How to start drive traffic and make people place an ad on new boating website?

Question

Hi everybody!
Our company has created power sport portal and now we need to attract users and dealers. And not just drive traffic but convince people to place an ad. Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

Anna

Answer 1

You can look into the major passive advertisers like "Google Adsense", "Yahoo Publisher (if your are a USA site), "Amazon.com" Also a trick I used is have a section on my site entitled "Place your Link" here..You can also visit the major boating companies (that you use) website and look for a "affliate advertising" link, as for more traffic, I will provide a helpful link for you that helped me out

Answer 2

There are a number of free resources available to advertise your website and increase traffic. You can advertise on relevant free classifieds ( www.craigslist.org) ,directories (dmoz) and relevant forums. Major search engines like Yahoo, Google , MSN search are a major source of visitors for most websites and you can submit your website to these search engines for free. You can also run contests offering prizes to regular visitors. I have found the following website useful
http://tinyurl.com/n547z

Answer 3

Let me give you the practical advice: 1) Pay-per-click advertising (fastest method but be careful on costs) 2) Search Engine Optimization (slowest but most effective method as it give you free traffic) 3) Blogging (fun but slow way) 4) E-mail marketing (most effective way in most cases) 5) Video posting (can be quite effective) 6) Article submission (time intensive but gets quality traffic)

Answer 4

For finest SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION results I suggest employing Google Search Bot: http://is.gd/gsbsoftware Applying this software I have rated our web site to very first page of Google on a extremely high competing search phrase.

Answer 5

Host controversial forums like "anarchysailing.com".