Where should I place my ads!?
Believe it or not some of the top sites today are all designed around...you! Research has shown that depending on where you put your ads on
your website the differences in earnings from said ads are significantly less when a site is based solely around looks. Luckly for us, we are not the first ones to use advertisements on our websites and others have done so before us! 
. Here is a heat map of how your basic design should look for optimal performance from your ads. The darker zones indicate where most people look when visiting a website and where you should put your content and your ads respectively.
Google has also has published a list of the highest performing ad sizes:
336×280 large rectangle
300×250 inline rectangle
160×600 wide skyscraper
YouTube Autoplay Trick
Here's a new trick I have been using on Myspace.com that has worked wonders in terms of gaining views insanely fast! (This is a little black-hat so if you don't like that kind of stuff, stop reading this )
OK heres the trick...
YouTube has a small function that is unbenounced to most people, that is the auto play function. Using a simple line of code you can alter the embedable code of any Youtube video to get it to automatically play when a user visits the page! Thus if you go on Myspace and add users who allow html in their comments section (You can tell if they have banners and ads in their comments section - to do this I usually add bands only because it's less obvious what you are trying to do). Once you have added a bunch of bands and other people who have html enabled in their comments section, its time to start posting!
To soften what some might precieve as spam do something like this:
Heyy,
Love the Music! Keep it up!!
Regards,
YOUTUBE VIDEO WITH AUTOPLAY
Bands will be compelled to leave it on their page because you have given them a nice comment .
Now when anyone comes to visit that users Myspace page your video will autoplay and you will get thousands upon thousands of easy views if you post on multiple profiles. Here's the code!
EMBED CODE:
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Now put it "&autoplay=1" like below:
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk&autoplay=1"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk&autoplay=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
And your done! Now soak up the free views as much as you can!
NOTE:
DO NOT do this if you have under 300 views on your video... it seems that YouTube now freezes videos that are flagged for unusual amount of views and they freeze your video for a time that they choose...Other than that, go for it!
Word Of Mouth :D
I can't stress enough how important word of mouth is in your marketing campaign... it's pretty simple really, but it yields the most effective results compared to any other type of marketing you do! -- Provide a good service, others talk about your service, and this continues hopefully forever. Think of it like this, how often did you or have you seen Google ads? Have you ever seen a Google advertisement? Google is one of the most successful websites to date... and all it took was a little word of mouth marketing .
Twitter Marketing!!
Twitter is quickly becoming one of the most popular used sites in the world, and a mass of marketing potential is at your fingertips! I use this site everyday to add followers to my account and it has simply done wonders! I reached around 2500 followers in under a week! Check it out for yourself:
http://www.twiends.com
How it works...
You sign up using your twitter account and follow other people through the Twiends website. Every time you follow someone you get a certain number of points. Your Twitter account is then posted on the website and once you collect points for following other people, they can follow you and you give points to them. It is sort of has a circle-like effect but it works wonders on your follower count and your potential marketing base!
Video Marketing
YouTube is another powerful tool when deciding what to do for marketing. Creating a viral video or viral videos' has been proven by many entrepreneurs to be a great successor when looking for cheap and easy ways to promote any business. Look around on YouTube and if you fail, try, try again until you hit the right one!
List of Do-Follow Forums
Here is a collection of do-follow forums that you can browse:
Site Point Forums
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/
Digital Point Forums
http://forums.digitalpoint.com
WebHostingTalk
MySQL Forums
Submit Express
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/
NamePros
Comic Book Resources
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/
Startups
DN Forum
Harmony Central Forums
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/
Webmaster Forums
http://www.webmaster-forums.net/
Web Master World
http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/
Payment Processing
http://www.smallbusinessforums.org/
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums/
SEO
Geek Point
Experience Advertising
http://www.experienceadvertising.com/forum/
Web Talk Forums
http://www.earnersforum.com/forumsindex.php
http://forums.seroundtable.com/
http://www.davidcastle.org/BB/
Site Owner Forums
http://siteownersforums.com/index.php
9MB Forums
Online Book Club
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/
Webcosmo
Body Building Web Forums
http://www.bodybuildingweb.net/forum/
Webicy Forums
Wares Wrapper Forums
Warrior Forum
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/
http://www.lex224.com/forums/index.php
No-Follow VS Do-Follow Links
You have to be careful when submitting your link to directories and such as sometimes they are not always "followable" links. No-Follow links are on a lot of blogs and some websites as a way to deter spam. The basis behind it is that because everyone wants more "votes" or backlinks to their website, people will spam other websites hoping to gain backlinks as quickly as they can - To prevent this, no-follow is now used. If No-Follow is on a website, that link can no longer count as a "vote" to your site, and thus a waste of time. The only value you are getting out of it is for marketing purposes.
If you want to check how many sites are linking to you check out http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com .
10 Tips to Traffic Generation
Here are some useful tips to help get your site going:
1. Submit your website to link directories.
2. Use newspaper ads to direct visitors to your site. (Not recommended as its hard to "click" on a newspaper )
3. Buy targeted traffic campaigns from traffic service providers (Not recommended but works well for short term traffic).
4. Make a business card with your website and give it to your friends or leave it in car or train.
5. Post articles frequently on popular article sites such as ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com about your website.
6. Post free inexpensive classified ads.
7. Join popular seo forums and make frequent contribution with your website link as signature.
8. Find a blog that suites your website content and make feedback to that blog - remember that feedback should be genuine so that it cannot be recognized as a spam - include your website link there.
9. Use signature links on different forums to gain back-links to your website.
10. Write an ebook about your subject of website and give it away for free.
