Courtesy Redif-on the NET

1. Make the following sites your first stop-over points in your promotion efforts :

   	Siteowner (http://www.siteowner.com) and
   	Websitegarage (http://www.websitegarage.com/).

   Use these sites to run a series of tests to check how promotion-friendly your site is, and then make the necessary changes and modifications.
   That taken care of, you could go back to both Siteowner and Websitegarage to register your homepage instantly with multiple search engines for free.
   

2. list your site in relevant sections of web directories available on the Net. This is even easier if your personal mini website has a focus - maybe on advertising, humour, love, or some unique hobby. You could use Submit-It.com or RegisterIt.com to mass-announce your site to many search engines and directories.
3. Websites with a particular theme often link up, forming a webring. This way visitors to one site can find similar pages by surfing around the webring. Rediff Personal Homepages will soon group user's pages with a common theme together, so make sure you keep your interests updated.
4. You could also write in to your local Internet columnist, telling him/her why your site would interest his/her readers. One student who was planning to study abroad had, in the course of his search, collected a comprehensive list of post-graduate colleges abroad. He put all this information on his homepage, sorting colleges by the streams offered, complete with hyperlinks to the individual homepages of the colleges. His homepage got a mention in the weekly Internet column, simply because readers would benefit tremendously. Do visit Lyndon Cerajo's Column
5. You definitely would have received emails with witty one-liners at the end of the email. Don't let that space go to waste in the emails that you send out. Create a standard email signature and set up your email so that it gets appended to the end of your email. Don't make it too big - just a line with your URL and your email address usually suffices.
6. Try banner exchange programs available for free on the Net. Visit (http://www.linkexchange.com) or Bannerswap (http://www.bannerswap.com) to find out how you too can place banner advertisements for free.