Web Sites-How Can You Draw Users To Them?

Muad asks: "Suppose someone had a really cool site like /. - how do you get the word out? In other words, once the work is done, how do you build the hype and let your potential users know that the result of so much of your hard work is finally online? Granted, you could use a lot of money, but the really interesting question arises when you don't have a large marketing budget, or none at all." In the absence of an advertising budget, and after you've added your site to every search engine you can find (accurate entries, please) you still can't beat the word-of-mouth method as a way to get folks to visit your site. However, you will soon discover that the hard part isn't getting folks to visit the site...it's getting them to come back.