45 way to promote your site for free

If you're launching a new site, or new content then offcourse you need to promote your web site to get good business but you dont have money to advertise then here is a way to promote your site to get free traffic

01. write an introduction and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.

02. Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.

03. Create a MySpace account and use it to publisise your site.

04. Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you're really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.

05. Create a Technorati account and "claim" your blog.

06. Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here.

07. Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.

08. Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.

09.Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds.

10.Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner, Squidoo, Feedboy, Jordomedia, FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint

11.Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.

12.Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.

13.Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.

14. Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here for more info.

15.Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.

16.Tell your friends about your site. It's free advertising init.

17.Speel cheek your stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.

18.Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.

19.Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.

20.Don't worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*

21.Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.

22.Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.

23 Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.

24. Advertise your site on Craigslist. It's free, relevant and localised.

25.Do NOT use frames.

26 Submit your site to DMOZ.org. It may take time, but it's worth it.

27 Create an XML sitemap of your site and submit it to Google.

28 Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.

29 comment on flicker photo

30 Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you're a publish, make some cash!

30 On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.

31 Send out a newsletter!

32 Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.

33 Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).

34 Don't pay people to submit your site to search engines. It's a waste of money.

35 YouTube and Google Video are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.

36 Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.

37 Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.

37 If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add "As Seen on TV" to your site!

38 Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.

39 Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it's not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.

40 Learn about CSS. It's the new HTML.

41 Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.
Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.

42 Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid

43 If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a "Skip Intro" link.

44 Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.

45 Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.

 

Nice list

on your list for #17 I guess you did not use spell check

You can also do this which i have done print a copy of the website hang it in super markets bulletin boards laundry marts I did that a few years back for my first site which I did not no anything about promoting and I was able to get quite a few visitors from that.

 

Good list but you might want to check the above line again.

 

Where to find the large breasted lady?

Any place you recommend?

 

i am very very sorry for wrong typing on 17 and 29 no because english is not my mother language so that wrong spell

 

#17 is a joke guys They purposely spelled it wrong.

 

you can post to blogs and get free pr too. here is a list of free pr backlinks: http://pr1forfree.weebly.com

 

This looks like a list from an ebook I read a while ago.....just can't remember the name of it.

 

Yea I think 17 is a joke...very good list btw

 

There is nothing more effective than this.

Nothing.

 

some tips I' using already. thanks for the sharing

 

I agree number 17 is a joke to see if the reader was paying attention.

 

Very good list. Really useful.

 

its a nice post.why do you all criticize her when even non of you can write this great article
just wanna say keep it up ma girl

 

I like number #17. I surely will splel chekc my stie.

 

nice list. thanks for sharing

 

nice tips... will note this up... great share!

 

Great tips. I will try some of this for free traffic.

 

Cool tips, for all these days, I just try to get more backlinks but now only I realize that there are more than it... thanks man

 

Great list -- #17 is cute - good way to see if we are paying attention