I advertise in magazines and forums for now. I'm in the same boat you are -- trying to figure out how to drive more traffic to my site. One thing I've learned though: often times people won't visit your site until they see your add several (if not many), times.
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Link articles on article publishing sites are better than adverts. They don't cost anything, they make additional adsense revenue and they run forever. I've articles that I published three years ago which are still sending traffic...
Forums, article marketing and Adsense. Also make sure to create a Twitter and Facebook page for your website. Use the "#" symbol to rank on topic in Twitter. eg. #JobsinAmerica or Well done #TeamSA. Register your domain for longer than a year as it improves SEO.
I've been using the digitalpoint CPC text ads with decent results, working on writing a couple different ads with different keywords to test out different ads. I might as well thrown away $200 when I used adsense, and facebook sponsored stories are worthless too.
i think forum is the great place for advertise website.because most of the forum allows to attach signature and through this signature you can put your website link.