Hi, I'm currently working on building up as many links to my new site, AdQuick, which is due to launch next month, and i thought i'd tell you guys about something i tried a few days ago. My website is a place where website owners can buy and sell text ads on their sites. I'm sure you're all familiar with Yahoo Groups? Well i decided to have a look on that website and registered a new account with them. I spent a couple of hours finding groups that related to my website, such as marketing and advertising groups, and then posted messages containing my website address. I wanted to make sure i wasn't coming across as just shamelessly posting a link and saying 'Visit my site'. So i described my website and asked for help in getting new users and so on. I was pretty amazed with the extra traffic i got to my site which hasn't even launched yet, ranging from 100-300 extra people to my site every day over the last 5 days days, from just a few messages posted. I think if i really spend a bit of time on this, it could work out really well. This is just my experience, so hopefully it can work out for you aswell.
That sounds great, particularly if it's a site that will help the people in those groups. I used Yahoo Groups extensively from 2002 to 2004, but haven't done anything there for a while. Thanks for the tip. Cheers Angela