.....thought that would work. Does anyone know of other ways to get your site out there? I mean, you can post a thousand links in a thousand places, but lets face it, not a lot of us have the money to start a "campaign". I mean, if you want to get down and outright dirty (not to mention ignorant) you can join a few groups on Yahoo! or MSN, and post the living dead out of it. We all know what happens there. You can post your site on free classifieds sites. Prepare to delete some more spam. Or as Fitzpatrick said, stamp US currency with your website URL on it. The math on that one was mind boggling, as far as people reached. Lets say someone does do all these free things, can someone expect results using these methods? Of course if you post in a thousand groups, classifieds, and stamp bills all day long, you might see a change I assume. But is it worth the time and effort to see only a few visitors from these methods? If so, how can you gauge where visitors found your website name? I guess you could just ask them though.

Unfortunately, the word "FREE" has been beaten to death by spammers, scammers, and other people who should be in the slammer (thank you, thank you).

A good place to start would be dmoz.org. It's a free directory that a number of large and highly visited sites - including AOL and Google - use for content. It is freely available to download the entire directory, so it's easy to see why. Find the category most appropriate to your site, and click the add button on that page. As an added bonus, you automatically get a few free PageRank points from google for being listed there. Of course, the editors of those categories have final say as to what gets approved to be there, so make sure you're on topic, and that your description is helpful.

As for figuring out where people came from if they aren't coming from another web site, do what a lot of companies do. Use a special url, such as http://promo7.wherever.com. I'm sure you've seen ads on tv where the URL is different from the normal root. Now you know why. To make doubly sure they use that URL, offer them a special something to do so in the ad.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Mike,

I guess that is the electronic version of keying a street address. I think what I was trying to get to on that post was that just because something is free, doesnt really mean you get anything useful out of it. Such as the other day, there was a FREE seminar in my area on how to make money on the internet. Now, obviously there is a catch somewhere. Whether that catch is the email address I provided as a new potential member of his organization or whatever. To make a long story short, I didnt go to this FREE seminar. They even went as far as giving out free day planners, and a free dinner. That didnt even bring me in. I already have about 3 day planners that I dont use. Why didnt I go? Ive dealt with people in the Amway business for a few years, and I just didnt like the idea of another guru selling what worked for him, and not necessarilly what will work for me, and getting fed with another vision of someone elses success.

Anyways, thanks for throwing a little more knowledge my way, everyday I learn something new in here, and this forum is by far the best one I've ever been a member of. Keep doing what you guys and gals are doing. I for one, have learned so much here in the last 2 weeks, I keep coming back for more. A sincere thank you to all.

Do the dmoz thing I did. ;) Cant beat free.