If you wish to start a site, it is a fact that you have to advertise. And immediately most of you think of advertising on search engines like msn, google, and yahoo. While this is a great way to do so, this approach can be expensive. In some cases around $100, 300, even 500 dollars or more to see any real results.
This article focuses mainly on free advertising at its finest, from social sites to classified, you will find that putting all of these together (w/ a site people want and/or need) the results are as good or better then paying a search engine for 2 or three keywords. Lets begin.
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES- Most of you know about social bookmarking sites and what they are. But, lets get everyone up to speed. Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. At else that’s the definition Wikipedia gives us. Your sites like Delicious, CiteULike, Connotea, Digg, Diigo, Faves, and Furl just a fraction of the growing 140 know site. Get to know these because there the most important.
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES- Social network site focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact. This includes sites like Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, BlackPlanet, Friendster, Habbo, and LinkedIn.
DIRECTORIES- These are good for any reasons but we won’t go into details about it all. Just know putting your site here you can increase your site visibility.
ARTICLE DIRECTORIES- These are exactly what they sound like a directory of articles. Use these to advertise new content that can help others. LIST: articledirectory.com, goarticles.com, isnare.com, articlesalley.com, articlebasement.com and buzzle.com.
VIDEO HOSTING SERVICE SITES- Youtube, Break.com, Buzznet, Crackle, Current, Dailymotion, EngageMedia, Google Video, and Metacafe are good sites to advertise your site. You can make a commerial or a short tour of your site.
PRESS RELEASE SITES- A written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value. That even sounds like a good place to advertise your site. Here are my favorites: prbuzz.com, 24-7pressrelease.com, and pr.com.
SOCIAL COMMENTING- Commenting on other peoples sites in your niche offers both networking potential and a chance to advertise to others looking for exactly way you offer.
FORUMS- What is a forum? An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user-generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as Web forums, newsgroups, message boards, discussion boards, discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, simply forums. That said you should know many many people go to these forum everyone day. These is a great opportunity to show of your sites so look into it.
CLASSIFIED ADS SITES- A form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals, e.g. free ads papers. Great for advertising a service or product. My favorites: Craigslist, Kijiji, and usfreeads.com.
