You need to market your web site!
You can do this in many ways and what works for someone else may or may not work for you.
Marketing is broke down into two catagories, Online Marketing and Offline Marketing. Each has a list of sub-catagories depending on your approach and needs.
Online Marketing has some similar aspects as offline marketing.
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Online Marketing
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Offline Marketing
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Seach engines
PPC
Banner ads
online yellow pages
Links
Online press releases
Articles
forums
blogs
Permision Marketing
Testomonials
Affiliates |
- Business Cards
- Phone book
- Phone Book Ads
- Print Ads
- Radio Ads
- TV Ads
- Brouchures
- Direct mail
- Word of Mouth
- Referals
- Testomonials
- Press Releases
- Associations
- Chamber of Commerse
- Community charities
- Sponsoring events
- Signs-Yard and car
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Both online and offline has a cost associated to it, whether it be time, money or effort. Your budget is going to determine what methods you use. As your budget grows and time allows you will want to use some form of all of these methods to grow your business.
A great free e-book that taught me a lot! Common Sense Web Marketing written by David Notestine. If you follow his steps with any link trading you do, you will become very successful.