Promoting your website should be your main priority once you've setup your website so you can start getting traffic to it.
There are generally three ways on how to promote your own website; pay for traffic, borrow traffic and generate traffic.
The first option of is where you use advertisement like Google Adwords to promote your website. You can also buy banner ads from other sites that are related to yours, or at places where your target market hangs out.
The next option to draw traffic in is to borrow traffic. You just need to have someone who is already getting a lot of traffic to send some of it your way. For example, making guest posts to popular blogs, or having affiliates to send you traffic from their email list.
The final option would be generating your own traffic. You do this by making it easy for others to find your website through the search engines, social bookmarking or social networking.
The first thing that people do when they want to look up a website is to do a keyword search in a search engine like Google. Then the websites that would seem relevant appear and be sorted by popularity.
There are several ways to increase the popularity of your website to earn the top spot of a search queries. Make use of the social websites that are available like Facebook, Delicious, Twitter, Youtube and Digg.
The aim is to spread your links as much as possible into these websites. The wider you spread your links across the Internet, the more chance you will be able to catch some traffic. You can even make use of article directories to promote your website.
The best thing about generating your own traffic is that it's free and you will continue to get traffic for a long, long time. However, this method takes time and effort.
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