Let me kick this off with one of my favorite methods of website promotion: articles.

This is what I use when I want to bump a page - or even a site - in Google. I usually see the effect in Google within a week.

It is the fastest method I use to get valuable backlinks and indexing in the search engines. Better in my opinon than blogging and pinging.

Write a 500 word article with a keyword-targeted link back to your website in the resource box.

If I wrote the content for the website it is easy enough to modify the content for an article. If the content comes from other sources, then it takes a little longer, but not more than an hour.

Then submit to article directories with a good PageRank. I use ArticleSubmitterPro to automate most of the process. It lets me pick different directories for different articles, and to rotate different resource boxes for one article so that I can increase the range of targeted keywords.

I have a selection of about 40 'favorite' article directories pre-selected in the software, all with high PageRanks, that I can choose from to submit my article.

This is not just for a link from a high PR site and increased search engine visibility. I receive comments all the time from people who have read an article, like it, and are interested in more information.

Brian Kindsvater
http://InternetProfitUniversity.com