What is the best way to advertise on the internet?

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The first step to market or advertise your business is to create a website or blog. If you want to save cost, you can design the web pages yourself and publish your site on free web hosting service providers. Most blog service providers don't charge a fee, and it is easier to maintain than a website. Famous blogs providers are blogger.com and wordspress.com.

After building your website, submit your website or blog to the major search engines . To get high ranking in search engines, you must optimize your website for search engines, a process called search engine optimization, which means you have to include certain keywords in your web pages that are related to your business.

To actively promote your website for free, you can participate in online forums that are related to your business. You can also leave comments in blogs or websites. Besides, you can include a share button to let people share the URL of your website with their friends in social networking websites like facebook and digg. The code to include this button in your website is:

　<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4a8273cd12365f70"><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=xa-4a8273cd12365f70"></script>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->

Besides, you can also exchange links with other websites.

Other than free marketing, you can also try paid advertising. Google's offers pay-per-click advertising called AdWords, where you can place ads in Google's huge network of publishers, you only pay when users click on your ads.