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1. If you're launching a new site, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.
2. Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
3. Create a MySpace account and use it to publisise your site.
4. Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you're really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
5. Create a Technorati account and "claim" your blog.
6. Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here.
7. Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
8. Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.
9. Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds.
10. Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner, Squidoo, Feedboy, Jordomedia, FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint
11. Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
12. Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
13. Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.
14. Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here for more info.
15. Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.
16. Tell your friends about your site. It's free advertising init.
17. Spell cheek ur stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
18. Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
19. Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
20. Don't worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
21. Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
22. Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.
23. Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
24. Advertise your site on Craigslist. It's free, relevant and localised.
25. Do NOT use frames.
26. Submit your site to DMOZ.org. It may take time, but it's worth it.
27. Create an XML sitemap of your site and submit it to Google.
28. Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
29. Ask a large breasted lady to wear one too.
30. Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you're a publish, make some cash!
31. On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
32. Send out a newsletter!
33. Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
34. Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
35. Don't pay people to submit your site to search engines. It's a waste of money.
36. YouTube and Google Video are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.
37. Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
38. Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
39. If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add "As Seen on TV" to your site!
40. Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.
41. Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it's not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.
42. Learn about CSS. It's the new HTML.
43. Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.
44. Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
45. Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid http://www.yourdomain.com/pgInfoPage...CFE3AEDAF8DD9D
46. If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a "Skip Intro" link.
47. Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
48. Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.
49. Donate money to a charity and most will place a link on their site back to you.

I know this isn't my work and people might have seen it and some of them are outdated but the below list is amazing.

Allot of things have changed so if people do things not in the lsit maybe they could add them as well?

Hi
There are allot of ways you can get visitors, it really depends on the time you have to promote your business online.

Keep in mind that Google is the largest search engine around I would focus not all but allot of my time on this search engine.

As said above look at starting Social Networking sites this could include
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many more

Also look at using forums to help promote your business try and find some specific to your business industry. This forum is an excellent way to promote your business

Create content and add it to sites like Squiddo, Hubpages, gather etc and add some links back to your website. Make sure it

To be honest I would spend as little as possible on a PC as long as it worked and was quick enough for what I needed to do I would be happy.

Although that new dell flip laptop is rather tasty

I have the exact same trouble

Ive only made one round since been here Not bad for 3 weeks work

Its just such a good feeling when you work on a clients website and then you get them top

SEO like many factors of a website is hugely important without it you will find it hard to generate new leads for your business via Google

I mainly tweet about events, Blog posts, News and information related to my industry.

I try and make it useful or informative so people will follow

Using simply keywords will instantly gain you some followers

The Galaxy Affect is something people use when they are using a paid search like "PPC"

It relates to a company that only focuses on one location and not the rest in the galaxy

If your still un-sure "The Galaxy Effect"