Hint, if you have web sites you are referring from, go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/
and "stumble upon" your own sites (you'll get added to their popular links list for people who are seeking the same type sites.)

Also, many search engines and indices (plural for index) will allow you to submit your whole referral link (and some wont.) I knew someone that got his referral link for another site posted on the FIRST PAGE of Google and made a killing in referrals !

Go here:
http://www.ineedhits.com/free-tools/submit-free.aspx

and submit your referral links free and easy.


...or pay the almost three bucks for a better submit (it's worth it.)

...another hint:

Go to ShiftCode based GPT sites (Google "shiftcode gpt site" and use their banner advertising options (usually cheap with good exposure.) They allow you to draw their members away (? idunno why ? / counter-productive in my mind) (if you have a good pitch on your banner.)

Another hint:

Buy or earn yourself a snappy domain name and have it redirect (the whole domain) to your referral link (you don't even need hosting.) Then promote your new domain to the search engines, indices, and forums. It helps not having the obvious referral link look.

Cheap domains start at just $5.95 with hosting at www.NetFirms.com or just go to one of the domain based lagoon sites to earn one (I won't advertise other sites here out of respect.) If you need a better hint on the places you can earn a free domain name just pm me here (if they have it turned on) or email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

...another hint:

Start blogging about your referral sites / links at https://www.blogger.com/start Blogger is Google based and is your best chance at a popular blog with a great Google rank. Google regularly favors their own blogs based on their own blog site interface (and it doesn't hurt to promote this blog to other search engines and indices as well.)

Another good blog site with max exposure is the ebay based blogs. Make an ebay blog and promote it as well.


Here's a link to my simple, cheesy, outdated, but PRODUCTIVE (surprisingly) ebay blog:
http://blogs.ebay.com/wbibro

HINT:

Go to http://selfpromotion.com/ to promote your sites in detail for free with a nice powerful submission interface (optional - send them $20 if you appreciate their services - I did.)

Hint:

Think of a unique niche of people that might appreciate getting paid online from home and post to forums covering that niche.

...for example, people with some sort of social anxiety (such as argoraphobia, etc.) or other homebound people might want to learn about sites like these, etc. etc.

The jury is still out on this stunt but it deserves a mention (I actually did it but didn't notice measurable results.)

Go to your local grocery store and ask for a stack of those yellow (or whatever) cards that they have pre-made for posting on their bulletin board.

Take them home and use your pc/word processor/ and printer (may have to hand feed depending upon size) to print out announcements.

Go back to the store later and post them.

TIP: For this to work best it would be better if you had your own domain name either with your referral link on it, or forwarding to your referral link (people are lazy and greedy nowadays, they don't know that signing up under your referral link doesn't matter to them (doesn't take money away from them), most people - when presented with an obvious referral link will just type in the URL directly - for some odd reason.)


Also, make up business cards (like the free ones at VistaPrint - just pay S&H) and get to the office early one day... place one on each of your co-worker's keyboards without them noticing... when they have a bored minute or two you have a good chance of them getting curious and checking it out.)

Invest in a stick of permanent adhesive and visit your local public pay phones - post one of your business cards on each (making them just sticky enough to stay, but easy enough to take.)

Go to your local public library, "accidentally" leave one of your business cards at each public internet terminal (oops! - smile.)

I read a few days ago about a kid who regularly went to the top of the Empire State Building and threw his referral business cards off when the guard wasn't looking. I have just one quote here from "Woodsy" the owl - "Give a hoot, Don't pollute" :-)

Purchase web site promotional software that will automate your site submission efforts.

I sprang $100 and change for a nice app that submits my sites and pages automatically with the least amount of effort on my part. It's called "All-in-one-Submission" but it's a bit clunky - there are better ones out there - I'm just stuck with this one (SUCKER!) - but it does what it says it does (just not a "polished" app like one would expect after forking over a hundred bucks.)

Oh, and don't get fooled by software / services that say they will promote your site(s) to 30,000 search engines, etc. Chances are 95% of those sites will be Free For All (FFA) sites which no human ever looks at (at one time FFA sites increased your "link popularity" - which mattered then - but all respectable search engines and indices have learned to ignore them now - seeing their obvious abuse and non-consequence.) Anyways, what's the point? Most FFA sites want you to manually confirm your entry nowadays (want 80 or 90 emails to respond to personally - go ahead and submit to useless FFA sites.)