn into marketing machines.

5.    Search engine optimization.  8 out of 10 visitors that you will be able to win for your website will come from the search engines.  And search engine traffic won’t cost you a single cent, if you can optimize your web pages to garner the attention of those search engine spiders