What can we do to promote a new website?

[in the fashion website]

Hi we have a new site glityzbits, selling fashion jewellery and hair accessories. Doing the usual SEO article marketing, directory subs and facebook. What can we do that will increase hits and sales?
http://www.glitzybits.co.uk

[Web Ninja]

you are doing right just take a few more step to promote your new site-
Give your participation in to forums related to the topic of your site
PTC ads and write Wiki page on your site or on topics that your site contain.

[Rob]

Answer questions on sites like 'Yahoo Answers' and put your web address in at the bottom.
http://bandjarts.com

Exchange links with people (if it fits into your web page/design)

Let me know if you need more help with the exchange as I would be more than happy to exchange links with you.

[Kushal K]

If you are doing the conventional marketing with seo it is good they are permanent but to increase sales you need more targeted traffic.

You can find more people who are interested in your website topic at forums. Join some online forums or community and be active ask questions also answer other peoples questions. Then once you have more than say 30 answers put a link back to your website in the signature with an attractive title.

Also make videos and submit to youtube they are holy grail of modern internet marketers. They rank well and people like them so more clicks and have a link to your website in description.

[Nikos]

There are many ways to get traffic but you have to spend a lot of time and work hard (or outsource), some of them are the following:

1) Blog commenting on relevant to your site blogs

2) Guest posting on relevant and quality blogs (this is by far the most effective seo and traffic generating method)

3) Convert articles to videos and publish them on youtube (quality links and traffic)

4) forum posting (traffic)

[gurusmith]

To get things rolling and start prompting a stream of ever-increasing awareness (and therefore traffic) to your site, here are some essential tools for making that truly possible;

1. Write some good, useful, inspirational articles to direct traffic to your site

Do your research, See what information people are searching for, both through the search engines and in the forums. Submit these articles to article directories, ezines and to other sites who are in a similar market to your own.

Always, include your details and the all important URL of your site, in the resource box. Try not to make the article appear as an obvious advertisement of your product or business , but as a source of valuable information which others will find of use.

2. Spend a little money and start some good advertising campaigns

This is by far the fastest and most effective way of directing targeted traffic to your site. Both Goggles' Adwords and Yahoos' Overture are the indisputable leaders in this field. An ad with either of these guys will give you immediate exposure to a waiting world of budding customers.

3. Optimize your web pages

Again, do your research and make sure that you have the best keywords on your pages. Search engines look for these keywords and with them, determine your sites' ranking in their lists. The right words in the right place can shoot you to the higher listings and get you seen more easily when people search.

4. Trading Links with other sites

By getting your site listed on another person's site you are multiplying your exposure in an instant. Any visitor to either site is immediately presented with the other persons' URL after just one search. Each sites efforts have a double effect by generating potential traffic to either site. Apply this across a few sites and you can see how dramatic the effect can be.

5. Start Some Viral Marketing

As the name suggests, this is all about starting a virus, spreading from person to person, site to site - only, you are the source of the virus and it has your name on it! Write a report, ebook, article or whatever and give it away for free. Just ensure that your link is on or within the report, etc. so that all people who have access to it are directed back to your site. This can be one of the most effective free traffic-generating methods available to you. Be creative, send it out and wait for the results.

6. Start An Ezine or Online Newsletter

Once you begin to tell people about yourself, they soon begin to develop a relationship with you and feel that they can trust you. Keeping people informed through a newsletter will depend this relationship, create long-standing customers for you and will encourage these customers to tell others about you, bringing further traffic to your site.

7. Participating In Forums

Forums or online communities are places where people of a similar nature and interest come together to share news and exchange ideas. In these places, it is possible for you to show your expertise and skills and establish yourself as someone worth listening to. People start to trust you and look to you for some of the answers to their needs. Through this, traffic to your site will naturally occur. Again, be yourself, do not try to sell in these places simply allow others to seek you out.

8. Offline Advertising

Often overlooked by web-based businesses, this can be a highly effective way of boosting your traffic. Bumper stickers, business cards, ads in shops, fliers are but a few ways of getting your word out. Be creative and let people know you are in business.

9. Email Signatures.

Every time you send an email you are contacting a potential customer, whether they know it or not. By placing a simple one line ad with your URL at then end of every email you are projecting your existence to anyone curious to find out more. Don't miss out on this simple but powerful free tool.

Getting traffic to your site does not have to be an expensive business. With consistency and patience, using just a few of the above techniques can have traffic knocking at your door in no time at all. Structure your approach and follow a plan, learn from your efforts and reap the rewards.

[Dee]

World Links Classifieds provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events. It's also free to post your ad.

[Lord Raiden]

If you're looking for rising your buisness with high profit and traffic then its a must to follow the tips:

Tip#1: Tag Optimization
Meta-tag optimization plays an important role on SEO. If you run an ecommerce website, use different Meta -tag, tile and Meta description for different products. Use an understandable name for your products. Describe your products as detail as you can.

Tip#2: ContentOptimization
Make your website’s content as unique as you can. Try your level best avoid the duplicate or copied content. If you run a blog, it is very important for you. Also do not use your targeted keywords too much in your website, it is an old fashion and now it’s completely useless.

Tip#3: Backlinks
Do not build a lot backlinks at a time. SEO needs patience. No more than 30 links from one IP in 24 hours. I am talking about the backlinks. Try to focus on quality, not quantity. Focus on authority websites.

Tip#4: Link quality
Don’t leave your links only while creating backlinks. Use a decent text to read about your keywords. Try to write 100 to 150 word small paragraph while creating backlinks.

Tip#5: Blog Commenting
Comment on blogs with relevant texts. While commenting, try to make people read your comment. So summarize your thinking and try to write using points. Do not make an extra-large posting!

Tip#6: Forum Posting
While posting on forum do NOT spam. Post meaningful threads. Remember, forum is the place for cooperation, not for marketing. If you behave well and cooperate well, your cooperation will increase your market automatically.

Tip#7: Link type
Use text links instead of direct links. That is making your keyword hyperlinked by your targeted URL. This will increase your link value.

Tip#8: Social networking
Let’s talk about facebook and twitter. Some guys have 10K+ even 50K+ followers in twitter or a huge number of facebook friends. Having such a number of friends makes it impossible to continue communication. In this case, try updating your status in a periodic manner so that while doing marketing, you will get better response.

Tip#9: Email marketing
If you want to promote your site using email, use a reliable program for sending bulk emails. Make sure your email passed on spam filter check. Also do not forget to check the email in different email clients before sending. Do not use much images in your email as some of your targeted customers may find this email slow to load. Send your email in both HTML and text form. Many email clients are set to view only text emails.

Tip#10: Local links
For targeted traffic generation do some local link building also. For example, if your business needs South African clients,it is beneficial to have some links form (dot)co (dot)za domain as well.

The last but not the least all the above you'll get at SEOBD(seobd.net). They really amazed me by their quality work and reasonable price. You can check them by using their free website analysis which is damn effective for anybody. I suggest you to check them out without any delay.

[waqqas]

Hi,
Yes you are quire right on the requirements you mention. Writing articles and leaving your website link on the article is a very good idea of improving your website reputation and "Ranking".

For articles you can try http://www.thegreatbritain.com .

They are open to articles so make use of it.

I think your article should be around 250 to 300 words.

It works really good in the longer run as well.

Good Luck