10 ways to promote your website

* Link building such as directory submission, link exchange, forum signature etc
* Optimize the titles of your pages for relevant keywords people will search for
* Send articles to ezine publishers with a link back to your website
* Add a bookmark this site link in a high profile spot on your site
* Add an RSS subscribe button/link in a high profile spot on your site

Thank you for the good tips.

Here are 104 that i saw in Darthmall's post but no one even seemed to read it, they are really good!!

http://seonoobs.com/104-ways-to-get-backlinks-mega-backlink-guide/

seriously there are some gems in here

there are more ways,
but thats a nice list!

Can these 10 ways really help to gain traffic for my site

The points are good and the only idea I have is about the reciprocal links. They are not very powerful nowadays as they were a couple of years before.

Right now I am not using reciprocal linking. I prefer on way link exchange.

Good points.

Social Bookmarking websites also plays key role in bringing traffic to the site.
Directory Submissions are best for backlinks.

It's interesting that people have mentioned stickers, etc. Offline advertising can be quite effective, particularly if your website is for a bricks and mortar business.

One of the more innovative methods of offline website advertising I have seen was a URL chalked on the sidewalk of busy streets. Many thousands of people see these ads, which cost next to nothing. Also, they are self-removing, getting washed away with the next rain.

Some areas may have laws against this method. However, it could be highly effective in places it's allowed.

there are loads of ways to promote a website, which ones are the most effective nowadays, lets say, 5 most effective techniques...

I love the directory list, thanks for the information guys.

Is it worth buying traffic for your website? I saw some websites that offer 1,000 hits for $9.99, but I'm not sure how that works.

If it's traffic targetted to your site contents then yes, it might be helpful.

If it's just random/any old visitors then it will be a waste of money.

I think it's difficult for other people to drive visitors that is targetting your content exactly. If you sell T-Shirts for example, how can you be sure all the people they send to your site are wanting to buy a T-Shirt?

Some sites might do a good job, but there will be a lot of cons out there too.

1,000 for $9.99...100 visitors per $1
It's very cheap if you make a decent sale per visitors conversion.
If your least profitable item is $0.50 profit per one item sold, then you need to sell two of those for every 100 visitors to break even.

Please add social bookmarking and rss feed submission also here, and onpage factor as well

The Social Bookmarking an effective way to divert traffic on website. But the one way links is more considered in keyword listing on search engine result page.

Its really a matter of diversifying your promotion and adversiting so as to reach more of your audince. Focusing on just one or two methods would just yield you minimal results IMO.

Thanks for the tips..

this is a very interesting thread. a lot of tips to experiment on

A lot of great tips here. Thanks.

Great tips!

Social bookmarking is also one of the way to promote site and increase traffic......

thanks for all the tips. will try them out.

thanks very much for all the tips here. appreciate this.

ideally, i'd like to try as many of these tactics as possible. i come across lists of ways to promote sites which list as many as a 101 ways, if not more. after all, every little bit helps, especially for people in my position, who're just starting out, and learning how to improve traffic.

tough though to read later or hear later that something you tried won't do much for traffic. heard of someone who spent a large amount of time submitting to blog directories, but really only receiving traffic from one or two. not that that traffic wasn't appreciated, but still, it must've been deflating.

anyway, will give these tips, and those found at linked sites, a go, and see what happens.

We can do Social Bookmarking also.

this is really helpful information

Hello All,

we also concentrate on Onpage optimization technique cause of Yahoo Support this technique more then google.

Thanks for the tips I personally use forum posting and social bookmarking to promote my website, I guess I can try the other ones

Hello,
There are many other way to promote websites Why are you ignore Onpage Optimization. Just using ALT tag, Title, Heading Tag, Sitemap, Url Navigation and many more.

How does emailing VIPs make a difference? Or am I being silly? I am assuming that a VIP is a very important person...?

By VIPs, do you mean Very Important Persons?

There are many way to promote any websites.In whole discussion every one tell about white hat techniques but people also use black hat techniques in web promotion.

Nice guide... Straight and solid!

Hello,
Black Hat techniques also useful to promote any site such as d * Keyword stuffing: Packing long lists of keywords and nothing else onto your site will get you penalized eventually by search engines. Learn how to find and place keywords and phrases the right way on your Web site with my article titled Learn Where And How To Put Keywords In Your Site Pages.
* Invisible text: This is putting lists of keywords in white text on a white background in hopes of attracting more search engine spiders. Again, not a good way to attract searchers or search engine crawlers.
* Doorway Pages: A doorway page is basically a “fake” page that the user will never see. It is purely for search engine spiders, and attempts to trick them into indexing the site higher. Read more about doorway pages.

