101 Free Ways To Promote Your Website

By
Colin
– 02/01/2010Posted in: Featured, internet marketing, seo, Social Media

Looking for some free ways to promote your new website?  Here are 101 completely free resources that you can use to promote your site.  These resources range in scope from the logical to the completely illogical, but all are free (or require standard household goods), and all can be used for website marketing.

  1. Start a Twitter account
  2. Create a Facebook page
  3. Create a Facebook Application
  4. Create a LinkedIn group
  5. Learn SEO
  6. Submit your site to DMOZ
  7. Start a blog
  8. Write guest posts on popular blogs in your industry
  9. Answer questions on Yahoo answers
  10. Answer questions on LinkedIn answers
  11. Answer questions on Answers.com
  12. Submit articles to Ezine Articles
  13. Submit articles to ArticleBase
  14. Submit your site to Technorati
  15. Submit your site to AllTop
  16. E-mail webmasters of relevant sites for links
  17. Create exceptional content and submit to Digg
  18. Submit more exceptional content to Reddit
  19. Submit articles to Associated Content
  20. Create a quiz or survey & publish the findings
  21. Create a linkable widget
  22. Create an embeddable badge
  23. Leave intelligent comments on blogs
  24. Participate in forums
  25. Create a Squidoo page
  26. Add a link to your e-mail signature
  27. Submit your site to AdAge’s power 150 list (industry specific)
  28. Submit articles to Sphinn (industry specific)
  29. Submit your content to Delicious
  30. Submit your sites RSS feed to RSS directories
  31. Create videos, submit to YouTube, link back to your website
  32. Repeat #30 on blip.tv
  33. Repeat #30 on DailyMotion
  34. Repeat #30 on Yahoo Video
  35. Repeat #30 on MySpace Video
  36. Repeat #30 on Viddler
  37. Repeat #30 on MetaCafe
  38. Create a podcast, submit to iTunes
  39. Create a podcast, submit to Podcast Alley
  40. Create a podcast, submit to Blog Talk Radio
  41. Start a MySpace page
  42. Take great photos, upload to Flickr and link back to your website
  43. Add a link to your website in your LinkedIn profile
  44. Add a link to your website in your NaymZ profile
  45. Create a local business listing in Google
  46. Submit your local business listing to Insider Pages
  47. Create a local business listing in Yelp
  48. Create a presentation, and submit to SlideShare
  49. Get interviewed and talk about your website
  50. Interview interesting people in your industry and publish on your website
  51. Bookmark your content on Mister-Wong
  52. Submit your site to StumbleUpon
  53. Create a “how-to” video that’s relevant to your industry and submit to eHow
  54. Create a FriendFeed account and tie in your RSS feed
  55. Add a link to your Facebook profile
  56. Send a note to all your Facebook friends about your new site
  57. Send a message to all your LinkedIn contacts about your new site
  58. Throw a launch party, find another company to sponsor it
  59. Create a contest and give away items you already own
  60. Create some art and submit to DeviantArt
  61. Create an eBook and submit to Scribd
  62. Write an academic article about your industry, use it as a reference on a Wikipedia page
  63. Sign up for a Card.ly account
  64. Join Meetup.com and start a group, list your website as a sponsor
  65. Be the first to write about a piece of breaking news
  66. Create a blip.fm profile and add your website
  67. Create a WordPress plugin
  68. Create a Drupal module
  69. Create a Joomla extension
  70. Create a Firefox plugin
  71. Design a WordPress theme
  72. Design a Drupal theme
  73. Design a Joomla theme
  74. Create a humorous article and submit to Fark
  75. Submit your site to Propeller
  76. Create a profile on iReport and submit a news story
  77. Join NowPublic and submit a news story, use your website as a source
  78. Write an article about open source technology, submit to Slashdot
  79. Start a networking group for your industry, have people sign up on your website
  80. E-mail your friends about your website
  81. E-mail your family about your website
  82. E-mail your coworkers about your website
  83. Create a Craigslist ad offering your writing talents, use your website as example work
  84. Become a writer for about.com, link to your website in a post
  85. Become a writer for examiner.com, link to your website in a post
  86. Give a presentation at an industry conference, mention your website in your presentation
  87. Submit an open source software project to SourceForge
  88. Create a Tumblr site
  89. Create a Posterous site
  90. Create a Blogger site
  91. Start a band, get listed on last.fm, link to your website
  92. Create a virtual product, and join an affiliate network to sell it
  93. Volunteer for a local non-profit, get listed on their website
  94. Network with other bloggers, get them to write about your website
  95. Write your website’s URL on your car with soap, drive around till you run out of gas
  96. Submit a note to Passive Aggressive Notes, include your URL somewhere in the note
  97. Submit a secret to Post Secret, include your URL somewhere in the secret
  98. Convince a celebrity to endorse your website
  99. Get on a reality TV show, talk incessantly about your website
  100. Create a funny sign about your website, stand outside a busy street corner with the sign
  101. Start a cable access TV show and talk about your website

Would you add anything else to the list?

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About Colin

Colin Alsheimer is an Account Supervisor for Weber Shandwick and the VP of Promotions for the Social Media Club of Dallas, among other things.