Free ways to promote your site

1. Submit your site into free search engine submission sites. Make sure that you submit your site to google, yahoo, and msn. One site that submits to search engines is www.submitexpress.com/
2. Submit your site to ffa sites. FFA sites are sites that are made for the purpose of letting people post one way links. One service that submits to ffa sites is blastomatic.com.
3. Join viral marketing sites. Some let you get guaranteed traffic from a certain amount of visitors as long as you visit certain sites. There is also some sites that get you more ads for referring people to join. One example is http://www.adtrackclassifieds.com/?mid=957
4. Another thing to do is to join link exchange sites. These sites let you swap links with other members in an organized, effective and often free way. One example is www.linkmarket.net
5. Another way is to write articles. Since getting many links to your site on the net makes your search engine rankings higher, you can get more links by putting your link in articles you write. The articles can be on any subject, and there are many article directories or other types of websites that accept articles.
6. Another good way is to write press releases. In the press releases you can include news about your webpage such as new features.
7. A great place to add your link is a directory. There are many directories with one example being dmoz.org
These are just some of the top ways to generate traffic for your site.
Nahom Kidanemariam is a student and webmaster of http://eduhelper.tripod.com