Hi,
I would like to know if anyone has any sugestions on how to make my site popular to more audiances. My site currently has a popularity of about 5 people a day. It is linked to few sites. It is listed on MSN, Yahoo! (not verified), And google. It is part of googles sitemap program and is also part of is adsence program. Now that ive giving the information heres the link: IDI Metal Music. I would be interested in making any link exchanges but im not interested in making it to sites that have nothing in commen with my site. (to make an exchange request put my link on your site and leave the url that the link is on in a reply or an email (viewsite for contact information). And any other suggestions on how to make the site popular is appreaciated.
Thanks

Well this basically takes a lot of hard work and persaverance. You can't give up. The more sites you are linked to and link back, the more people you will get, and the higher the rank you have in google, yahoo, msn etc;. If you keep trying to find other sites related to yours you will start to get more hits and then more people will tell their friends and stuff. Just offer the people something and they will keep coming back. Good luck.

May I recommend using CSS, it will make your website a whole lot better, also make a nicer navigation, go to http://www.milonic.com/ and get a free navigation bar.
You can even get premade website templates like PHP-Nuke, POST-Nuke, Mambo or Joomla. These are easily manageable with an administration panel and some come with a built-in forum.

If you need help with CSS you can post here or email me admin[at]schematicstation[.]net

You could list it on places like yoursite.nu or acidgloss.net listings. And linking to it in forum signatures.

But in the end, if you have a good site, you will get visitors and if it's *BLEEP* you won't.

Totally agree the more sites you join which include other sites, topsites, link exchange programs and using SEO tools you can increase your viewership.

Also we want to keep on adding new content every day as well to keep epople interested and also another good suggestion is put up a forum as well they usually get good responses but that takes time as well.

thanks for the info "Saint_Michael" and "Borghunter". Making site more populer needs time and effort.

You recommend using CSS (good) first and then recommend using a javascript menu like Milonic (bad).
Search engines spiders don't like those complex javascript-generated menus because the links aren't actually there in the source of the page for them to be able to follow.
So yes, use CSS, but if you're going to use it, use it properly and build your dropdowns with CSS as well.