I realize there are hundreds of different ways of marketing a site. All of them or at least most of them are valid and good. Here's something I've used and found it to be most helpful in my case: 1. Answer questions on http://wiki.answers.com relevant to your site/blog 2. Answer questions on http://www.answerbag.com relevant to your site/blog 3. Answer questions on http://answers.yahoo.com/ relevant to your site/blog (be careful how many posts you make there. Yahoo! Answers is heavily moderated) 4. Post ads on http://craigslist.com mentioning the URL of your site/blog in the title (titles are not "no follow" and are indexed by the search engines) 5. Post ads on http://backpage.com mentioning the URL of your site/blog in the title Thanks!
It depends on what king of site do you have...these sites work best for some sites, while there are better promotion techniques for some other sites!
Great point! It doesn't work for everyone. Especially Craigslist. That's only if you have someone local.
This highly depends on the site niche. For some type of sites, none of these sites are much use. But I haven't tried, probably works good in some cases.
Thanks for sharing but I want to point out many people are "ghosted" on Craigslist because Craigslist has been aggressive against fighting marketers so don't be surprised if you get banned there pretty easily. In terms of yahoo answers you need to reach level 2 before you can post a link, which you can get there pretty fast if you answer 30-40 questions a day or get there a lot faster if your answers are chosen as "the best answer" which gives you 10 points where as regular answers only give 2. I've done this quite a bit, the trick is give long, quality answers and try and do it for fresh questions before the flood of the serial posters comes in, who only post out of boredom etc...