I'm starting a video clip, prank call, pictures, jokes, humor, and all that kind of stuff website. The site is done and I'm ready to begin promoting it. What would be the quickest and most affordable way to let people know this site exists, so they can begin visiting it? I prefer not using PPC because the site is free site and I'd rather pay like a service to go around placing links on sites and setting up link exchanges. Or anything like that. Any tips would be helpful.
A good start is to submit to free dirs... and DMOZ. Try to have original content although that may be hard in your genre, and have plenty of it. Good luck.
Could also try some forums related to humor, see if there are some humor sites that will accept submissions, etc.
find sites that are similiar in content, and use the contact/webmaster email to ask them if they wanna link exchange. you could buy links from here @ DP, ive noticed a few fun/humour related ones lately.
The cheapest way would to simply do link exchanges. That should be able to give your site a lot of exposure. You can also cheaply right a press release to.
You could also make your videos and pictures available for use on other sites/ myspace pages as long as a backlink is placed next to them. Basically how all those music video code websites work.
I also suggest you to build a mailing list offering subscribers to send them notification of site updates. This would mean people returning to your site. In exchange for signup you could maybe offer them something free.