Hi has anyone got any advise on the best way to market a new website?

[RICHARD H]

There's a huge variety of different ways to market your website. Firstly before I give you any set methods, what we often do is have a competition, each member of staff is given £10 (~$18) and the member of staff who manages to get the most visitors to the website wins a prize...it's a really good way to get you thinking really creatively.

The main methods would be:
Researching and applying search engine optimization techniques, it's fine having a great website design but if it isn't search engine friendly you're not likely to do very well.

Setting up a blog and writing articles frequently...search engines value original and frequently updated content. Don't rip off other sites content, search engines can now detect this and your website will lose value slightly.

Link to your website / blog entries from bogging websites, social media portals and social networking websites.

Avoid 'traffic exchangers', if search engines realize you're part of them you risk being blacklisted.

Digital4 Web Design run a blog/guide that you might be interested in reading, it covers a lot of marketing basics etc: http://www.digital4webdesign.com/guide/

Basically to summarize there's tonnes of different ways...read around, check out d4's blog (sign up to the emails they send out some nifty internet marketing and web design tips based on seo etc) and most importantly be creative. Don't overlook offline marketing too!