How do I promote a new website?

Hi,

There are many many ways to promote your website. Some of it depends on what kind of website you have.

1.) Use social sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and YouTube. Just make sure you have great content.

2.) Find forums that are related to your site. For example, if your website is about online gaming, join the gaming forums and become a part of the community there. Then you can promote your website in your signature. As long as you share good information (don't just spam), people will click your signature link.

3.) SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This is how your site will naturally be found in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. You can learn the basics of SEO from reading in the section of this forum or check out SEO blogs such as SearchEngineLand.Com.

They actually have a basic guide at: http://searchengineland.com/guide/what-is-seo

On the other hand, you don't have to do SEO yourself. If you have money to invest, you can hire professionals to do this for you. Even if you choose to hire someone, it still helps for you to have basic knowledge of SEO because that will help you hire the right person.

4.) Pay-Per-Click Advertising - Each of the search engines, as well as Facebook, have their own paid advertising programs. You can do a Google search to learn more about Pay-Per-Click. Honestly, this is not something I would recommend for beginners. It really depends on what type of website you have. If you don't know what you are doing, you can lose a ton of money from this.

There are tons of other ways to promote, but I'll leave room for other people to chime in

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