Being a novice website developer the hardest part of creating a new website is getting actual people to look at your website. Coming up with the next great idea seems to be the easy part but it will never be a real success if you are the only person reading your work.

I have been doing some experimenting with this problem and here are some of the things that seem to work for me.

1. Social Bookmarking – this is my number one pick because in large it has brought the Lions to share of the traffic to my site, there are some great sites that do this and you can get them by google search with the keyword ( Social Bookmarking ) and start leveraging them on a weekly basis

You can submit a link to one of your stories with a brief description and if it interests the rests of the social bookmarking site you might make it to the homepage. as it will be a plus ,plus once your article make it to the front page

2. Article Directories – I have to admit that there are a lot of crappy articles on most article directories so if you put your well-written article on one it is bound to get snapped up by hundreds of content starved websites looking for new stories all they will all have backlinks pointing to you

3. Forums Posting – e.g { Nairaland } This has got to be the most time consuming one if you do it correctly you must find people who might have some interest in your site, in my case those are computer related forums and I try to help people with there computer problems and drop a link to my site in the signature or source box

But here, You Have To Be careful with this one please don’t spam forums with a bunch of junk just to get your link out there if you can add to a discussion or help another member most forum admins will not have any problems with you putting a link in your source.

4. Website crawled – This is one of the hardest things to do but it has the potential to pay off big if you get a good ranking from Google. One thing that needs to be checked is your Robots.txt file this allows search engine spiders to correctly craw your pages weekly

5. Directory Submissions – Submit your site to human edited web directories ” target the best directories”. start submitting your web pages and It will help your page rank and may even get you some traffic.

6. Link trading – Most sites with similar interests as yours will be more than happy to add a link to your site as long as you provide them with a reciprocal link.