Networking

Networking can have many benefits to promoting your site. I am always adding people on instant messaging services and talking to people related to my field. By networking and making friends in the business you can learn from each other and help each other which will benefit your site.

The best way to do this is to meet people in forums or on sites related to yours and chat via instant messengers. I usually run 5 different instant messengers that are all filled with business contacts and friends

I've found blogs to be a massive help in getting more traffic, for me as well they have been a great way of interacting with people who left comments asking for more help. Hopefully, in turn these people have gone away and spread the word about my site, I know we have had a few leads come to us in this way.

That's it, i think all the ways are covered by now from this comments to improve your website, one look through all comments and you would be on your way of having a hit website. thanks guys.

Submissions , postings and commentings are best way to promote your website and social bookmarking is also a good way. Its something like people who like your website will bookmark it too and thats the best way to get relevant backlinks

Those Ideas are great, If you can apply most of it to your site, it can definitely help your site to get rank in SE..

Blog comment also part of the web promotion we can use our target keywords and our URL in blog comment. it is very helpful to increase visitor on our site.

1. Title Tag
2. Description Meta Tag
3. Keywords Meta Tag
4. Alt Tags
5. Header Tags
6. Link Text (Anchor Text)
7. Site Map
8. Relevant Inbound Links
9. Your Content
10. Avoid Cheating

Wow... John you do not know what are you posting ! very good comments Dear will you tell me more detail of last three points.

There are much more ways to promote your website but i think so these are some important and old one and really some good ways to promote your site

nobody even mentioned link baiting - thats a killer method if you can pull it off

you didn't mansion onpage factor here for promoting the site...they are very helpful to promote..

We can also do the social bookmarking.

great info NetDebut , thanks for sharing !

Social networking is the new thread for promoting sites. Facebook, youtube, Hi5 has great trend for building large market for sites.

thanks for the effort

There are also other ways links Pay per click marketing.

Community posting is also a traffic magnet..

Nice tips.

The thing that I was havin' a problem with, was "spiffin" up the homepage of my site, to catch peoples eyes. I realized most people like videos, flashing objects, something that will catch their attention. I also went snoopin' around for a different way to get traffic, than everyone else, and found this site "Noobing". I signed up about 2 months ago, and it's doing pretty well. I had to pay a little fee in the beginning, but haven't paid a penny since. Basically pays for itself.

My site isn't for a business, but has to do with Computer Software/Hardware help, and I calculate my downloads, instead of sales. Which I don't see a difference. My thing is trying to get people to notice my site, and realize how much it could help them, so the more people that download, I calculate that as gettin' more "Sales".

Thats really usefull thanks!

I think everyone should use socialmarker.com its the best for social bookmarking. gets you traffic and backlinks

try to submit your site in this list of bookmarking sites ^_^

Don't forget about offline promotions. It's easy to promote websites with business cards, signatures on text messages, paper ads etc. Be creative. Walk around with a t-shirt with your url. SEO can be comprised of more than link building.

thats great very useful tips ..
Thanks

social bookmarking sites also can help us a lot

^Yeah, I read an article yesterday about social media will be crucial for being successful online in 2009. One thing to do is micro-blog about your blog - by posting links to your updates and encouraging people to comment.

Megan, I have to say that that 404 error page is brilliant! What an excellent way to let visitors still feel connected to the site, rather than like they did something "wrong," something that is an "error."

the new stuff will be join some social networking groups like facebook, twitter, linkedin etc. If you have a great article post it various relevant group wall, sure people will click on and read it.

You can also use blackhat seo to promote your site for fast result, but it is very risky.

Make sure your site have quality content before doing all those kinds of promotion..

Yeah, that's the thing I have been discovering more and more. Sure, it's great to promote your site, but more important is that you want to make sure you have a site you believe is worth promoting -- it will make the promotion a lot easier too.

Only high pr directory

Hi,

I would like to share with you the importance of video marketing.

Video marketing is easy, simple, effective and cost effective technique.

