As the title suggest: site promotion, we will discuss the various parts about how to promote a particular website on the Internet. Site promotion is essential to expand your business and make the most out of it. It helps to generate the maximum traffic to your website and gain the advantage out of it. I have mentioned some of the effective ways to promote your site.

* Submit to article directories:

Article submission is an awesome way to get traffic and quality backlinks to your site. A well written article can bring you huge amount of traffic. There are many quality article dictionary available on the net. Submit your original article with the link of your website at the bottom of your article. Generally people read article and follow the link at the bottom of the articles

* Forum Posting:

This is another way you can get backlinks and traffic to your website. First of all you need to select a proper forum niche related to your website and need to contribute your quality posts in the forum accordingly. Make sure you contribute properly and not just spam the forum with your link because in most cases forum moderators Ban the account due to spam activity. You have the privilege to set your signature links in forums and through this way you will get handsome traffic.

* Social networking:

Here is another good way to promote your site through social networking. This method is being used by lot of people now a days where you join a large social networking sites like Facebook.com, MySpace.com or Twitter.com and start doing networking. This method is somewhat easy. You make a large amount of friends, groups, fanpage and invite your friends to join and share their ideas. Same way in twitter, you just make an attractive quote with the link of your site and people will start following you. Isn’t this amazing?

* Contests:

Everyone loves contest and the related prized to be awarded. Many sites offer money or physical prizes their promotion. The important part of a successful contest is obviously to enter a lot of people and make sure you promote the contest as much as you can on classified and forums. The more people will take part, the more your link is popular.

* Press releases/Television/Radio:

This method is somewhat expensive as well as effective too. Press release is an effective way to bring the media attention if your site or product is new in the market. You can advertise your product/site with attractive quote or package where people might be interested.

* Email signature:

Yes, you can also convey or reach to the potential customer’s through the email signature. What you do is add a short sign-off with your name and the URL of your site. Like below John Smith

http:// www. johnsmith. com

* Blog comment:

Blog comments are what the blog make social and popular. Here you will put your valuable comments on various blog’s you read. Blog comments are the blood of a Blog where people like to involve and make their own comment. You can comment on blog with a link of your site. They said that an attractive comment bring all the attention. So if your comment will be attractive most of people will visit your link.

* Backlinks:

Backlinks are the most important factor to gain handsome traffic. Once you get a quality backlinks most of the traffic will come automatically to your site without doing major promotions. The key idea should be to collect backlinks from well established sites.

* Search Engines:

This method is a great and most effective and should be universal too. Once your site is ready and fully prepared the next step has to be search engine submission. This important key factor is strong and comprehensive submission to the all major search engines and get indexed. Keep improving your site and getter better rankings in the search engine. It will automatically provide you good traffic.