101 Free Ways To Promote Your Website

By
Colin
Published: 02/01/2010Posted in: Featured, Social Media, internet marketing, seoTags: , , ,
101 Free Ways To Promote Your Website

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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