10 ways to promote your website

10 ways to promote your website
1. Post newsgroups
2. Press releases
3. Email to VIPs
4. Article submission
5. Reciprocal Links
6. Forum Posting
7. Directory submission
8. Tell everyone with whom you communicate
9. Post ads to free advertising website
10. Blogging

Myspace ;)

Spam ten millions with your offer :P (I'm just kidding)

Some other ways are :

1) Affiliate program (Make your own program if you sell something)
2) Join toplists
3) Digg (if you have some content that is usefull there

Nikolas: Have you had any luck with Digg? I have some article ideas but I'm not sure if they'd be as sucessful as I hope!  The results that people have got from it though sound breathtaking! You know of any figures that people have experienced traffic wise as a result of having content on digg?

Check this thread :

http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,2272.0.The+digg+effect%2C+my+experience.html

What Digg? Is it giving out your content with a link back?

Yeah, check it here : digg.com

digg is really great place, it greatly intend ppl to bookmarks. Though I think they should have nice control on spam otherwise soon it will convert into spam gallery.

You can also give out a free wallpaper or screensaver which has a link to your site. The wallpaper/screensaver can be distributed via various free download sites. This has been quite sucessful for some sites.

If you have an utility script, that can also be given away free through sites like hotscripts etc. That should generate a decent amount of traffic.

I don't know if third party are a relly big succes since a lot of thim install a lot of spyware...

but the second one is really good if you have some nice tool submit the information to hotscripts (and similare) and get get hundreds of visitors every month for free (depends on the tool you have)

I meant designing your own screensavers and wallpapers..

how do I know if this screenserver is spyware free?

Cold call/viral marketing/offline marketing are few other method that you can implement as well.

Hi Sarpras,

10 ways to promote the website, sound interesting!!!

Could you please let me know "How to post newsgroups"

Lissa

Yes, offline advertising of websites can work surprisingly well. I have used very basic flyers to advertise some local affiliate programs. The clicks just trickle in over a long period. However, the quality of the traffic is much higher than the traditional online methods.

I think that this is because they take the flyer to the computer, type in the URL because they are genuinely interested and give it their full attention. But if they click on a link or an ad while surfing, they look for just a short while. They've probably seen 20 sites in the last hour, and will surf another 20 in the following hour.

Just to add:

Link Baiting
Viral marketing

Has anyone tried linkreferral.com?  I've been doing it for about a month and I do get traffic if I keep up with the program!

I don't like link schemes in general, so I wouldn't use this one too.

Cindy,

I use Linkreferral and get quite a bit of traffic from there, but I wouldn't spend too much time on there. The reviews of your website are quite useful.

Barb

> Social Bookmarking
> PPC

Umm .. what exactly does E-Mailing  to VIPS's mean ?.  I more way I can add i answering Yahoo questions and posting a link in your signature .

linkreferal is useless for traffic but good for reviews of your site.

I would suggest that you not use #5. It is a waste of time.

For one joke I use one post or in simple words in one post there is one joke. Now kindly tell me should I digg one post (its hardly have four lines). I mean this is something not as per the standard but as you are the frequent user of digg so please advice.

No I wouldn't post that to digg. Digg's visitors is a tech savy audience so unless you have a killer tech story do not submit it there because they may even ban your site from their service.

Thanks for your response ... now kindly tell me how to promote my jokes related website.

Continue reading webdigity. I am sure that you'll find many ways to promote your site ;)

can somebody please explain link baiting? Also, what are thoughts on article submission - I know digg is a little different, but what about the more classic article site?

Link bait is - in simple words - the techique of writing an article that people will love to refer to. It should probably be a resource list or in general an article that defines what it is refer to.

Now about article marketing I don't think it works the way it used to before a few years because of the duplicate content. But if you write a unique article and post it as a guest blogger to another blog or a big site about your niche can help.

So what are the real good ways to promote your site? I mean, the ones noone mentioned here haha?
>:D

As I said link bait is the best way for long term results. Try it and you'll see :)

So what about things like posting some of your content on a bit torrent server and the like?
What about paying a little money to cheap workers in philipines to move your links around, etc?
I mean, there's a lot of stuff to be done...and I'm no expert nor have done some of the things because I still don't have the content I want to sell, but the time will come.

About link baiting, it all boils down to having great content doesn't it?

Yeah, that's it. Cheap workers can't do what great content can. For instance you can hire someone to submit your site to thousands of directories. First of all you don't know where they will submit your site, and this alone can cause penalties (FFA, etc)

On the other hand a good link bait can give you fresh links every day for months

I would put forums number 1

Great informations,but i dont understand about newsgroups how to apply it.

