35 Great Website Marketing Ideas

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 by Sam

People are always looking for great ways to market their websites. Let’s look at a few website marketing ideas that are easy to implement and can do wonders for your website:

1. Find ways to discuss your website on forums (but without spamming)

2. Forum signature links

3. Print your website link on custom t-shirts, caps, etc.

4. Social bookmarking

5. Directory submission

6. Blog commenting

7. Article submission to article directories

8. Email campaign

9. Display your website in messenger list as status/custom message

10. Become a guest writer

11. Email signature

12. Run a competition and award the winner a nice prize

13. Use some free/paid PPC vouchers for advertising

14. Link exchange

15. Distribute fliers at schools, colleges, clubs, etc.

16. Start an affiliate program

17. Distribute a free report containing links to your site

18. Distribute business cards with your website address

19. Review other sites and ask them to return the favor

20. Promote your website on Twitter, Facebook, etc. without spamming

21. Press releases

22. If you know programming/designing, create free website templates with a link to your site

23. Exchange banners with other sites

24. Create an attractive logo for your website and submit it to various image hosting/sharing sites

25. Create an interesting/useful video and include your website at the end for more tips and tricks

26. Start a blog and/or a forum along with your website

27. Update your website regularly with genuine content and it will naturally become more popular

28. Include your website link in voicemail

29. Hire an SEO professional and inform them that you will write a testimonial on his site in exchange for a link

30. Include your website link everytime you SMS someone

31. Provide a solution to someone at sites like Yahoo! Answers and leave your link in the source box

32. Create 50 simple tips, 101 great tips, top 100 list, etc. as these lists attract a lot of attention

33. Interview someone popular in your niche and spread the word about your post

34. Build useful plugins for Firefox, Wordpress, etc. and distribute them free of charge

35. Ask your clients to help you with the promotion and give them a valuable free product or a big discount

Phew, I think that list of great website marketing ideas should keep you buzy for some time, I’m just off to implement some of them for our own site ;)

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