10 ways to promote your website

they are more than 10 ways tro advertise your website.

I agree.

For example, you missed RSS/ATOM feeds, email signatures, forum signatures, external marketing such as mousemats, coffee cups etc.

Theres tons of ways to market your website.

yes, that too, they are so many things to promote your website. i found rss feeds a good and easy way to promote your website.
any directory u know where i can submit my website?

take a trip to http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php

they list a lot of high pr directories there and details of charges etc. Lots of high pr freebie directories to submit to

i find the best way to market is death threats just grab some random guy on the streets and tell him ur gonna bash his kids if he dont go to ur site

a more extreme approach (and i find it the most rewarding) is carving your site url into the foreheads of unsuspecting people with a compass.

I found that making stickers suitable for cars is quite good, your friends will put them in their cars if those stickers look cool

Of course there's more than 10. There's an infinite number. Sarpras was just trying to make a quick list of some of them to help newbies out, I'm sure.

I've released a free ebook on the subject myself. (available here). Here's some brief highlights. Of course, the effectiveness of each of these varies with the intended audience of your website.

- Start an email newsletter
- Start a paper newsletter
- Have a giveaway
- Place a newpaper ad
- Include your URL in your email and forums signature
- Write articles in your field of expertise

That's just a few of them I can remember offhand.

I've already read your ebook
not much of a ebook, more like a brochure imo.

1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10... Those i didnt do to promote >.<

About point no 9 - Which sites give free advertising?

sarpras wrote: 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

Those are the ones that I have done as well as post exchanging which works too,.

Having a giveaway of offering something for free brings a lot of people to your site. It also opens up a whole new collection of website that you can advertise on - freebie and sweepstakes sites. If your website is interesting enough, you might just get some business

hello...

5 6 7 9 work just fine for me and also adwords isnt to bad just a little on the expensive side.

thank you
malcolm

I agree with timjpriebe ! I think even one can sumit the site to free directories like dmoz. Can i have list of other directories ?

hello...

Markov you want Quality directories to submit your sites to.. then here knock yourself out http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=seo-friendly.php

Every site here is SEO friendly so you wont waste your time adding to directories that use Harmful redirects or arent SEO friendly.
If a directory doesnt have his seal of approval its probably not worth submtting to.

Here is one more list that shows New directories as they are coming out daily. http://www.directorycritic.com/ he is another excellent source of knowledge for link building.

enjoy

thank you
malcolm

I think blogging and reciprical links are great ways of boosting your SERPs as well and hence promoting your website. I noticed that podcasts regularly bring in 100s of active listeners of you know what you're doing.

Nice discuss....

Rules changes everyday.. there are new things for online promotions are generated each day...

have to be updated everytime

thanks

Many people 'market' there website and still don't get many results...

The key lies in the website result, it has to look good and offer something different. Most successes on the internet are due to viral growth/word of mouth. Create a site that is worth talking about and you are half way there.

some good ideas thanks

Thank you for the tips.

I'd say blogging. Content creation and linkbait is key these days. The rest are mostly low-quality methods. Some, like telling everyone you know and forum posting could work if you do it right (and you know the right people).

what is linkbait

Linkbait is content written with the intent of getting linkbacks. There are certain types of content that get linked to a lot, and the experts have ways of writing stuff that people will be more likely to link to. So things like top 10 lists, for example, would be described as linkbait. Often these aren't the best quality articles in terms of providing new knowledge to the community, but they are the sorts of things a lot of people will share, including linking to them and posting them on social bookmarking sites.

Hey NetDebut ! Thanx for the long list of methods.

Article Submission and blog provides one way link to your site. Please post your idea for generating more and more one way link

These are great tips. We also have generated more income, by getting involved in reselling, with Intermedia.Net's private label exchange hosting: http://www.intermedia.net/resellers/resellers.asp

Hi, NetDebut, that's really a very useful list of methods, can you explain what you mean by Error Pages, Missing pages, Wrong domain names as ways to advertize your site?