 Is word of mouth a joke?

Adding yourself to review sites covering your niche can also help.

Then, encouraging clients new and old to complete reviews, will boost traffic.

Good suggestions above also.

i realy don't like the long list without any explaination or practical experience

each one is good and each one is hard to acheive
if u could do all of them well enough
then u can be successful

 
Quite intrigue of these reciprocal linking and viral marketing, could you tell me how to get information who the webmaster or co of the sites whom want to send email ?  :-[


TradeYourAsset

add social bookmarking on that

Also include social media and networking.. Social networking sites like facebook, twitter, myspace, multiply helps increase the amount of traffic on your site.. 

Thanks for the info and advice...great to know before I spend time on this stuff!

1. directory submission
2. social bookmarking
3. article submission
4. link bating
5. press realese
6. blogging
7. forum posting
8. squidoo lense
9. reciprocal links
10. post newgroups

To promote the website both are necessary On-Page Optimizationas well Off-Page Optimization.
First you have to do On-Page Optimization,including
meta tags
keywords
title tags
alt attributes
h1/h2 tags
description tags

Next is Off-Page Optimization. It deals with building links. Here are some of the techniques of doing Off-Page Optimization:
- article submissions
- blog commenting
- classified ads
- directory submissions
- forum posting
- link exchange
- press release
- online groups
- social media and networking
- social bookmarking

Thanks so much...this helps a lot!  What are h1/h2 tags and how do I put them in?

Right, u can add social networking to your list!

Hi, matthemattrix.

I would imagine this would work. Having heard of the term 'banner blindness,' I think the phenomenon of skipping, skimming, scanning as one views (not necessarily reads) textual content on websites is bound to extend to one's responsiveness to ads. If we've trained ourselves to ignore banner ads, then textual ads would probably suffer the same avoidance from us. However, your the-hard-way style of site promotion is intriguing. People read slower on the web as opposed to print, so if they actually finish reading the flyer (I do hope it's concisely written) they might just hop on that url provided.

I prefer the one-way links provided by taking part in blog/forum comments, and those in the author boxes of articles sent to article directories. They work.

The good thing about the links left in articles published by article directories is that the article may have nothing to do with the site being promoted. All that matters is for the link to appear in as many places online as they can.

I prefer generating back links myself, or as assigned to a writer, since I would like comments that read like a human being who read the thread actually wrote them.

This offline marketing strategy is intriguing, to say the least. But then you'd have to design your flyer quite well to do this. Maybe it has to be jobbed out?

I've always been a big fan of articles, forum posts, blog comment and profile links. Just stick to these and you should be able to rank up in less then 3 months.

Social Networking also drives a lots of traffic to the site.

yahoo answers
do-follow blog comments
social bookmarking service and so on

Hay, you miss something most important here and that is social bookmarking. I think, social bookmarking is very important component to promote a site.

Personally I like article submission. It is very helpful as per my experience.

Social bookmarking too is one way...has anyone have a luck with delicious and stumbleupon?

Thanks for your ways ,they are useful to me .

Forum posts, social media, and article submissions are great tools to promote your site.

Thanks guys... great stuff...

i like rainny

Article submission might prove very useful if you know how to use it..

I see that you already have forums and article marketing, but I didn't see video SEO added. Videos are very popular and worth adding to the list to promote your site.

i m realy looking to know the ways to promote a website

hihihi Good TIPS!!!
Thank you

all tricks is good but i need automatic working solution.

i think the idea of giving a wallpaper is good

what about reddit can we get backlinks through this website

Article submission is still very useful, especially if the submitted news and posts contain some hot issues and getting reprinted across the net by admins of other blogs and webmasters who are looking for similar discussions plus in-depth analysis of the points.

There is also one other way of adding contents to the websites directly and that is using blogs and forgetting about submissions. If you add contents to your blog regularly, after some time some free and one way links could be gained from other sources.

i read this view and i will work on this tips.

nice tips, thanks for shearing

most wanted info

I prefer article submission but only with the best press release service with enough google trust. So I google my keywords and have a look at the SERPs and choose the article directory with the highest position.

Press release? Isn't that just a bit exaggerated? Should I post in the local newspaper and tell people I have a website? :))

yes, this is the normal steps to promote the website, it is easier said than done!

