# How to promote a website

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-promote-a-website/413915>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-promote-a-website/413915 "2007-08-01T02:51:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-promote-a-website/413915/1 "2007-08-01T02:51:27Z")

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I had a foolish idea for a website but I’m running with it. I don’t want to post the URL here because frankly it’s a site to make me money and I don’t want to do that off this site.

What I need are suggestions on how to promote the site to a wide audience (without spam)

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**Author:** ![I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9fc29f/32.png) [@I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_Ron_Burgundy)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-promote-a-website/413915/2 "2007-08-01T15:12:38Z")

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Get other sites to link to your content, put a link to your site in your signature and post on message boards that relate to your site, advertise (on or offline). Optimize your site for search engines and submit your site to search engines.