Being a novice website developer the hardest part of creating a new website is getting actual people to look at your website. Coming up with the next great idea seems to be the easy part but it will never be a real success if you are the only person reading your work. I have been doing some experimenting with this problem and here are some of the things that seem to work for me.
1. Social Bookmarking – this is my number one pick because in large it has brought the lions share of the traffic to my site, there are some great sites that do this http://www.digg.com/ is my favorite it seems to be one of the most popular at the moment you can submit a link to one of your stories with a brief description and if it interest the rests of the diggers you might make it to the homepage.
2. Article Directories – I have to admit that there are a lot of crappy articles on most article directories so if you put your well written article on one it is bound to get snapped up by hundreds of content starved websites looking for new stories all they will all have backlinks pointing to you, http://ezinearticles.com/ seems to be a nice one.
3. Directory Submissions – Submit your site to human edited web directories like http://dmoz.org. It will help your page rank and may even get you some traffic.
4. Link trading – Most sites with similar interests as yours will be more than happy to add a link to your site as long as you provide them with a reciprocal link.
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This is by no means an all inclusive list and I am sure there are many more great ways to generate website traffic if you have a suggestion please post a comment.
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