Ways to Promote Your Web Site for Free

Ways to Promote Your Web Site for Free

LINK BUILDING:

1. Exchange links with other bloggers
2. Use BlogRush
3. Submit to RSS directories
4. Submit to blog directories
5. Submit to general directories
6. Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself
7. Create and give away blog themes (with a link to your blog in the footer)
8. Create free plugins
9. Create link bait
10. Participate in blog carnivals
11. Comment on DoFollow blogs
12. WordPress Backlinks Plugin (link removed due to possible security issues)
    
    COMMUNITY:
13. Join communities at MyBlogLog
14. Join communities at Bumpzee
15. Join communities at Blog Catalog
16. Start a community at any of these sites
17. Comment on other blogs in your niche
18. Email your friends and contacts about a new blog post that may interest them
19. Email your readers to say “thank you”
20. Email other bloggers to introduce yourself
21. Link out to other blogs

SOCIAL MEDIA:

22. Digg
23. del.icio.us
24. StumbleUpon
25. Reddit
26. Netscape
27. Magnolia
28. MySpace
29. Facebook
30. YouTube FORUMS:
31. AuthorityBlogger

The add URL pages will appear in new windows. Copy your URL from your home page and paste into the add URL field, press the confirm/enter button, then close the window and open the next one. The entire resubmission should take just a few minutes.
 AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=addurl
Google
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Excite
http://www.excite.com/info/add_url_form
Go (also does infoseek). Add a slash (/) at the end of your URL.
http://www.go.com/AddUrl?pg=SubmitUrl.html&svx=CTOC_Add_url
Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html
Hotbot (possibly the best way to get noticed by inktomi, which doesn't have a submit URL page, is to submit to Hotbot).
http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp
Direct Hit (influences Hotbot and MSN)
http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html
All The Web (including Fast, influences Lycos)
http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3
Canada.com (appears to influence Hotbot). Has two confirmation buttons in sequence.
http://www.canada.com/search/web/addurl.asp 

Directories

It's pretty much essential to submit to these three directories. You should only need to do it once, except for Yahoo! (try resubmitting about every three months). For each directory, go to the correct category page for your site and from there click on Add URL.
Open Directory Project (used by Google, Netscape and many more)
http://www.dmoz.org
Looksmart
http://www.looksmart.com/
Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/
Snap is also a worthwhile directory, but cheekily it forces you to register before submitting.
http://www.snap.com/