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Old 07-19-2005, 12:50 PM Other free promotion methods?
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Besides submitting your site to a bunch of free directories online, does anyone else have any good promotion/link building techniques which are free? This is for a new site, so co-op advertising networks are sort of out.
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Old 07-19-2005, 03:17 PM
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Contact other sites that compliments yours and do a newsletter sponsorship exchange. I have done that twice so far and have seen some benefits. Simply contact them and tell them that you would like to list them in your newsletter as a sponsor if they will do the same for you in their newsletter.

With everything you do ... in every email you send out ... with every bill you send out via snail mail ... include your web address everywhere. Get some business cards with something like "Free SOMETHING" and leave them everywhere.
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Old 07-19-2005, 09:00 PM
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You could try these -

Write and submit articles with a link to your site in the author's box
Reciprocal link exchanges
Run a competition, like kline11 on this very forum
Release a press release about your new site or service
Forum signatures
Offer a free product or service
Add a signature to your emails
Design an interesting new tool
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Old 07-22-2005, 12:29 AM
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I have tried using banner exchanges and putting the link in your sig. I have noticed that if you are active on forums that the users may be interested in your site then you can generate a lot of traffic. To one of my sites I get about 50% of the hits from me sigs in various forums.

Oh yeah and pretty much everything that Padawan said above works very well too.
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Old 08-04-2005, 01:15 AM
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Ok buddy, we are, more or less in the same boat for this purpose. There are a lot of ways to promote your site for free, or as little money as possible. Here's my list:

1. Start a blog. I've recently started a blog service (link in sig) and you could start a blog there for free.
2. Submit articles. Ok. Now this is an easy way to get backlinks. Don't expect zillions of visitors 'coz most of the people who visit such article sites are submitters themselves and few are readers, even fewer will read your article and even lesser will click at the link you've posted at the bottom of that article.
3. Offline marketing strategies work very well. Distribute fliers, pin them on notice boards. Your business card is an effective tool for marketing coz people don't generally throw them away easily.
4. Offer discounts for refering. This way people will come to know your product easily and you'll get sales as well.

That's about it. Watch this space if I can strike up some new ideas.
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Old 08-04-2005, 10:28 AM
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Getting hits to your site is easy im getting 10 unique a hour on NuWeb Entertainment. .. just phpaudit is offline, so it makes my site slow .. dam coders enscripting stuff!!
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But the whole problem is getting hits. I'd like to begin with 10 hits an hour but how? NuWeb please tell us how
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Old 08-04-2005, 03:06 PM
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Programs my firend, you cannot do everything online, you need a helper..
This costs, so you got to find one that dont cost, impossible i hear you say, i reply with, yep.. the only ones you can get is ones you pay for.

IN one hour, i submited my site to 40 directorys.. How many you submited to
in 30mins, i submited my site to all search engens.
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I will do this for you useing my app i have got, if you fancy transfer $4 to my paypal for me doing it for you
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Old 08-05-2005, 10:45 AM
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Auto-Submissions are bad!! Don't use them ... and if that is what NuWeb.co.uk is using then I would recommend against it. Some directories and engines will catch that it is an auto-submission and will mark your site as spam. It is better to do it by hand!!
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Old 08-05-2005, 10:55 AM
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Yes Auto-Submissions are bad, this is why i do it manualy, but useing a app as well. this is why i ask for $4 if it was auto i whould do cost.

The app i use ahs massive lists of directorys, you clcik add link on the directory and the app enters the info my itself, i did this 2 days ago, and had yaho, msn and google spider me yesterday. So you cannot say its not affective, as it is

Also with the app, it auto finds affiliate programs, so you can add your link to affilaites on many sites, .. the app is good
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Old 08-05-2005, 11:09 AM
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but useing a app
Would that be Roboform or have you found something that is better for doing directory submissions with?
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Old 08-11-2005, 01:09 PM
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What type of site is it? If you have a decent user base, they are where you might want to look first to help expand traffic. IE...if you are getting 500 daily visitors, encouraging and/or incenting those users to tell their friends about your site, is a good and easy way to spread traffic.

We actually have a product called TafMaster that allows basically powers a "tell-a-friend" link on your website. It gives your users an easy way to share content on your site with other people, and you, as a webmaster, can make money off of the attached advertising. If you are interested, I can definitely give you some more info.
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