101 ways to promote your website without costing $$

Lets make a list of ways to promote your website. I hope together we can get 101 ideas.
Web gurus here to you chance to make an impression.

I got only 4 , please list yours:

1. Have a content rich website
2. Submit to the search engines
3. Submit website to lists/directories including open directory
4. Use discussion forums (including Digital point) to promote your website
5. ….list yours

Thank you

 

One way which isn't exactly the best way is to make a small widget for Macs, and a konfabulator for widget for PC to support your site (something as simple as an rss reader etc).

so umm...

5. Create a widget

 

what is widget here? Mambo?

 

1-Write Articles and Submit them to different site.
2-Write comments in popular Blogs.
3-Posting in Groups

 

Okay.. Just out of the top off my head..

1. Get a great idea
2. Write a businessplan to support your idea
3. Investigate your competitors.
4. Think of ways to get the attention when the website is launced.
5. Start thinking about a website layout, navigation, topics and more content related (rich content offcourse)
6. Select a design for your website (tip, look at competitors for idea's)
7. Start programming, use w3.org as a basis and program in <div> style (css) use http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp and http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ for more resources
8. When building think about which way you want to go with your website (see also business plan)
9. Write good articles for your website, and let the website grow and grow each day with new content.
10. When you're website is finished, promote it via http://www.prnewswire.com/ and http://prweb.com/, now your off to a good start.
11. Start submitting your website to free web directories, check this thread for more info. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=25101
12. Write various articles and submit them to the free article directories, search the forums for various article submit services, useually to be found here. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=60
13. Discuss about your website in various webmaster forums, they can give good advise about your website.
14. Use a rss feed in your website and submit it to http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home and other rss resources
15. Create a blog and post about your findings/progressions with your website.
16. Keep updating and promoting your website.
17. Get relevant links and build links using various keyword phrases for your market.
18. Create a 'hook' for your website, something that people will return for at your website.
19. Get more links using for instance the co-op network
20. Set up a banner campain, advertise your website via banner networks
21. Create an adwords/overture account and get traffic through ppc.
22. When you hit the sandbox thing, just keep on working updating your website.
23. Follow these steps by Brett Tabke http://www.searchengineworld.com/tips/doit.htm
24. And again, create more fresh and new content.
25..

 

a widget is like a little app, created using javascript, html and css.

go to http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/ to find out more information. (you need a mac to run dashboard)

 

25. Let your friends and relatives know about your new website through emailing and ask them to inform more people who might be interested about the new site.
26. Give positive feedback to software, product or site you used when building your new website, they will love to link back to a good quality site.

... up to you, guys ...

 

WhatiFind's recommendation in his point #23 is sketchy in 2006. It's mostly around Metatags and talks about SEs like Excite, Infoseek and Altavista.

Valuable stuff in the day, and to be sure there are a few things in there that are still good advice, but if you (the reader) don't know how to separate the wheat from the chaff regarding SEO, I think this piece is best avoided.

 

good post.

 

awesome post, whatIFind Thank you so much for your post especially on the prweb.com

 

Great list by WhatiFind

 

Put links to your websites in your signature in all forums you post to

 

Just to clarify, my above comment was directed at one specific item in WhatIFind's post. Otherwise his advice is solid.

 

This is one of things I do:

1 - Do keyword research onto a specific topic that I enjoy.
2 - Register a domain that matches a keyword phrase from the above research performed (i.e. widgetsforsale.com).
3 - Setup a blog on the domain with WordPress.
4 - Setup a good sized ping list (I have 50 in my blogs).
5 - Publish a new piece of content 3 times/week on the blog.
6 - Once you have about 20-30 posts, spend a day doing directory submissions. The reason for waiting is that some directories won't accept sites that appear to be under construction.
7 - While waiting for the directories, continue posting 3 times/week.
8 - By now you should be having a casual steam of visitors into the blog. Now it's time to fix the default design, put in a niche template that works well with your content.
9 - Put in adsense or affiliate program support into your blog so you can slowly generate revenue from it.
10 - POST POST POST! By this point the search engines will probably be probing your site, up your posting rate to 5 times/week.
11 - Google Update! Google comes by and gives you some PR. Wohoo! No do a major link exchange campaign for 2-3 days solid. Do nothing but look for links.
12 - You should be touching your site on a daily basis. Every 2nd day make a post. Every other day spend 30 mins looking for links and directories and other places to promote your blog. Even if you only find 1 link in that 30 mins, you are being productive.
13 - You should have a good stream of people coming back to your site now. Setup various syndication feeds on it (i.e. Yahoo, etc) to go in addition to the RSS feed that wordpress offers.
14 - Success! Your site is now fairly popular and getting you the occasional sale/adclick. Keep it up. You can probably slow down on the link development, as you're probably receiving link requests from other websites by now.

When you post, make sure you post something INTERESTING. Otherwise people won't have reason to return to your site.

 

Add a forum was mentioned, but its worth mentioning again.
This way, you have on topic, relevant content added daily by everyone in the forum, not just yourself!

 

Adding a forum, though, is (my experience, YMMV) a pantload of extra work. Far more than just creating a few new sites.

I think it takes a particular kind of person to start up a forum from scratch.

Although if you are that sort, I'm sure it could be great.

 

is spamming emails with your ads a good marketing method?

 

Are you joking

 

im a new bie and dunno much about marketing , but i thought spamming emails is a good marketing technique, or else wat is the use of those opt-in lists , i know spamming is illegal

 

So you know spamming is illegal but you thought it was a good marketing technique?