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A good place for advertising is YouTube.

Did you know YouTube is the second largest search engine? YouTube is a powerful social media platform that helps you promote your website and services through video marketing.

Article Marketing is a type of advertising in which business write short articles about their services or products. The articles are usually about themselves or company. I have composed some of my favorite companies to submit article marketing.
Ezinearticles
Ehow
Hubpages
Articlesbase
Buzzle
Suite101

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Blog comments is another great way to increase traffic to your site. Make sure the blog comment is respectful, thoughtful, and the site your visiting is relevant to your niche.

Google analytics is a very useful free tool for tracking site statistics.

Google authorship is a free tool where you can have your picture appear next to your post. Google authorship will help get your face out there and it also creates a backlink to your website.

Writing press releases with embedded links and distributing them across newswire can give you a tremendous amount of traffic. I have enlisted a list of my favorite press release site.
PR.com
OpenPress.com
Free Press Release.com
Free Press Related Center.info
24 7PressRelease.com
1888PressRelease.com
PRBuzz.com
PR Compass.com
PR Urgent.com
Express Press Release.net
ClickPress.com
PR9.net
EcommWire.com
PRLog.org
I Newswire.com
PRLeap.com

Another method of driving traffic to your site is Pay Per Click. Its a method of advertising based on search engines. In order to drive more traffic to your site, you can bid on Keywords relevant to your niche. I have enlisted some of my favorite channels for buying PPC Ads.
Facebook Ads
Google Adwords Ads
Bing Ads
Ad Cash
Has Traffic
7 Search
YouTube Ads
LinkedIn Ads
Yahoo Ads