What is the best way to promote a relatively new site?

I'm looking for a cheap, low-budget way of getting started.

A very cheap (free) way is to join forums related to the sites theme and post useful replies and thread with a signature linked to your site (if the site permits this).

You could always look at link exchanges, but I feel that these are more useful for getting backlinks and PR to your site as opposed to visitors. Paid contextual advertising such as Adwords (Overture, Cliksor and others) will always get you traffic.

I'm about to go down the press release route with the main site - prweb.com can help you distribute your press release and whilst they do it for free apparently a small donation works wonders!

Some people advocate writing articles and then sending them to article hubs like ezinearticles.com- this way your article (and site link) gets added to various other sites and email newsletters free of charge.

It's also worth making sure that the site has been submitted not only to all major search engines but directories such as DMOZ.org (which powers Google Directory amongst hundreds of others).

Im sure others will offer advice too.

Lyndon

You could always advertise in my magazine at a small cost. I only charge £5 for a large coloured ad and my magazine has over 370 subscribed readers worldwide plus many more unsubscribed reading it. The magazine also stays on my website as a download for a whole year. Not bad for a fiver huh

Cheers

Chris

Chris, I would like to place an ad in your magazine that is cheap..have you got the details? Also has anyone tried Solo Ads?

zandyne,that is the million dollar question.The beautiful answer is, a little bit of everything. Every single day. such as foorum posting, blog article writing oofline promotion. the list goes on and on.

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Hi, unfortunately there is no easy answer, Google Adwords will drive immediate traffic but can be costly. Try posting articles with your URL attached, free directories and forums. Get back links to your website to get you indexed quickly.

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Work all of the Markets:

Warm Market - Friends and Family

Cold Market - Leads, Free Ads, Paid Ads, Classifieds, etc.

Meet Market - Every Person you meet in your daily routine

Hope this helps!

Frank

Ive found formus are the way to go.

forums, free directories, emails, articles are free and the "traffic", "classifieds" links below.

I have done well with forum and classified advertising. Placing ads in my local newspaper