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Some answers are in every marketing text book ever written, so that's your starting point.

Upshot is there is nothing decent for 100% free. The free stuff always underperforms, that's why the Googles of this world charge for better ad space.

so now you know.....

Stilll, i believe on free promotion. I will never pay for anything unless its necessary.

Originally Posted by Robdale

Stilll, i believe on free promotion. I will never pay for anything unless its necessary.

We can all 'believe', but reality never goes away. The few free promotional methods left eg: link swaps, don't work at large enough scale to be truly great, so all you will get is a few visitors and how many links will you get in 1 year, maybe 500? That 500 isn't enough to sell your service on, nor will many convert from that.

No link exchange will drive 1000's to a website, other promoton is required far beyond basic links swaps, article/directory spamming, blogs, social networks etc. if you think you can do this using crappy webmaster tips or totally for free, you're in for the shock of your life.

You can do all the surfing you want, but doubt you'll find a link that will generate a massive amount of traffic in the short term. I used Google adwords once and got a max of 90 clicks for 1 month, and thats using a professional engine! I used a national paper that went out to 8.5 million readers, I didn't get 1 single sale.... There's the proof that a single mention to millions didn't convert in money, there is no magic pill or secret, so you will have to pay or be content with rubbish results forever.

Originally Posted by Robdale

Stilll, i believe on free promotion. I will never pay for anything unless its necessary.

Agreed... No need to waste your money if you can promote your site for free. You can do social bookmarking. That is very effective.

Put twitter and mybloglog to your blog. Post in relevant forums too.

Originally Posted by woogley

Agreed... No need to waste your money if you can promote your site for free. You can do social bookmarking. That is very effective.

I say the traffic won't convert and you don't get any sales from that strategy. Let me explain why this is a bad idea.

If I'm being entertained on a games or social site, and I see some webmaster link in my face, I'm going to laugh at it or ignore it - and probably both. I'm being serious, so it has just failed. People dont go to social websites to do business, they go to chat etc.

Want to place links for your business website?, then go where the business people hang out.

usually, not all the business people buy your products. But, you can get some consumers on sites like social networking. That is why many big companies runs in sites like facebook and myspace.

Originally Posted by Robdale

usually, not all the business people buy your products. But, you can get some consumers on sites like social networking. That is why many big companies runs in sites like facebook and myspace.

Now I'm going tell you why this web thing is so difficult. - the major big companies succeed bcos they set up 20, 30, 40 years ago, they had offline businesses way before the web, their brand was established and making tons of profit, and had millions to spend on websites, web promotion and were well-known before they created their websites so was dead easy for them to make money from their websites. You cannot do what they have done, end of, you aren't in the same league as them, and hoping you can do this using off-target social network sites, you're out of your depth. And thinking you can cream a few sales from facebook etc - good luck.

Bottom line is: Real companies are established and trusted, silly webmasters are not.

Secondly: Real company websites have significant value, webmasters efforts do not.

So few even get a good idea going, I'd say just 1% will come up with that good idea. Less than 1% will invent something like Youtube.

My advice to you and others is go to college and study business, then think of great idea, then maybe you will stand a chance. Set up a service, NOT a product, and make the main service unique (not what surrounds the main service), the main service is key, has to be special and not be copied from anything else. This will get exposure very quickly, get you into the real media, but the money wont tumble in - not even at the early stages - no chance! But it can be built up from a truly great idea.