best way to advertise a site?

[-Tigger-]

i have started up a BF2 stats site..

http://www.bf2stats.myfileplace.com/

i have never made a site that has so much "potential" to be popular, whats the best way to get my site spread around the network?

[Hellfighter]

VIEW YOUR BATTLEFIELD 2 STATS HERE

i gone there it don't list me, oh i have to buy the game right lol dang some much for dreaming.
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have to get a GFX-Card first, then i get maybe BF2 later on.

not play any games now for 4mo getting to me, i was almost asleep? think i seen Delta force guy running by my windows holding a M60 in his hand? this is getting real bad.

i still going to get 3more 1024mb RDD2 Ram cards (4GB ram) and a GFX-Card Pcie 16x type. i'll be set.
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really would love to have stats on your site sounds sweet as hell

[Scattergun]

It wont find me / forgot my pid Lmao!

I also registered.

Look i found them Not very impressive played for bout 2 1/2 hours

http://www.myfileplace.com/site2/e10...?name=65136032

[-Tigger-]

anyone want to answer my question about advertising then? lol

hoping to get the sigs working today

[Jeff]

Here's how.
Find multiple website directories and list it under games, if they have a BF section then there aswell.
This will help your search engine coverage.

Next, do a bunch of link exchanges.
Whether it's on sites or in people's signatures on high traffic forums.
This will stir up a few hits here and there.

Submit news to all gaming sites you know that have anything to do with BF2, make sure your message is clear, consise and informative.

Lastly you might need to pay for advertising if you want to get a mass of traffic. Paying for advertising on large BF2 communities will draw in a wealth of traffic and get you booming. Generally this could cost up to 80$/m if they're large websites.

Hope this helps.

[-Tigger-]

thanks m8, will look into your suggestions

[Lakie]

Mostly building on Jeffs post...

get it on www.dmoz.org people knock it, but its one of the best ways to get your site in the search engines...

www.wikipedia.org - find articles and see if your site would reasonabely fit into the external links section...

Join the bigger top100 and some of the better banner exchanges on bf2 specific sites. Join the BF2 communities, ask for "site feedback" if theres an appropriate forum and plug the site diplomatically when you can, become known. Biggest thing with this is to stick around, noone will take you seriously if your post count is 2 and one of those is a lol post and the other is asking for site feedback....

Remember the power of squads, if 1 member is happy with your site they are likely to spread the word to their squadmates.

Network, know of other sites that do the same thing for other games? Network with them and bounce some business each way, also has potential for reciprical advertising therefore not costing you anything...

Find a niche or something unique not offered by anyone else, easier said than done but it can work wonders for your site to a extent NHQ has done this with Subdomains amoungst other things, give people and excuse to come to the site. How about a email contact forwarder thing, send an email to pid@bf2stats.com and it gets forwarded to a email acocount with a site tag, allows people to hide their email address from the general public and could create a easy way for the whole community to communicate....