Advertising Your Website Link.

Having a Website, blog, splash page, an affiliate link or even a forum post or an article on the internet is almost the same thing as creating a new product or idea in real life.
You want people to see it, patronize it, get it's meaning, it's significance, you want to reach out to a crowd of alike or similar people like yourself, a target audience you want, which are more than likely to understand you and your product and probably patronize your idea or product.
This is a great dream which can only be actualized by you making your idea or product known to the public (advertising). Just hosting a website online or posting a blog post and hoping for people to somehow come across it is not just enough.
It takes alot of hardwork and great advertising strategies to get people interested in you and what you are selling.
In real life, a salesman's appearance and composure is usually what gets him noticed, his pitch and how convincing he sounds is what gets him sales. The same logic applies to websites, but here we are more concerned with getting your site noticed.

The first step in generating people's interest in your site is "advertising" and just like the salesman, the number of interest generated by your site ads starts with its appearance. It's theme, text structure, graphics quality, it's design.
A catchy or trending theme usually piques or attracts curiosity from an audience and curiosity i've heard is one of the hardest feeling to deny.
Now there are numerous means of advertising your website, with some more cheaper than others while some more effective (would get back to this later)

The second step is maintaining your audience's interest long enough for them to get the information you are trying to deliver about your product. A good and well organized interactive website design can help you accomplish this.

Another method of redirecting traffic to your site is via search engines optimization popularly referred to as "SEO". There are lots of searches carried out daily on search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and a lot more. Having your site listed among the search results of searches related to your area of expertise or services could have your website receiving a buttload of traffic. Manipulating SEO is a field that requires some level of experience on how the internet works, understanding web languages, and a willingness to explore and research keywords relevant to your sites and searches made on search engines and how they could be manipulated to get you listed among the top search results.

Means of advertising includes; banners, text ads,safelists, traffic exchange sites, ptc sites, social media networks, website directories, classified board sites and so on.

A research on advertising mediums should be carried out before engaging one and a budget prepared tailored to suit your advertising needs.