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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