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Best way to advertise your site?
I always see everyone with sites that are being visited 1000 times a day. Because of some reason I just can't get my site being visited regularly.
My current site is a radio located on F63.net (if you are going to say something about the lay-out read the last part of this post) and I'm advertising it on 2 forums (with this topic on 3) and I only get a few visitors a day.
What am I doing wrong?
Layout -> I can remember I saw a provider somewhere selling really cheap and small vps'es and their site was nothing more than a little ascii art and a order form. Not sure if it was a legal host but I liked the simplicity of that layout so much I decided to create something like that for my radio also. Doesn't need to be awesome, it needs to work 
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Best way? Pay for advertising.
Well, it's a radio station, who listens to those online these days?
I prefer online over FM/AM tbh.
Don't mind paying something. But what is the best site and way to do it?
Site advertising, forums, contacts?
Since you have no readable content for the googlebot, I guess SEO is out of the question. But how about you market your radio on forums that are all about the music your radio plays? And create short clips of music on youtube, people might be searching for the music and then learn about your radio. Use social media to keep them engaged after they already like your radio and maybe reach some of their friends.
There are enough possibilities as long as you have enough time on your hands, of course you could pay for advertising but that would only make sense if you made some money with the radio or at least are planning on making money with it.
If you're willing to change your layout or site all together, you should keep the simplicity but instead of dark colors I would use light colors because people have to keep your site open in order to listen. It's a proven fact people don't like to be at dark colored sites and usually close them much quicker.
If you'd add some content to your site about the radio then people could find you through Google.
P.s. I'm sorry this reply's a mess, I'm tired.
@ztec
Don't worry, best post right now. Thanks
Paying for advertising these days is one of the best ways. You can advertise in local newspaper columns etc to target certain audiences and gain hits as a result.
Why don't you setup a forum, or a blog?
bump up a lot of old threads to get your post count over 5 so you can post a free offer on LET? //sarcasm
The first mistake was paying for Wavestreaming, when you can run an Icecast server on a box managed by yourself with less limits.
1. Article posting with your site name
2. Newspaper advertisement
3. Advertise on News TV(cheaper then entertainment channels)
4. Buy advertisement on LEB,LET
5. Advertise on Airport(buy banner space)
6. Advertise through Shop/mall,etc..
7. Talk to shop owners and ask them to share your card to their customers(pay money... its cheap)
8. Advertise in college area (share your visiting card or advertisement page )
9. Buy Add space in Metro Station
10. Advertise in Air(costly.. Pay money to Skydivers to use your shirt, banner)
11. Give a T-shirt with your company name to LEB users at free of cost
12. Go to computer shop and make a deal with him, give your advertisement stickers and ask them to place your stickers on computer box,etc..
13. Always wear your company t-shirt
14. In holidays buy a ticket of Disneyland, buy a cloth for your family and print your company name on their clothes then go to Disneyland or anywhere..
15. On your Kid school bag print your company name.
16. Buy 500 newspappers and give this to peoples at free of cost(don't forget to put your advertisement copy in this news paper)
17. Give a free coffee to peoples and tel him why you are giving this(eg: ask him to told about your company to his friends, homes)
18. Arrange a party and invite some peoples from internet, etc or who live near your house(who live near your house)
19. Help peoples and tell him that you are a owner of XYZ company and in return If he want then he can tell about your company to his friends, homes,etc...
20. Buy 20 Games CD, invite peoples on your blog to join a contest and winner will win a free game CD from XYZ company..
If you need more tricks then reply me
Make some flyers and go to some local stores and ask if you can put them out buy the register, maybe make a video ad and try to get it on a local news station.
I tried paying for a tweet the a large audience the other day - hopeless.
I never paid for wavestreaming, neither did I for shoutcast.
@jhadley - Tweets don't work, I tried that as well. If you have a strong stomach you can try controversy; I know a hosting company located in the northern mid-west of the United States that controversy has worked for... for a while at least.
Get on Google as many times as you possibly can. People will then be bound to click on your site more often.
I rather like the simplicity of your site. Seems like it has rather a niche market, so why not target places where your target audience might go, like specific clothing shops, shops specialising in vinyl music, independent record shops. I've never tried it myself, but Facebook advertising lets you be incredibly targetted according to people's preferences in their profiles. You could only deliver advertising to hardstyle and dubstep music fans.
and I was right! LOL
@taronyu Ah sorry, the player was from wavestreaming so I thought you were hosting with them. Costs way too much so I just wanted to look out that's all.
@Maurice
Nah I'm using the free player. Might be interrested in icecast because it is totally free. Right now I don't got enough listeners to put some real effort into it.
@mark i like it too, working on a few simple front end services with just a page, hope he Keeps trying..
@taronyu i am working with some companies right now that have exploded in the past year. One main word comes to mind.. Social. Social media, social marketing, social campaigns, podcasts, Pinterest, facebook, twitter, sharing and most of all... Social!