yeah the forum thing is a good idea, I've looked into toplists and such but I don't like the idea too much because you need to add a banner to your site and I don't want my site overflowing with badly designed toplist banners. So I'm still looking for alternatives.

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Some things I´ve done... first of all take some time to decide which metatags to include. Then submit it to a lot of search engines. There are sites that allow you to do it to lots of them at the same time but I suppose that is better to do it one by one and be sure that you don´t do it a lot of times in few days, because you can get banned or penalized.

You also have to look what other simmilar sites have to offer, which will help you to improve yours. This is important because when you gently spam some related webs and forums you need to offer something new. Otherwise nobody will move. Exchange links with websites, but I recommend only exchanging with quality sites. Of course you´ll gain more popularity if you exchange with 500 webs but realize that probably 200 will die the next month, and other 200 will be of very poor quality so maybe it´s not and advantage to have associations with those.

Finally, the best way to win popularity is quality. If people lov your site, you´ll get users because they´ll tell their friends, recommend your site in forums, blogs, etc. nd that´s the best way of promotion, when somebody external to the site does it.

 

 

 

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I agree with what sprnknwn said, you need to ensure that the meta tags are accurate and then submit to the various search engines.
It's also helpful if you submit your site to an open directory, such as dmoz.org, as many of the search engines go to these sites and will find your site through such directories.

Once your site is on the search engines, you will have random people coming by searching the search engine (you can specify which keywords find your site in the meta tags).

It's not only search engines which can attract users to your website. There's also various blogs and forums around the internet. If you manage to advertise your website on these forums, the search engines and the users/bots viewing the forum page will be linked to your website. People would then be able to find your site on google through that forum page.

I'm not sure on topsites, some people say they work, some people don't. I haven't really used them, but on the couple of occasions that I have, I've found that they don't really work very well.

Hope this helps.

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Yeah I haven't put any metatags in my site yet, but I'm going too, I was also planning on submitting it to a few directories, so that's gonna be the next step after I got my metatags straight.

I'm also hoping for peer to peer promotion, I think that's what can really work for my site, unfortunately there lies my dilema, I need poeple to post intersting content for other poeple to find the site interesting... as long as I only have a few poeple come by and even less poeple post it ain't gonna work... oh well I'll see

Thanks for all the replies, always open to hear more stuff.

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