You have a new website and have spent time and money on design and development. Now your site is live, but you are not getting many people visiting your website. If this sounds like where you are then read on.

I like the saying that the worst designed website that everyone knows about is better than the best designed website that no one knows about; build it and they will come just does not cut it in the world on line.

So you have figured out that no one knows about you new website; how do you go about changing that quickly?

Here I will show you a few tips to get traffic and spread the word of your site quickly and correctly.

First, what is this best form of advertising?Yes it is word of mouth, so lets look at ways we can spread the word of our new website. First, social networking; this allows you and others to quickly spread the word on social networking sites like Facebook, digg and many others; the best is to set up accounts for your new venture in many of these. I have found that digg, Twitter and Facebook work the best, but it does depend on your content.

After doing a few social networking you will start to notice a small increase of traffic; make sure what you have on these is interesting; this will help the spread of your site.

Videos anyone?

What a perfect way to get brand awareness with little cost. It is like TV advertising without the large cost. Set up a YouTube account and spend some time to create a video about your site; once again make sure it is not boring, this will spread the word of your domain and get people interested in your site.

Make sure you have fresh content and engage users to re-visit your site, so a news or newsletter feature works well.

One thing many online companies sometimes forget is offline advertising and networking; for a small investment get some business cards; you will be surprised on who you meet and how this can get a network of contacts quickly.