Best way to generate traffic before launch?

I would say article marketing and trying to get these articles to rank high enough to get some organic search engine traffic. Also, you could get some traffic and subscribers from using Twitter. There are tons of people on there that could be interested in your niche (whatever it is).

If you have your own list then simply create a video and tell them the benefits of whatever the subject of your product is, don't tell them you have a product for them just yet.

A few days, later hype them up and tell them that your almost done working on something big that is going to help them. Finally, email them with a video that spills the beans and direct them to your website.

This is one great way of launching a product but I suggest you get some JV partners and tell them to follow the same steps and give them all the material they need so all they have to do is copy & paste the material to advertise to their own lists. Hope this helps..

Best Regards,
-Alex Kaplo

All good advice. Kept notes for my future product launch. The emails I get tell me that others are using their massive list two weeks prior to the launch to generate hype.

Back links are great and all........but the real truth is getting ranked super high on google top 10 page rankings....and you want in a very high traffic subject matter, such as ( Internet Fun.....keyword rank over 290,000,000 pages ) or .... so you have to do some re-search and study the market and then beat everyones websites.
One clue, having more backlinks than everyone else doesn't matter as much as high content website, with perfectly placed keywords.
And I do not believe in any software that can do this better than the humand mind still.........I know people will disagree with me, but my websites I have created for other people rank in the top pages, every single one of them almost.I average close to 90% top rankings.
Maybe there's a software out there that can do better, but I have not seen this yet. And I have been ranking sites since 1993.

But if your looking to sell a website, you'll need tons of backlinks coming from websites with subject matters related to your own.
The higher your PR ranking the better you'll sell your web site.
Yet I have seen PR3 websites that far out rank PR6 websites in the top 10 rankings on google. So if your running an affiliate program making money, then I'd go for the higher google ranking first and worry about backlinks second.
Also building a name in Social Media can take time, don't just post links, for the sake of posting links, make sure you say something positive.
Or people won't respect your links.

Remember Ranking high on Google isn't Spamming.....but you still will need some solid links before google will rank you. I look at google as a puzzle, fit the pieces together right and you'll get ranked once you know what to look for. It isn't magic, it's common sense.

Any particular social networks I should check out specifically? Digg? Delicious? Stumble?

Check out blogs and forums related to what you're selling.
If it's cars.........find all the top 10 car foums and start posting 5 to 10 posts a day on each for a few months....yes it will take a couple hours, but........think about how far you'll go.
Also I like googles Blogspot,digital Point, Warrior forum,topix,and many blogs in the music industry for me.

Also, anybody have any tips on using twitter?

Check this post out about "Hype"

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...what-hype.html

- Jared

I think all the contributions are okay

What id do is create a series of vidoes about my product and how it can help people and post one video every few days and post that on my blog and then ping it everywhere. Id also upload that video to all video sharing sites.

Id get get those visitors to optin to receive my future vidoes and then once they are in my autoresponder id send them scheduled mail about my soon to be launched product then follow up that way.