I have only 2.5 years experience in the SEO Industry. Within these years i learn few things onpage as well as offpage. I just share my knowledge .

1. Best Ways to Promote Your Website or Blog
I have hand picked all of these resources based on their usefulness, rate of success and overall quality. I
have written this article to help people find new sources of traffic for their website or blog and to shed
some light on some of the best resources related to each method of promotion. I hope you find this
article informative and useful! Enjoy!
1. Article Directories
Article directories are a wonderful way to get traffic and backlinks to your website. There are many well
established article directories that have been proven to get websites traffic. People search for articles in
different categories and after reading the article they usually follow a link at the bottom of the article to
your website.
 www.GoArticles.com
 http://www.ehow.com/
 http://www.articledashboard.com/
 http://ezinearticles.com/
 http://www.amazines.com/
 http://a1articles.com/
 http://www.ideamarketers.com/
 http://www.articleshub.org/
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2.  http://www.articlesfactory.com/
 http://www.selfgrowth.com/
 http://www.articlebiz.com/
 http://www.articlesbase.com/
2. Business Directories
Posting in business directories is still an effective way to get backlinks and small amounts of
traffic. Most directory sites have many listings that are organized into. Being that there are so
many business directories, the best way to find one related to your site would be to do a Google
search or to use the websites below to find them.
 www.dmoz.org
 dir.yahoo.com
 www.lii.org
 www.stpt.com/directory
 www.business.com
 www.cannylink.com
3. Classifieds
Classifieds are a common way to easily make posts for free, and reach large amounts of people.
They tend to work better for business or service-based websites, but you can also drive traffic to
other types of sites as well
 http://www.olx.in/
 http://my.freeads.co.uk
 http://www.vivastreet.co.uk/account_classifieds.php
 http://www.ukclassifieds.co.uk
 http://kolkata.craigslist.co.in/
4. Forums
Forums are another good way to get backlinks and traffic, but you need to contribute to the
forums and not just spam them with your links. I recommend becoming an active member of
forums that are related to your site, as well as including your website link in your forum
signature. By making intelligent and informative posts people will be inclined to check out the
link in your signature because you’ve built interest about yourself.
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3. The best way to do this is to manually search for forums related to your site and then sign up to
start posting.
 http://www.seoers.org/BB/
 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
5. Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites are often overlooked as a way to market a website or blog. Having lots of
friends and access to groups can be a good way to contact a lot of people in an easy and efficient
manner. Most social networking sites also have forums and classifieds that you can post in.
 www.myspace.com
 www.facebook.com
 www.linkedin.com
6. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites can be an amazing way to promote your website. What a lot of people
will do is write a killer article and then submit it to the social bookmarking sites to drive traffic
to that article, hoping it will get bookmarked a lot
 www.netscape.com
 www.digg.com
 http://delicious.com
 www.furl.net
 www.stumbleupon.com
 www.reddit.com
 www.simpy.com
 www.newsvine.com
 http://pinterest.com/
 http://www.buzzfeed.com/
 http://www.fark.com/
 http://slashdot.org/
 www.friendfeed.com
 www.clipmarks.com
 http://secure.diigo.com/
 http://blinklist.com
 http://dizzbookmarks.com
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4. 7. Search Engines
This is probably one of the most difficult ways to market a site, but also one of the most popular
ways due to the fact that the traffic you get can be extremely targeted to exactly what your site
offers. This is especially important for sites that sell a product and are looking for a high
conversion rate. It is usually better to start off targeting niche markets and low competition long
tail keywords. Ranking well on Google for a phrase like ‘graphic design’ in the search engines
would be extremely difficult to do, so look for longer keywords or more detailed ones.
 www.google.com
 www.yahoo.com
 www.msn.com
8. Pay per Click Advertising (PPC)
PPC advertising takes a lot of studying to do right, and can cost a decent amount of money, but if
your site is well designed and converts well, or you are just looking for traffic, it can be a very
powerful marketing tool when done right.
 adwords.google.com
 searchmarketing.yahoo.com
 adCenter.Microsoft.com
9. Banner Advertising
The difficulty in banner advertising is simply creating a very alluring banner design in the
amount of space specified. Some sites don’t let you create animated banners, but if you have
a very intriguing static banner on a good site it can get you traffic for sure.
