Guide to Free Internet Marketing

Step 1 - Sign up for Google Places.

Estimated time of completion: 10-20 min

Visit Google Places and sign up for a free account. Google often displays information from participating businesses at the top of its results pages when people search for local products and services.

If you're going to do one thing to promote your business online, do this!

Step 2 - Add your website to DMOZ Open Directory Project.

Estimated time of completion: 5-10 min

Visit the DMOZ.org homepage and do a search for your primary product, service or industry. When you find the category closest to what your business offers, add your website by clicking the "suggest URL" button in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

Major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and AOL use the DMOZ Open Directory Project as a basis for their search results so submitting your website is definitely worth the time.

Step 3 - Submit your site to major search engines.

Estimated time of completion: 5 min

Complete the short submission forms at Google and Bing so they know where to find your website.

Step 4 - Add your business listing to internet yellow pages directories.

Estimated time of completion: 15-30 min

Follow the links below to add your business listing to major internet yellow pages directories for free.

• SuperMedia (Superpages.com, Switchboard.com, and LocalSearch.com)
• YellowPages.com
• YPdx Yellow Pages