its been 2 months my image hosting site is up, i did soemthing like social bookmark and submit it to 500 directory, but seems not enough traffic. so how do i market image hosting site? any idea, tips? would be very helpful, thank you my site url: Image hosting
Try making page with popular images and add to other image sites with link to your site. If you find sites that allow link to site that posted image you will get some good free traffic.
It looks nice. Promote the site and make it "better" than all the others out there. I mean, there are too many of them image hosting sites now unless you can make it reasonably amazing.
It takes a lot of time and effort. I have a couple of Img hosting sites and it took a good amount of time to start getting decent traffic - think in terms of about a year. The best thing you can do is to do the following things in order! Do on-page optimisations to give your site a fighting chance to get decent traffic. Get your advertisers lined up so you can maximise the returns when you do get traffic. Promote - best way is by posting at a lot of forums - post a thumbnail that links back to the full-sized image at your site. DO this on a regular basis - say daily for a month and you will start getting some site visitors AND traffic. Be prepared. Image hosting can use a lot of bandwidth for fairly small returns. Think 100+gig/mth bandwidth and don't be surprised if you only make $20/mth from it.
Create a script that will allow users to upload right from your signature and that would be cool On the other hand you can also pay bloggers to write articles regarding your site, and or purchase forums signatures. Another idea would be to upload torrents and add your url in the nfo haha best of luck EDIT: Nice site by the way I will use it sometimes I'm normally a photobuckett type of guy