My first website.. need advice on how to advertise!

Hi everyone,
I launched a non-profitable donation website (freepoverty.com) about a month ago and I'm not getting more than 100 users per day. I really want people to be aware of this website and use it.. my budget on advertising is very low!
Any advice? All comments would be greatly appreciated!

Rubina

 

use stumbles , diggs

 

top social bookmarking : digg.com , stumbleupon.com
submit to directories: (high pr)
Link exchange (quality wbesite)
Write articles
Forum posts
blogging posts
submit to search engines (major) and do some SEO for getting high in SE eyes.

and marketing website is a subject which is never endable. If u need usefull links for seo just pm me i will be happy.

 

Hey mate have a try reading some of the tutorials on this website, they are very focused on SEO, Marketing and Promoting websites.

Good luck
Will.

 

StumbleUpon is a great way to get traffic coming in quickly. Non-profit sites are usually pretty easy to get into the various directories out there, and you might consider finding other non-profit sites and offer a link exchange among sites.

 

Thank you all for your responses! I'll try all of your suggestions!

 

Live link: http://www.freepoverty.com

rubina: Hey, nice site, the game is cool.

 

That's a very nicely laid out site with a fairly unique little game. Don't worry if the directories you're submitting to have high PR or not, fact is even PR 0 sites will add a little to your page. Besides, it looks more natural to have a mix of PR results coming in, and that might matter.

Find people that blog about this sort of thing and send them an email, see if they'll give your site a look over and write-up. Blog fodder is always good for them after all.

Are you a registered charity? If so, you might want to put proof of that somewhere. And maybe add a place for people to actually donate through pay-pal.

The cups of water donated thing is a little misleading, I doubt I made you more than a few cents, let alone 140 cups of water.

 

you got a nice site therre. i played around a little and donated 81 cups of water i think. gets easier after few tries

 

Good suggestions here. Writing articles and then submitting them to article directories is a good way to get word out about your site and you pick up a ton of backlinks that help you with search engine placements. You can usually do this for for free or pretty cheap too.

 

Yes, you should get some backlinks for the site. Currently you only have 7 backlinks... You need way more backlinks in order to get more exposure for your site.

 

Directory submissions, specific charity ones probably exist?
Post on charity related forums
Go to your local charity shops and ask to put a poster in their window or give them leaflets to hand out
Facebook groups, make one for the site and join related ones and post a wall post about your site
Make a myspace page for the site
Do sponsored events and tell your local paper about it
Contact charity societies at universities and colleges, they would probably be interested and let their members know about the site.

 

Talk to those non-profits that have sites "feed a child by clicking here" they're based off advertisers. Maybe you could exchange banners, etc.

 

Hey,
I just launched a site to help promote new blogs/sites.
Feel free to sign up.
http://mypromotionblog.com
I hope this will help you

If you have any question feel free to contact me.

 

i submitted your site to digg

everyone digg it!!!

http://digg.com/health/freepoverty_com

 

Digged...I really hope this website becomes famous and can help many people throughout the world.

 

Use StumbleUdon.com -- you will get hundreds of initial visitors, and if they like your website, the stumbles will accumulate and you will get endless traffic from StumbleUpon

(yes, StumbleUDON.com - not a typo)

 

Try social networks like orkut, myspace,face book,
hi5 to bring traffic to your site..

regards
Mudassar

 

I finally created a MySpace page for FreePoverty: myspace.com/freepoverty
Those who have a MySpace profile, please add me!

 

Main sources of traffic can be search engines. But you need to do some SEO.

Build Back Links. Submit articles to article directories.