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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Ways of Getting in the Search Engines Free

Yes, It's been a long while since I've posted here. I've been doing a lot of coaching for my team as well as members outside of my team on their candle business and other businesses. I've done so many 3-ways lead calling, I lost count but each and every one was enjoyable and I've learned so much from the people I've talked to.

I've found a few ways that you can get yourself on the search engines that don't cost anything but a little time and personally, I think they are fun ways to do it.

Signing Guest Books - This is a great way to meet new people by writing something nice to the owner of the site. Most of the time, they'll allow you to put a url link as well as your name. Just something short and sweet will do and adds credibility to the site owner and to yourself as you extend positive comments.

Contacting Site Owners - This works similar to the guest book idea where you give positive feedback about their site. The neat thing here is sometimes they'll put your feedback on the site where it's noticeable because they're proud of the compliments and you get extra coverage. This is good if the site has a high ranking and you have your feedback featured, it produces a higher ranking for you because it's considered a inbound link for you.

Contests - This one has to be my all-time favorite because most people like to win things even if it's something small. But if it's of great value, they'll look further into it. Find a few sites that offer weekly, monthly, or yearly contests. Ask them if you can offer a product as a prize to the contest winner. I did this idea with a well known author, Maggie Shayne, and the contest went well and I have the winner entering my candle drawing now.

www.Where2Go.com - this is a site that will hold a contest for you for free. If your website has a contest on it, you can list it with Where2Go and get entries, OR you can have a contests hosted on Where2Go and they collect the entries and choose a winner for you. You will have access to see all the people that entered through Where2Go with their name, last initial, and email address. This is a very popular site and frequented by many people. I usually do it both ways where they host it and and by using www.candlepassion.scent-team.com as the site containing the contest. I'll also use www.ACTNow2Win.com and this one www.laplanteenterprises.com/jd/contest.html.

www.Decidio.com - this is another free site to list your products/business and when you get a lead in your email inbox, you have the option of choosing to purchase the lead for $1. You'll get all the information except for the identifying information such as name, email address, and phone number. But you'll see products needed, estimated location, quanities, and additional comments they have.

And lastly, Blogs. You can write in comments pertaining to the blog entry and adding your contact information if it is allowed. This is one idea you do not want to abuse as it will come back and bite you in the end.

These are all just a few ideas that I've shared with my team, yahoo groups, and networking groups to help get your name out there at no cost or low cost. Granted, these can be time consuming but every action step produces results whether it be immediately or later on.

Best of success to you! :-)