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jnights from Las Vegas (Contact Member) -

What techniques do you find to be most effective when promoting your sites?

I use a combination of the following:

1) Google adwords

2) Advertising on other sites

3) Posting on related forums with the site in my signature

Does anybody have any other techniques to add?

Comment #1 RiverQueen from Anywhere You Want (Contact Member) -

It really depends on the type of site you are trying to promote. If it is a poker forum then you want to get involved in affiliate programs, if it is general merchandise then you need to get your banner on other people's sites. Go to site that you "think" may be interested even though they are not related and offer them an affiliate promotion.

Also go to sites that are "similar" and offer to trade banners. The more sites showing your banner the more chance of attracting people.

Comment #2 PokerPrincess from Hogstown, The Universe (Contact Member) -

Well it definitely depends on where you are in your promotions. What kind of promotions you are already doing and which ones seems to be getting the feedback that you a looking for.

You also have to take into consideration the type of site you have and from there you can decide which is the best for your. Find someone with the knowledge of the topics you are looking to promote and pick their brain. This is called networking. You help them they help you and you both come out winners.

Without more details on the type of site you are talking about it is a little difficult to get into specifics.

Comment #3 Ben Scudder from Kansas (Contact Member) -

Jnights yes people forget they can be their own affiliate. I do check out advertising prices on other sites but sometimes the domain owner or site master has stars in their eyes and wants unheard of amounts. But for a big splash launch it might be worth it.

Comment #4 nygirl from see username (Contact Member) -

Depending on the type of site you are promoting I would suggest going to forums that cater to that group. Like others have mentioned get involved in a network and use affliate links.

Comment #5 GringoBob from La Tigra Costa Rica (Contact Member) -

if you try to find common ground for apartments here in Costa Rica, all you get is high priced vacation rentals and we wish to appeal to retired low profile types of individuals (like ourselves) - Craigslist helps but we have trouble finding other forum sites

open to suggestions

Comment #6 Wilbur Corncob from stuck in the spiderweb (Contact Member) -

I would search for blogs about Costa Rica and make relevant comments and as an offhand metion your site.

Comment about the POST. Don't just promo your site.

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Comment #8 michel (123.239.85.98) -

Website promotion consists of so many things. You can't rely on only one technique to promote your site over the internet. There are millions of sites and you are trying to prove that your site is the deserving one to get to first position in SERP.

Now following are the techniques which are most effective when they are used together in balanced way.

Onsite Optimization (Weightage: 5)

Offpage Optimization (weightage: 4)

following are in descending order of importance:

Article

Blog

Free Hosting sites

SBM

Directory

Forum signature

I have lots of example in which a site is comming in ranking only by either Onpage or by Offpage.

Most important factor google take into consideration is Internal linking structure of any website...

These are not the theoritical things, i have the experience in implementing all these things and I have succeded in it.

Thank you.

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Comment #9 jane bush (124.124.20.146) -

Go for social media optimization... great way to generate more traffic...

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