My site (CollegeSoup) is a free resource for high school and college students, on aspects of college life. There's a lot of articles, and we're going to put up a forum soon, but i'm not sure how to market this site, get the name out there? anyone w/ ideas? i'm trying forums on related topics, article submissions, craiglist, etc. but not getting results... in terms of traffic
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