First 24 hours how do you market your website FREE to get traffic to it?

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Building a popular website is a pretty tough objective, and I recommend approaching the problem from lots of different angles.

Many people may suggest advertising, but I think advertising is only normally a good idea if you are selling something. If you are providing free content, then there are better ways to go.

Do a search for the various web directories and submit your site for inclusion in them. http://dir.yahoo.com/ If you don't get accepted, improve your website and try submitting again later.

Submit your website to all the major search engines so that they can begin indexing it. Google's address is: http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?continue=/addurl You'll also want to add your site to Yahoo, Ask and MSN/LIVE and the other search engines should pick up your site when they crawl the net.

There are two other key parts to getting high traffic. The first is getting noticed, and for this you need to have lots of inbound links so that your page rank with the search engines is higher.

To accomplish this to start with you could offer link exchanges with other sites, use your various web accounts to advertise your site - and if you post in forums, add your site to your signature, especially if it is relevant to the forum's topic. If sites offer comment boxes to stories which are relevant to your site, make a response that includes your website. Also consider answering questions on Yahoo answers with links to your site when it is appropriate. However a word of warning. Don't spam or shamelessly self promote because this annoys people.

The second part is creating good content. People searching on the net are hungry for good stuff and they are pretty good at spotting it. If your website has valuable information/content it will organically rise in popularity as more people link to it and recommend it.

Also update often. To attract repeat visitors consider offering a newsletter or web feed.

Finally there are numerous web resources on this topic if you want some more ideas, so do some web searches for inspiration. A reasonable starting point is Pavlina's article: http://www.problogger.net/

Good luck.