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hi friends

have you any idea how to promote a website?
i mean how to start promotion plans is there any idea not to use meta tags and kei or something like that
for example a desktop linux application to rank and promote a website?
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<out of interest>
I tell you one thing that works although you need to get out on the streets. I used to drive past this rasta dude in Manchester on my way to work, and on the way home again. He always had a cardboard sign fastened to his back with string, sporting the name of his website and he'd just stand at the side of road while the cars drove by. I won't forget the name of his website though "sabirock.co.uk".

Clearly he was a determined musician out there getting his name on the streets. He did this for a long time though.
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The only way to get your website known is to let people know about it. Blog about it, link to it from websites of a similar nature. If it's a specialized business for example, get an ad in a magazine which relates to it.

SitePoint also have a place to advertise and promote websites (in the market place area):

This may be of interest too:
Promotion Techniques

Pay-per-click advertising is a good way to target specific users. Google offer pay-per-click advertising, or again, if you're promoting a website which is very developer/software oriented you may want to try advertising on a website of similar nature.
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thanks for you help
the promotion of a website is the other side of the web engineering you know if you have the most valuable code architecture but without any establishment it would be no advantages they should be together to advertise nice and code well

i have very low knowledge about it just how to add a site in some search engines and to select nice mates for a site and description and content .... but

i need more i want to know how to increase a website visitors how to increase hits of the site leaving links anywhere? just it

is it not interesting really ?
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Depending on what the site is about, you can also send press releases to other relavent sites that cover information similar to what your site provides. This can often give a quick boom in traffic, and help spread the word a little.
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Inkyskin wrote:Depending on what the site is about, you can also send press releases to other relavent sites that cover information similar to what your site provides. This can often give a quick boom in traffic, and help spread the word a little.

a little unclear for me you mean that depending on the category of the i should spend time in same type sites and leaving lik on them? or you mean adding the site in directories?
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One thing to be aware of by the way... if you get lucky and you drive traffic to your site really quickly, make sure your hosting is prepared to deal with the load otherwise you'll just crash your site and nobody will see it at all. I'm thinking about Digg here... I've seen what getting on the front page of digg does to even high-spec servers :P

EDIT | Stupid BBCode!
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hannnndy wrote:a little unclear for me you mean that depending on the category of the i should spend time in same type sites and leaving lik on them? or you mean adding the site in directories?
No, I mean if your site was an online image editing service for example, then you would send press releases to online photography and graphic design magazines to print a news story about your site. As Chris says though, be careful about how much traffic you drive to your site in one go ;)
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