IMO marketing your website start with your content. Providing useful and relevant content in your niche is very crucial. Here are my top 6 picks:
1. Great content - be it information, service, products... providing relevance and usefulness gives you higher chances of making a visitor into a customer
2. Forum and blog posting on relevant niche - you participate constructively and learn new things while promoting your site via signature.
3. Pay-Per-Click - done properly, best at getting target traffic faster on a direct marketing approach to your potential clients.
4. Targeted Link backs - another premium way of getting the right traffic and would help also in PR building so long as you submit to high PR sites or directory
5. Article marketing - useful and relevant articles to your niche is a nice way of link baiting.
6. SEO - through link building - this will get you more traffic in the long run
What are your top picks? How do you promote your sites?
Hi TryUsOut...i believe that you almost listed the bets ways to get on....but add a press release submission to that...its also a great way to promote and get traffic
This are always a basic steps to be followed by SEO manager to optimize the site.But the important factor is how efficiently u do all this things.
Eg- if u do forum posting but the topic is not good then no one will reply u and so no link building.
Similarly in case of directory submission if u placed the site in wrong category then its totally wastage of time.
So ,what ever step u follow for optimization that should qualitative and not quantitative.
content is key. People need substance, a reason for coming back.
Definitely a key factor. Useful and unique content could even pave way for orgain linking - this happens when other sites link to you when they see the value in your content. Thus the saying "content is king"