Hey, don't ever forget about social media. It is one of the best way to promote your site.
Having a lot of friends to communicate with on facebook and followers on twitter will be very beneficial ^_^

nice tips, thanks for shearing

squidoo and hub pages are also a widely used method on these days? Has anybody get good result from it?

Useful information ..I am very happy to read this article..thanks for giving us this useful information. Fantastic walk-through. I appreciate this post.

I think you should also include SBM & Commenting. These two way is also used to promote website.

blogging, twitter, facebook, myspace

Yeah ....?  Article Submission and SMO.. are the best ways to get genuine traffic...
And yes......social bookmarking like digg is also useful.. but only in case of videos and pics!!!

You missed social media optimization and video marketing.

One have to work hard to promote the website, to gain positive results , as without promotion your website is like an empty dustbin hiding under a table, If you work good on the on and off page optimization then surely you will get a great positive response...

Ya waht you mentioned are good Good. Twitter , Facebook are also good for Promoting website

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Hello
    I think these are 10ways to promote your website

1 Hone your search engine submission processso you can get the best exposure possible.

2 If you're still itching for more exposure, you can explore search engine marketing, wherein you pay to have a text ad appear when visitors search for certain keywords.

3 Launch a sweepstakesthat offers anyone who registers on your site or subscribes to e-newsletters within a certain time frame the chance to win a free gift.

4 Send out a weekly e-mail newsletterto registered site members that offers tips and news related to your company or industry with links back to your site.

5 Offer free contentto other sites. It's a win-win situation: The other site gets free articles to beef up their offerings and you get a link back to your site and the cachet of being an expert.

6 Send a well-planned, customer-focused e-mail promotionto a targeted list of potential visitors and offer a credit toward the purchase of anything from your site. Spend time on your e-mail's look and content: You want to offer value to customers and not have it appear to be spam.

7  Create your own link exchangeby asking sites complementary to yours (but that don't compete) to put your link on their pages and you'll do likewise.

8 Hook up with webaffiliates--hundreds of sites that all link their traffic to yours--and get visitors from sites with related content.

9 Get active in online discussion groups and chats and always include your URL in your signature. (Don't do any hard selling, though. Most groups frown on such behavior and will think you're spamming the group.)

10 Any time someone orders a product from your site, include a catalog with their order to get them coming back for more.

can you come with this. what does it mean in exact way?

IMO, promotion that hauls in traffic and revenues must be tailored to go beyond itself. If website owners and business owners will see the necessity in going for targeted traffic, then they will absolutely be spared from the expense of time, effort and money. Effective viral marketing of any product will only be as effective once all efforts are laid-out in the tables of people who are interested on what is being offered. ? 

i think many of these advices are already dated, because many things have changed since 2006 year. I think now promoting of websites become more and more difficult day by day. I think now one of the most important feature in promoting is content.

Good point wanderer89 - today "Content is King" and although all these SEO techniquies are a must, top of the list is unique, informative, useful CONTENT.

Yes, content is one of the most important thing. But how can you understand that your content is perfect? It is really very difficult task

Nice post. Thanks for sharing us this information.

It seems to me those tips are nice. 

1o ways to promote the sit.It sound great.But I want to know how to do it

I have also used Linkreferral and like it.
Highly recommended.

be they are useful,Ten wats .It sounds great

dofollow forum posting and blog commenting also drives a lots of traffic to the site.

Stumble, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Traffup, Youtube, LinkedIn, Ycombinator

In this digital era of marketing and advertising there is no doubt that these sites are very important and effective sources to get good traffic and promote your business in very short period.

Hi,

Viral marketing is the best way to promote our websites quickly.

Thank you

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All the techniques mentioned so far are ONline marketing.

Don't forget OFFline marketing.
Many companies that are selling a product (instead of a website for AdSense income) are quite happy doing offline marketing: business cards, pens, highlighters, coffee mugs, paper ads, baseball caps, etc. The website is just a means to an end.

Even if you are promoting a website for its own sake (for AdSense revenue), some of these techniques work fine too.
For example, having proper business cards printed makes you look a lot more professional than scribbling your website URL down on a scrap piece of paper every time you meet somebody in person and want to let them know about your site.

Another example: if your site is relevant to students, get some bookmarks printed. Then hand them out around a local school, in the library, or just insert them in many library books.

Or photocopy many small paper ads that you can post around a school or neighborhood.

Or get some inexpensive pens made and hand them out. Then every time somebody uses the pen, which has your URL on it, your site stays in sight--and in mind.

There is no doubt that these methods or ways are very important and effective for website promotion and advertising, but i think when we start use these methods we neglect quality and therefor we get less results.