How would you go about promoting a brand new website with zero budget for marketing. Any suggestions? I am ready to put in effort but does not have the bucks to do it.
Getting quality of back links helps promote your site. You can get back links for free. Here are some of those techniques that helps you get free back links: blog commenting forum posting classified ads press release online groups forum posting article and directory submissions social bookmarking
Even I would suggest you the following. I have had a personal experience using these and witnessed great results.
Use social networking site to promote your sites, Facebook, Twitter, BlogCatalog etc.. can create a brand value for your product and services and a major benefit of this will be you will get directly connected to your targeted audience, that means, maximum exposure. But before all this you need a huge fan-following.
Starting a new business and promoting it is an essential step on should take... and now days... promoting your product/services is not that hard.. You can take help of social networking sites, since this are the best way to get in light, contact with people, see what they are looking for or promote your business through building fan-following in site like Facebook and Twitter, but getting loyal fan is not that easy task.. you need to build you image in-front of then by providing quality material, people are always in hunt of new material, provide what they want..