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Advertising. If you have good, original content, you don't need to advertise. Tell the sites that should be interested in your site about it, and if they think their visitors will be interested, they'll link to it. Don't do link exchanges, though.
Don't do link exchanges, though.
Why not?
Relevant and quality link exchanges can help a lot a new website. I would say to the op to exchange links only with sites with good, no duplicated content that makes your visitor's experience a better one.
Setting up an automated link exchange system, cranking out thousands of emails, and requiring them to link to your site within x days or you'll take the link down--that's quite another.
I was being overly terse. It's that second kind of link exchange, which those who aren't experienced can get seduced into doing using someone's software, that should be avoided.
I haven't promoted a website before, how do I do that?
You have a lot to learn but you'll find the answers at [webmasterworld.com...]
maybe start with this thread
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It's not rocket science at all. My best piece of advice is to balance #4 as best you can and don't get stuck on any one of them or you will waste huge amounts of time.
The number one tip I would give is try to get stories and media (likes of stills) up before other sites. Then drop an email to sites like darkhorizons, aicn etc (any prime source site) with the news or link to the new media.
If they run it then you will get a bunch of traffic from them and other sites will also pickup on it. Keep doing it and users will start to come direct.
With reviews you should try and get your reviewers accredited to Rotten Tomatoes, they will then list your review. Though news is 100times better for traffic than reviews, in my experience.
Also get an IMDB pro account and add any relevant info on your site to their links section in the appropriate movie.
Finally stick with it and obsess, the movie sector is very competitive and relativly low value...at least until you start getting targeted camapaigns from studios...which can take a long time. Maybe target a movie niche as well...seems to have worked well for some.
[edited by: FattyB at 1:19 am (utc) on Sep. 13, 2006]
Isn't it funny how low value the entertainment sector is in adsense evethough they spend millions of dollars in other mediums?
Another tip I would give is to write up some article/reviews and submit them to article sites. Make sure your author block has a link back to your site. Some feel it's better to write an article just for the article dirctories so you don't get wacked for duplicate content.
It is also worthwhile to get some links from wikipedia pointing to your site.
I don't know much about the setup of your site but you may want to make sure there is some sort of a blog component.
Sign up for an account at stumbleupon and give the thumbs up to your own sites. I get pretty good traffic from stumbleupon.
You may want to consider creating some video reviews and posting them at YouTube with your url in the beginning and end of the video.
Become active in celebrity/movie forums with your link in your signature.
Above all keep on cranking out content so you start to attract natural links.