The best way to do this is to manually search for websites and blogs related to your site and
contact them for a banner exchange.
 http://www.flickr.com/
 http://picasa.google.com/
10. Text Link Advertising
Text link advertising is usually cheap and can bring in lots of traffic, but the traffic tends to be
rather unspecific – which is ok sometimes. I find it best to look for sites related to your website
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5. to buy text links spots on. Or, if you are just looking for tons of traffic, you can go to major text
link sites that offer spots on very large websites.
 www.text-link-ads.com
 www.adbrite.com
 www.adengage.com
11. Portfolio Sites
There are many websites that host portfolios of designers and artists. By submitting your work to
their sites you will often get a lot of exposure to your own site by way of a link.
 www.behance.net
 www.altpick.com
 www.portfolios.com
 www.deviantart.com
12. Tutorial Sites
Submitting tutorials is a great way to get traffic to your website via a link. A lot of designers
submit tutorials to sites like the ones below, and get a lot of exposure. Most of these tutorials
sites are very well ranked so getting a link on them can be very good for your website or blog.
 www.pixel2life.com
 www.good-tutorials.com
 www.tutorialoutpost.com
13. Link Baiting
Linking baiting is when you write or post something that has the potential to be blogged about,
linked or bookmarked a lot. Good content in general will help your website or blog out a lot, but
you can step it up a notch by producing videos or articles specifically for link baiting.
14. Contests
People love entering contest, especially if there is a desirable prize. Contest prizes range in types.
Some sites will offer you exposure and links and other sites will offer money or actual physical
prizes. The key to a successful contest is obviously getting lots of people to enter, so make sure
you promote your contest as much as you can on forums, classifieds and more. Also, don’t
be afraid to enter contests for a chance to win some money or prizes, yourself!
15. Link Exchanges
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6. This is arguably one of the most important ways to rank well for keywords and bring traffic to
your website. It is important to exchange links or get one-way links from relevant sites. Make
sure you are using an important keyword because your links anchor text and not a word like
‘click here’ or something you don’t want to rank well for in search engines.
The best way to do this is to manually search for websites and blogs related to your site and
contact them for a link exchange. Also, check out the two sites below.
 www.seopen.com/seopen-tools/
 blogsearch.google.com
16. Email Marketing
Email marketing can be very beneficial if done well. You do not want to be a spammer or buy
lists of emails, though. The way to work email marketing is to have an opt-in email form on your
website where users can sign up to receive emails and special offers. Offering a free e-book or
tips is a good way to get people to sign up. Once they are signed up you can send emails once in
a while to bring them back to your site or to promote something.
www.aweber.com
www.icontact.com
17. Viral Marketing
This is the hottest new way to market a website, but it is not easy! You have probably heard
about all these YouTube videos getting millions of views, and articles on Digg getting thousands
of hits. If you can think up a really clever, funny or useful idea and tie it into your website via a
link or some other way, you can drive incredible amounts of traffic to your site with very little
money or possibly none at all.
18. Videos
Creating videos has become very popular since the creation of YouTube and other video-based
sites. This ties into viral marketing and is a good way to get people interested in your blog or
website. It is most common to show or say the URL of your website at the beginning and/or end
of a video, or tie it into your video site profile some how.
 www.youtube.com
 video.google.com
 vids.myspace.com
 video.search.yahoo.com
 video.msn.com
 video.aol.com
 www.metacafe.com
 http://vimeo.com/
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7. 19. Podcasting
This is basically creating audio files and then letting your users download or stream them via a
link on your website or blog or via RSS feeds. This is a good alternative to creating videos if you
don’t have a video camera or don’t like being on film. I have seen many sites
successfully offer audio downloads as a way of bringing users a large amount of information
quickly. You can even post on craigslist.com and hire voice over talent for your podcasts at
affordable prices.
20. Blogs
Blogs are a great way to reach a lot of people in a fast manner. They take a lot of work, and to
make a blog really effective they need to be updated with fresh content at least several times a
week. A lot of websites will have a blog in addition to a main website as a sort of news system
for their main site, or just as a way to drive traffic to a website.
 www.wordpress.com
 www.blogger.com
 www.twitter.com
 www.squidoo.com
 www.tumblr.com
21. eBooks
eBooks have become very popular and they tend to spread well in downloading communities.
You can even sell your eBook on eBay, via a website or just offer it as a gift to get people to sign
up for your newsletter.
22. Press Releases
Press releases can be an efficient way to get media attention if your website or product is
newsworthy enough. There are several websites you can do this on. However, more commonly
press releases are mailed, faxed, or e-mailed to assignment editors at newspapers, magazines,
radio stations, television stations, and/or television networks.
 http://www.free-press-release.com
 http://www.pressreleaseacer.com
 http://www.pressreleasesharer.com
 http://www.explorepressrelease.com/
 http://www.information-online.com/
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Sudip Nandy