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1. Free Classified Sites : Place ads in free classified sites and you can receive traffic instantly. You should try to place atleast 10 free responsive classifieds with appropriate category. One excellent resource is Craigslist, a free online community which has expanded into many different cities.
2. JOb Site Listings : Post ads in job sites and you can receive decent amount of traffic. You can search free jobsites where you can post your job ads.
3. Directory Listings : Place ads in free directory and that will help to increase your PR and traffic. Just search google/yahoo and collect free directory to place your listings. It is one time submission and track the sites where you have placed for your site.
4. Write Articles : Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your website address in the by-line. If you write good content,your articles will be published and many readers who like your article will go on to visit your website.
5. Link Exchange : Exchange Links with other websites will not only increase your traffic but also increase page rank on Search Engines and that will ultimate good listings in the major search engines like google, MSN or yahoo.
5. Joint Venture : Arrange a Joint Venture partnership with List owners and webmasters.
6. Signature : Add your website address to your email signature. This way, every time you send an email, you'll be promoting your website.
7. Home Page Link Exchange : Home page link exchange is the good way to get more traffic and PR.
8. Business Cards : If you plan to have anything printed up, put your web address on it. You can print your URL on business cards, stickers, leaflets, etc.
9. Forums : Add your web address to your forum profile signature. Every time you post or respond to questions your ad will be displayed. If you post good content in forums, people who read your threads will also check out your website.
10. Blogs : Add a blog to your site and Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog and attract new visitors to your web site.
Use the above technique to receive instant traffic of your site and that will dramatically increase your sales.
[edited by: mona at 7:54 pm (utc) on Aug. 5, 2005]
[edit reason] no urls, thx! [/edit]
If this was an honest attempt to help others I apologize, but it seems obvious that this was not the intent of this post.
Free Classified Sites
These don't work! Full of ads, people posting them and not interested in viewing. I wouldn't even visit one of these sites!
JOb Site listings
Untargeted for promotion needs - unless your site IS job-related.....
Directory Listings
Can be useful if listing with an authority site in your niche, but mostly widely copied and ineffective for ROI.
Write Articles
Yes we know this is free, but you'll spend your life writing them to get the free links.
Link Exchanges
hmmmmm, from my experience, just not worth it. You'll get tons of mails from unrelated webmasters begging for links, as they are so desperate.
Joint Venture Signature
Yeah right, like you'll get Yahoo or Google knocking down your door to do a partnership. But if you like affiliates......
Home Page Link Exchange
Might as well whistle and spot flying pigs
Business Cards
Yawn, so basic, and yet so ineffective a mass marketing tool I've ever known.
Forums
hmmmm, wasted time and effort. No good for mass or fast results.
Blogs
Why the hell would I want one of these?
Whats the trick then :: most of thoses seem fine; is there somthing im missing?
Personally, if these efforts posted in the initial post do not work, im sure im not the only one that wants to know what does. But.. I guess that will never be disclosed, and of course this is not a site called "web masters world" and of course this is not a community created to lend a helping hand to other web masters by sharing knowledge. ;-P guess we are all looking for answers int he wrong place. Im not asking for the blue print, just a hand written road map