All you have to do just upload a video to the most popular sites like Youtube, videogoogle, videoyahoo etc and you can get quality backlinks in short period. Also marketing through videos is more effective.

I think one thing you could incorporate to almost all of the 10 things on the list would be viral marketing. I still don't understand it completely, but as I see it, the gist is that you want to write your content and headlines in such a way that everyone will want to link to it. For example, having a Top 10 List for Twitter is going to get some circulation on twitter and other sites, just because the ingredients in the headline make it viral.

nice sugesstions
thanks

quality content is required. Then the visitors would be back. That's a good way to promote your website.

Hi Sarpras,

Good but the promotion ways have been increased, you need to edit this post and update the list with social bookmarking and video blogging. But Be sure that google penalizing the sites which have site wide links from blogs. So try to have link from blog home page rather from site wide.

And submit your sites to css sites like http://www.didloo.com (its our network site only i am not promoting it you can search and get more sites) to get a free back link.

A nice piece of advice for any novice) As all the means is strictly ordered

Design is important, but it's really just a way to spruce up navigation. It doesn't have to be "spiffy" to work. I keep reading that design isn't as important as people make it out to be...it's the content that needs to be there.

Anyway, these area all great tips. I'm not sure how blog commenting can really translate to big gains in traffic, but I will still try it out.

thank your for your help!~

the best suggestion give is to hire and SEO expert.
those ways mentioned above are all SEO related
and simplest best way to do it, is to let an SEO specialist/expert do all the website promotion for you.

Business cards are another great way to promote a site.

I think when you promote your website, you have to plan what are the best ways that will fit your needs; not everything is possible...

Yeah ! I agree with gadget monkey.

Once the promotional process is started don't stop - keep up the good work.
Repeated exposure of web site's address will keep traffic flowing to your website.

Social bookmarking is my personal favorite, works wonders when used correctly. Sites like Digg are very useful. Just a shame its very time consuming...

RSS Aggregators

{Mod Edit: Please use your signature for personal links, cheers}

There are many methods you can use in promoting a website.
Youe numerated the most used method. great job.
But, you for got to add Social book marking my friend.

i agree these are the best 10 ways to promote any website

Thank you so much for sharing these way of website promotion. Its really very helpful for new webmasters.

Here are my lists to promote a website:

- article submissions
- blog commenting
- book marking
- classified ads
- directory submissions
- forum posting
- link building
- press release
- online groups

There are so many ways to do it but these are good points. For some reasons even after applying all the techniques and methods it just doesn't work sometimes

10 and 4 go hand and hand and are great ways to get unique content on your website to get crawled regularly by the SE's increasing your SERPS, pages indexed, and PR.

Lots of really helpful information in there. Thanks everyone for posting. In particular the links to directory sites.

Cheers
Chris

Another tip from the noob here which I guess hasn't been mentioned in this very long thread is:
Create a GPL contribution, theme, module, translation, icon, graphics or any free software. You'll get free traffics in return. You don't even have to wish anything. It's simply the way nature works, remember Newton III Law.

Your right, I advertise using a majority of those ways and they work fine.

Thanks for all the excellent info and links to follow, the free directory sites are really useful to know even if a bit a tedious when it comes to actually filling in the forms ! But hopefully it will be worth it in the long run.

Social media, like youtube, twitter, social bookmarking sites are also very good ways of generating traffic which sometimes converts to links if they like the content.

I tried some of them. but till now I cant figure out which one works.

Well except that you can also promote your website by submitting them to Bookmarking websites and Pligg sites.

you can find those list free of cost from here.
http://futureseohelper.blogspot.com

Some of the methods below i used to promote a site/blog

Hope this help, i know this is not much but at some point at least you'll guys have an idea especially for those who are new to SEO.

Thank you Sarah. Finally someone hit a key way to drive traffic . No offense but Business Cards are a waste of time .I sell corvettes online and not one or two. I am the "Top Seller Of Corvettes In The Nation" Don't believe it ? Google Me (RICK DANIEL)(CORVETTE KING) 34 million strong. Video Marketing is the BEST way to build your brand online. Another thing I did'nt even hear mentioned is HUBPAGES .They rank a lot faster than social marketing or spam filled Craiglist . You are you wasting time if you aren't using tools like Camtasia to work with. I have made $18k so far just off Michael Jackson passing on Youtube. And sold 4 corvettes to a luxury car rental company in Florida (rapper videos) with youtube marketing .