How to Kick Start a new website?

Find an established site with an established product and contact the creator, ask if they would be interested in offering their customers (email list) a free product?

It can work...but not everyone will say yes, so you have to be patient and determined!

Post high quality content, market your website using blog commenting, video marketing, forum marketing, etc. Get involved in social media, etc.

If it is a free product, you get somebody to send the traffic to your website...then the person signs up to your list, to receive the free product.

Social media is a good choice if you want to give a hige boost to your brand new website. Also try to create articles, free reports, ebooks about it which will increase your exposure.

I am using tumblr as the only source of traffic, it is not like I am too lazy to make quality article, etc. I am using it because it works for me. Tumblr really helped my latest site go viral a day after it was launched. I hit a new popular trending niche, started a website for it, connected tumblr to my wordpress site using an autocross post plugin to do all the work for me on tumblr. In that plugin I targeted all the trending or popular channels and set them to be targeted in every post. The traffic from tumblr can reach around 600 visitor a day.

Are you able to host a contest?

I've had great success with contests ~ added people to my email list and my social networks. As well as drive traffic to my site.

I think you are referring how to promote your new site? If you have budget, get some paid visitors via fb. If you are comfortable with youtube video, make one and post it on fb for free. Article for long tail keywords might work too but I'm no seo guy.

Don't even bother with SEO unless you have a couple of years to spare for doing not much else. Not kidding.

Yes, you should post some content first. But if you don't promote your content than it's won't matter.
So I would suggest you post some content. 20-30 posts would be more than enough.
Start promoting it.
You can use social media. FB, Twitter. Youtube.
Solo ads can be useful as-well.
Forum marketing can be great in some niches.

If you really want to focus on growing your own list of subscribers, you might want to direct the traffic to the squeeze page. If you are using blogging to get visitors to come to your blog, you will want to make sure that the opt in form is obvious so that they will know where to opt in.

For my marketing campaign, I will have a mixture of free and paid traffic generation methods so that the traffic will not completely dies off when one source is not bringing any traffic.

What people don't understand is for every post you put on your blog takes 4 to 6 hours of work to get traffic to your blog to read the post.

After you make a post to your blog, you search out other blogs that used the same or similar key words you used in your post. These need to be blogs that will approve your posts if you post on their blog.

The plan is to post on at least 3 blogs that gives a reference to the post you made on your blog. These need to be honest posts.

Now if your post is not automatically approved you need to save the url of the page your post is on in these other blogs. When your posts are approved you go to different social sites like dig and twitter and post about your post on these other sites giving the url of the page your post is on.

You may do this on 8 to 10 different social sites.

After you have posted to these social sites about your posts there then you can post about the post on your blog.

You can get kicked off these social sites if you just post about your blog.

Once you finish all this work for one post, you will begin to see traffic begin to come to your blog. You must do 3 to 5 posts a week for at least 3 months and then you can slow down just a little.

This is because you will begin to get regular followers of your blog posts.

The idea that you can put a bunch of posts on a blog and traffic will come is a bunch of crap.

It can be done with a single blog but it is a lot of work unless you can find a way to outsource some of the tasks. But this is how you can jump start your blog.

I hope this has been helpful,
Steve Yakim

bottom line - you need to ask yourself this question, let it incubate in your head for longer than you want, then your creativity will flow through.

Sometimes the best ideas come only through your own creativity, rather than asking people - this is my experience so I thought i would share.

This thread was helpful and had some great ideas. Thanks to Graham Madison for the plug in suggestions and thanks to Yakim1 for the detailed explanation on how to promote a blog post. I hope more warriors can throw some ideas out there.

Hey Beatrice. I would work on it constantly for a few months. I built a Wordpress site from scratch and I put up an article about every three days. The other days I concentrated on building a social network, and back links to try and direct traffic to my site. You can always use automated things like buffer to help you out with Facebook and twitter as you can schedule posts and tweets about your chosen topic. Make post to ezine articles, squidoo etc to grab a back link or two.

Maybe do out a weekly plan to help you manage it a bit tighter. While a lot of content is really good idea, it's also important to try and direct traffic towards your new site especially at the start so you can start to gain traction.

Let us all know how you go.

You could try creating some unique videos based on the niche of your website and upload them to YouTube ...

No that would have no benefit whatsoever. You have no traffic so no one is going to be reading them so you just be wasting your content. Posting to your site doesn't get you traffic. Post once a week at most and spend the rest of your time promoting the blog / content.

Some ways to get traffic would be article syndication, guest blogging, reddit, video marketing, blog commenting, forum posting with signatures, banner ads, PPC, solo ads, Q&A sites etc etc etc.

If you speak of a traffic kick start, you should definitely consider engaging users through social media exposure. To list a few: reddit, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, twitter as well as reaching out to potential customers via YouTube.

Sincerely,
mindwire

Solo ads are a good option.

Only post when you have something worth posting about.
You don't need to post every day, week etc.
Put a few articles up to begin with and social bookmark them to get some traction in the search engines. Submit those same articles to the top 5 article directories. Add some videos to YouTube with the links pointing back to your site.

I'm in the same boat. Although my domain name is over a year old, I just started working on my site just under two months ago. In fact I started March 14th. I am keeping track because I want to see how long it takes to rank and start making money.

I am a few days away from 2 months and already a few of my keywords are starting to show up on the 2nd and 3rd page of google. That may not sound like much, but my words are slowly moving up in ranking.

What I have done is...I was researching my keywords (using market samurai) and finding medium traffic keywords with low competition and then writing an article based around that one keyword. I'm averaging about 3 articles a week, which is much less than I want, but with a full time job, it's the best I can do right now.

I have also started working on back-links. I actually bought a few back-links (using fivver) from PR3 and PR4 websites in the same niche. Those actually seemed to work fairly well. I am also guest posting on other health sites and have written a few articles that link back to my site.

There are other back-linking techniques that I am using as well....but have been kind of moving slow on those.

Go to backlinko.com and listen to Brian. He is also a regular here and can be found in the SEO forum. That guy is a stud and knows what he is talking about. He also answers his emails with any questions you have.

Based on what I'm doing...he gave me some really good advice which was to find good keywords with okay traffic, but low competition and write articles around them in order to rank in google with them. Each keyword may only have a few thousand searches a month, but they start to add up. AND they are easy to rank for. So that's been one of my strategies and sure enough, those are the keywords that are already landing on page two of google.

I think patience is key here. It's not going to happen over night. I've been waiting two months and am just starting to see traffic trickling in and a few people signing up for my newsletter, but each week it gets a little better, just have to stick with it.

Good luck and I'm telling you, check out Brian's site, it will be completely worth it.

Heath

Yes backlinko.com is a great SEO site but you should not simply be focusing on SEO it's usually a long, slow, and unpredictable road with no guarantee. Look into other forums of getting traffic and you'll likely see quicker results.

Do you maintain your website yourself? Is it only you who manage your website or you have a team or a people with you?

If you are alone maintaining your website then you must be able to update it frequently not just once a month.

Facebook paid traffic is awesome in my knowledge and content is the king update your website with fresh articles every 3 days u ll get the difference.