Probably the easiest thing with online business is setting-up the business, and the most difficult thing – promoting it. All websites needs visitors but not all visitors want to visit every websites. You should practice one or more types of marketing practices to tell your existing/possible customers that ‘here is a website that can fulfill your needs’. Here are some tips for promoting your websites.

• Keep your website name close to your product name or company name.
• Make a logo, which is eye catching and worth remembering.
• Is your website is new or recently undergone a template change? Then make sure that your website is Search Engine friendly. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a good practice, both as long-term and short-term.
• Promote your website offline via putting it on newsletter, free gifts, employee uniforms, your mailing signature, press releases, company vehicles, yellow pages, company hoardings, or with anything that requires your company/product name/logo.
• Promote your website online by listing it on relevant directories and search engines.
• Practice advertising programs like AdSense, paid inclusion, etc.
• Offer some free things for your visitors, like free newsletter, quality blog, interesting reports, surveys, discussion forums, product comparison, entertaining videos and photos, etc.

Remember peoples only returns to websites which they think are worth visiting. So never keep it a simple junk of images and tables.