I've been playing around with
Pligg lately and produced
MTBvibe.com as my latest personal project.
MTBvibe.com - The Latest Downhill, Freeride and 4X Mountain Biking News
After it's launch not too long ago I proceeded to promote the website using a few basic techniques, which helped gain a little traffic but failed to develop a core user base.
Can anyone suggest any further (non-spammy) methods of promotion to hopefully kick start the website?
Techniques used so far:
Messaged a range of users on Flickr with mountain biking photos to check out the site and add them to the MTBvibe group. - Helped populate the Flickr badge on the website and generate some traffic.
Emailed admins/authors of the main websites I visit explaining the nature of the site and asking to spread the word in their articles if they found the idea interesting - No action or replied from most.
Posted topics on mountain biking forums - First batch of posts were deleted so I rewrote the post to be more informal for the second wave on the remaining forums, most of which also deleted.
Temporarily added to the
Blog.SpoonGraphics blogroll to pass on some Google juice.
Stumbled, Dugg and Delicious'd for the sake of it
Continued to add content to keep the site updated.
An idea I might go ahead with is to have a bunch of stickers made and hand them out at the next race I attend.
Any further ideas, suggestions and general comments welcome
