Hi, I created the site www.hottopdeal.com . Do you guys have any good ideas to promote this website? It is a forum for people to post hot deals, freebies, rebates, and coupons. I did research, and found several methods to promote the sites. But I encounter some obstacles, and it is very difficult to attract initial members. I tried bookmarking sites like digg.com. It seems that it generates traffic to my site, but most guests don't signup to become member. I tried to put my site's link in my signature in forums related to hot deals, and I found that all good ones don't allow external link in signature. webmaster-talk.com and digitalpoint.com may be a good place to start... I am trying to get more backlinks to get better pagerank also. I think my website has good SEO. Any better ideas? Thanks.
I am also facing problem with user registration. checked your website it has good layout. Add more content to it. You need to aware internet user about your product as much people aware of it they will start participating. I am trying that but not having much time to market my website. This is one website where you can submit an article / post about your product. This website allow marketing of business not like other article directory. use long tail keywords wisely and submit article. Best of luck..dont loose hope..things will take time.