Trade links or purchase links with Myspace resource sites, funny video/media sites and arcade sites. These types of sites usually have tons of traffic that would be interested in a good joke site (with unique/fresh content) Don't forget to start/build a mailing list for joke of the day, or something similar.
WHy does everyone keep suggesting trading links and buying links. My experience shows that links are no good when it comes to driving traffic. Sure they help with Google...and PR and blah blah blah...but they are surely ineffecient and most times overpriced. Links are ok for me...as long as they are free. Id go for PPC, Press Release, and Making sure that I have enough content to be considered as better than the rest.
I wouldn't. Dont spend more than $100. 1. The only place you really need to spend money is PRweb.com for $11 a press release, you'll end up with placement in google news. and since people have OPTed IN for google news alerts, you'll automatically be in the news AND in their email inboxes. for $11 each. TIP: use as many relevant keywords in your press release as possible to get funneled into the news filters... in your case, jokes, humor, comedy, entertainment, myspace, etc... think about each subscriber's potential filters. 2. start a blog. submit your jokes and news about corporate strategy in digg.com and technorati. WHY? because doing THIS will get you inbound links AND automatically create a social following. The inbound links get you into google. out of millllllions of competing websites, this is all i had to do and now my site is in page ONE of google under "craigslist alerts," "digg alerts," "myspace alerts," "myspace watcher" etc. ALSO.. a blog at blogger.com is automatically linked to google (google owns it) 3. USE google adsense traffic estimator to select the keywords you want to be googled under. forget yahoo and msn. worthless. then put those keywords in your website in plain html <h1> AND in your title. AND YOUR URL if you can dash separated. Google still treats underscores as a nospace and dashes as a space... (see google employee matt cutts blog) WHY? too long to explain 4. Put ZNITCH on your website. It lets your visitors automatically get RSS or Email alerts as soon as you update your site or add to your blog. theres a simple javascript code that functions as a alert/alarm to bring readers BACK to your site at http://znitchit.blogspot.com 5. Spend the rest of your $900 on a rubyonrails programmer that can make a VOTING / Community System on your website it will add community and functions to your site that no OTHER joke site will have see netscape.com for an example 6. Find HUMOUR forums and become a valuable member of each forum. they will eventually all be in your community too if you are humble and not SALESMANY 7. Be prepared to push your site in forums and other blogs for about 2 years. when i first started, it took about a month to being a leader in my industry, now, in older industries, it takes months and years. Agreed. link trades are worthless. google reads link CONTEXT so if you get a JOKE link from a Avation website.. that link is worthless. do pr. and spend time on 1. functionality 2. content done! payper click is expensive... i NEVER use it... i used to... but the same money spent on a cheap or free PR website goes a hundred times further.