Making a website isn’t the only thing that would help you reach more and more people. A number of techniques need to be used in order to rank your website on search engine results. This can be achieved by the things mentioned in this post.Like: A press release in terms of Websites is the official announcement of your website being live. It is similar to launching a new cell phone in the market via news reports, advertisements etc. Press Releases increase your presence on the internet and tell the internet world about the launching of your website.

How to Advertise your website for free and get free traffic and back links

Before actually promoting/advertising your website, make sure that your website has Original Content, is reader friendly, is written in a simple language and is informative.
After doing the last part, do the following:

 Directory Listings
The first way to advertise your website for free on the internet is through directory submissions. Submit your website on various online directories available.(For the top 10 directory listing websites click here ).
Directory submission/listing refers to the process of adding your website to a web directory like the one’s mentioned above. This process involves submitting your website URL and other details of your website in the most suitable category. Like if your website is about ‘Auto Mobiles’ then you wouldn’t submit it in the ‘Internet Marketing’ category(obviously), you would submit it under categories like : “Auto Mobiles” “Travel” “Auto Parts” etc. So directory submission is a very good way to advertise your website for free.

 Press Release
The second way to advertise your website for free on the internet is through Press Releases. A press release in terms of Websites is the official announcement of your website being live. It is similar to launching a new cell phone in the market via news reports, advertisements etc. Press Releases increase your presence on the internet and tell the internet world about the launching of your website. A successful press release might increase the traffic on your website. There are a number of websites on which you can release your websites after it’s completion and uploading. (To know the top 10 Press Release websites click here )
To know what a good press release is click here

Article Submission
The third way to advertise your website for free is through article submissions. Now, this is another method of increasing your ONE-WAY LINKS. One-way links are the links coming from different websites to your website or your website pages. Submit articles of your area of expertise. Creating an auto-bio about you and your website would definitely help.
Include keywords to your Home Page, Internal Pages.
Articles should be :
From 500-800 Words.
Should be industry specific.
Be consistent in posting articles. One article posted/week would be good.
Should have a summary at the end or beginning of the article to give the reader a jist of the theme of the article.

One of the best article submission websites is: Ezine Article
(To know about the top 10 article submission websites click here)

 Social Bookmarking
Wikepedia defines Social Bookmarking as “A social bookmarking service is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.”
A social bookmark is a link that people post to social networking websites like Twitter, Pinterest etc for others to see because they find it cool or informative.
`By adding social bookmarking links you are creating backlinks to you own website, which helps in <SEO>.
`It helps you generate traffic through such social media platforms and that too for free.
`It is a risk-free strategy and might fetch you a good traffic in less time.
`It helps you rank higher in search results as well.
The best SocialMedia bookmarking websites are: Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit.
(To know about the top 10 Social Bookmarking websites click here)

 Blogging
You can use free blogging websites like WordPress, Blogspot to advertise your product/website. It helps you improve your search engine rankings too. Posing comments on existing blogs of similar topics helps to generate traffic on the website too.
To know about the top 10 Free Blogging Platforms click here

 Pinging
By pinging you update different search engines that your blog/website has been updated. Pinging websites such as ping-o-matic.com helps you submit your blog/website links.
Pinging even allows you to choose the country or industry you want to ping in.
(To know about the top 10 pinging websites click here)

Classified Ads
You can post free classified ads on websites like craigslist.org or Olx.com. If you’ve started selling a product, post a free ad on these websites. They have a large follower base and they might fetch you some good business too.  To know about the top 10 websites to post your free classifieds, click here.

YouTube and Facebook comment posting
You can fetch more traffic by posting relevant comments on YouTube videos or Facebook Pages of your field of interest. If you’re running an e-commerce site, then you can go for online product videos on YouTube. If you’re running an education portal, find videos about entrance exams, schools and colleges. In the same way you can find Facebook pages of the organizations in your industry and post relevant and genuine comments. By relevant I mean posting something that makes sense and goes with the theme of the post. If someone has asked a question through some post, first answer that question and then include your website link. Posting the link directly is of no use(Spamming).
Some tips to post comments on YouTube or Facebook:

• Post relevant material.
• Don’t spam. You might get banned from the video or page. Facebook or YouTube might even ban your website links.
• Start up conversations. Get involved with other users.
• Earn some credibility first. Build a good reputation among the users.
• Don’t over do it.

 Forum and Blog Posting
There are a large number of Forums on the internet. Find Forums related to your website type. One Forum of my genre is ‘Black Hat World’. This forum is about SEO and has a large community of SEO experts. So, find the right forums for your website and start getting involved in the conversations. Keep in mind the following points for Forum Posting too.

• Post relevant material.
• Don’t spam. You might get banned from the Forum.
• Start up conversations. Get involved with other users.
• Earn some credibility first. Build a good reputation among the users.
• Don’t over do it.

 Search Engine Marketing
You can promote your website through search engines as well. Services like Google Ad Words help you post text advertisements in their search engine results. It may incur some good investment though. Google charges a different amount for different keywords. The charges are made per click. 

All the content that you submit should be UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT. If you keep copy-pasting the content on different Submission websites, it will not help you. I may mark your submission as SPAM. So it’s better making a few changes in your content and publishing it on these websites(Directories, PR Website, Article Submission Websites).
You can shuffle the sentences, use different words with the same meanings etc.