Use ful informations......But much confused.Which one i can follow???????

Selvam, its not that you can follow only one of the methods but you can utilize other methods too at a single time. These are all efficient and helpful ways to promote a particular site.

I just built a new 404 page for my blog with a search option and links to my best posts and my most recent posts (still need to tweak the layout on that a bit!). Much better than the default! I think it's always good to give people some direction when things like this happen. This helps them to find what they need on your site. Otherwise they're just going to turn around and go back.

XpLiCiT.OrG.uK;201888 wrote: i find the best way to market is death threats just grab some random guy on the streets and tell him ur gonna bash his kids if he dont go to ur site

a more extreme approach (and i find it the most rewarding) is carving your site url into the foreheads of unsuspecting people with a compass.

amen brother

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and megan has a good point contacts are really important in geting your name out there

thanks for the info. but i think there's more than 10 of it..

million thanks to you all for the great discussion, really helped me a lot. It really helped me a lot.
Keep up the good work!!

sarpras;201773 wrote: 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

Thanks Lot sarpras. I have not down all 10 ways.

Writing Linkbait for Social Networking sites is my favourite form of promotion at the moment, it takes patience but really pays off when it works

will try and used this 10 steps and see if i can bag some traffic

Thanks a lot guyz. Some really work!

good domain is the best promote your website

I never tried emailing VIP's

Yes, nice ways to promote a website if you have time. There are many other ways that can work out nicely. Today I was reading on a forum, that a guy bought a few pr7 and 8 links, he invested about $2000. His page rank jumped to 7. Then we sold links and got $5000. Bonus $3000.

The idea is that you have to have money from some place to be able to promote your website(s). I don't think anybody will sell his house to promote a website.

sarpras;201773 wrote: 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

yes....... getting good back links, Article submission, are good

1. Post newsgroups ---I didn't try.
2. Press releases --- I think is not easything
3. Email to VIPs --- maybe spam
4. Article submission --- where should I submitt
5. Reciprocal Links ---It's work well
6. Forum Posting --- I have done ,but not a good way
7. Directory submission ---yes,good method,but only little directory have good effect
8. Tell everyone with whom you communicate --- no way
9. Post ads to free advertising website --- maybe no one will see it
10. Blogging --- just in part time

What about PPC?

I love the idea of posting in forums! serves it purpose well!

Very informative thread. There are really more ways to promote a website, online and offline options. What's important is that you know how to aim your adveritising at yout target market.

Good post, but there are many more ways to promote your site.

Yeah, I agree with your statement.
Add few topic too:Use of user generated site content site.eg: Digg
Yahoo answers.
Google Base.

IMO marketing your website start from your content. Providing useful and relevant content in your niche is very crucial. Here are my top 5 picks:

My top 5 are :

1. Great content - be it information, service, products... providing relevance and usefulness gives you higher chances of making a visitor into a customer
2. Forum and blog posting on relevant niche - you participate constructively and learn new things while promoting your site via signature.
3. Pay-Per-Click - done properly, best at getting target traffic faster on a direct marketing approach to your potential clients.
4. Targeted Link backs - another premium way of getting the right traffic.
5. Article marketing - useful and relevant articles to your niche is a nice way of link baiting.

its great but direcory posing will help bcz onc time only, search engine will not read i think

Hi all - sorry but here is a newbie question. Can anybody give the 6 year old defination of rss feeds? What are they? how do they work? and I am guessing they have something to do with promoting???

And what is the div between targeted links and just plain links???

I agree with your statement. this points helps alot in promoting your site.

I guess great content is the most important thing on the list.

Scuba Steve wrote: 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

Interesting, I'll go and write that ebook right now, and not to forget controversy while doing it! Lol @ create your own SEO tool... best one I've ever heard. I'm gonna sue yahoo! tomorrow for the publicity.

Thanks for the link lol.

A little bit. Most of those are low quality/low return ideas. You'll need to be more creative to get real traffic and also put a lot of work in to properly optimize your site and create content worth linking to.