You are starting a webmasters forum and you're asking how to promote a website...? My favorite idea for something like that is to go to all the major forums and start a thread that says "Have you guys seen site.com?" How do they afford to give away all this great stuff. I love it Or something slightly more clever and sneaky edit: you straight stole all the categories from digitalpoint...
It seems that if you are getting traffic then most of them are returning visitors. This is because they already know about your site and probably like using it. Now you are not getting many new visitors because they don't know about it and will not if you have no links or advertising on other sites. This obviously means that you need to increase your sites exposure on the web by getting it out there. Do SEO, Article marketing, PR's, link exchanges, etc.
Thanks for all the tips. Iam already working with some of the given tips. More suggestions expecting.
Search engine submissions Social bookmarking Directory submissions Chain emails Forums Link exchanges Bloggers RSS/XML submissions Groups Newsgroups I think those are the steps if you wana targeted traffic then Search engine is the best !!
This is the perfect list of activity to market a website. Here's my rating for the same, as per their success ratio... Social networks - 6/10 Social bookmarking - 10/10 Forums - 10/10 Link exchanges - 10/10 Bloggers - 10/10 Chain emails - 6/10 Directory submissions - 8/10 Search engine submissions - 10/10 RSS/XML submissions - 8/10 Groups - 4/10 Newsgroups - 4/10
Hmm i suggest you make articles for your site too, do some link baiting, there is some info with the links i provided. http://www.jimwestergren.com/link-bait/ sponsor some small web events if you can, posting your link to top sites will also help. i guess most marketing strategies are already posted.goodluck i guess.
You could follow this little plan: Join some yahoo groups and start posting useful advice. Then after you have at least 10 posts in each, message the groups offering a solution to 10 biggest questions (or whatever is the most ongoing). Then when people go to get their ebook, have a squeeze page capturing their email. In the ebook plug the forum as a great place for webmasters to hang out. Remember that unless you have some sort of personality in all of this, you'll most likely fail. IT HAS TO BE UNIQUE. You can then use the emails you collected to send great teaser info and link to the forums.
An exceptional way to do marketing online while maximizing your budget is engaging in cross promotional advertising. When looking for those products to cross promote with you will want to look for those that will compliment your product, for example if you sell printers you will want to cross promote with a company that sells printer ink, paper, etc. And this is because you will not be competing against another company you will be enhancing both of your products at no cost for advertising. This will provide convenience for your customer because they will have all they need on your website.