Just starting out with internet business?  Do you lack the resources to stand a chance in striking a deal established joint venture partners?  lacking the budget for pay per click campaigns?

Don’t fret just yet!

Here are 5 free but highly effective methods you can utilize to market your business on the internet.

1.    Article marketing.  Come up with an article relevant to the subject matter of your online business.  Guarantee that this article conveys something valuable.  Submit the article to the main article banks in the World Wide Web, particularly www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com.  Include a bio box, which should mention read-worthy tidbits about yourself or your business, as well as the URL of your website.  accomplish this at least 3x every week.  In a short period of time, you will generate direct traffic composed of the people who got interested about your articles, as well as indirect traffic as a result of a higher search engine position gained via the hundreds back links you are sure to garner per article.

2.    Link exchange.  This is similar to you scratching another’s back, and him returning the favor.  Other internet businessmen are also looking for exposure for their enterprises.  Partner up with them by promising to include their link on your web pages if they will do the same.

3.    Distributing press releases.  Thousands of offline and virtual world publications are always looking for interesting items to republish.  They monitor newswires for such pieces.  You can craft an objective, newswortht news item about your online enterprise.  You may state the launch of your venture, minus self serving words of praise, most definitely.  You may announce the upload of your web pages.  You may announce the launch of a new commodity, without the slightest tinge of a sales pitch.  Write a press release, and enroll 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, generating fantastic traffic to your web pages.

4.    Exploit the power of user-driven websites.  The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the online denizens themselves have the power to dictate what’s hot and what’s not.  You can use this to your benefit by particularly targeting social news networks (Digg.com, Reddit.com, Propeller.com), social networking websites (MySpace.com,. FaceBook.com), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon.com) and converting them into powerful vehicles for your marketing campaigns.  Indeed, Web 2.0 websites are free to turn into marketing machines.

5.    SEO.  80% of the traffic 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 create your web pages to gain the attention of those search engine spiders