Having your site listed in directories is basically a must at the moment and will generate some traffic (very little though) but having links to your site is likely to improve seo and pr rankings

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1.Write and submit articles . Yeh it has to be the same topic as you site is based on.
2. Put your sites link in forum signatures.
3.Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site.
4.Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature.
5.Keep updating content on your websites/blogs.
6.Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites, especially at http://del.icio.us/.
7.Politely ask your or encourage readers to subscribe to your rss feeds.
8.Encourage readers to comment on your blogs.
9.Include translation for your websites/blogs.
10.Do not be boring (simple)
11.Comment on other related blogs.
12.Make sure error pages (eg, 404) redirect to your site
13.Brand your website with a logo and a slogan/catch phrase.
14.Hold a contest that people in your niche will talk about. This will equal more links and traffic to your website.
15.Build a tool that individuals in your niche will love and enjoy. Then give it away for free.
16.Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
17.Open up a myspace account and find targeted friends so that you can promote your services to them. Do not spam people, myspace is cracking down on spammers and are starting to sue people.
18.Have an easy to remember domain name. If your domain name is too long or not memorable then people may forget your site.
19.Add a bookmark option to your website/blogs.
20.Stay up to date on what is going on in the world, you can monetize off hot topic trends.
21.Network, when you know more people you can find people that can help you get what you need.
22.Be funny, people like something that will make them laugh and they will spread it for you if it is a genius idea.
23.Answer people’s questions on Yahoo! answers with a link to your website in the sources area.
24.Make a sitemap for your website.
25.Use a favicon for your site.
26.Look at sites related to your niche to try to figure out how they get their traffic.
27.Properly optimize your website for the right keywords (seo)

Ok, choosing a hosting company is one of the first and one of if not the most important decisions you will need to make on your path to creating a website.

There are literally thousands of web hosting companies out there all with different things to offer so it can be confusing, frustrating and even intimidating.

The first step is seeing what you need in a host. What does your website and you require?

First find out roughly how much disk space and bandwidth you will need. You don’t want to pay more than you need to.

See what support the hosting company provides because as a person new to running a website you may need some if not allot of help.

Uptime is also a big thing try and make sure you hot guarantees over 99% uptime as you if your website goes down so will you earnings.

Extras check if you get a domain included, if you can host more than one site and other things like how many email address you can have (free).

Personally I don’t believe you need to spend over $8 a month if you are running a simple site. I run one of my site http://www.playswfgames.com on a $4.95 a month hosting plan with Lunarpages and as a game site it uses a lot of bandwidth but I have never had a problem with it.

My two top choices are Hostgator and Lunarpages both offer low prices (under $8/month) and both have unlimited disk space and bandwidth.

So check out Hostgator and Lunarpages and compare the two (pick which would be best for you)

-Cheers
Jason

As a webmaster one thing you should know about is SEO (search engine optimization). As the name suggest its about improving search engine results for you site and its keywords so you pull in more traffic.

Having your site ranked number one in a google search is the aim, as number one positions for google searches normally results in that site getting 80%+ of all traffic searching for that term.

A good starting point on your ever long search to fully understand seo can be found here
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html

Its written by google and a major search engine its probably a great way to start.

-Jason

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