Best Way to Promote a New Site

Well my keywords would be different than yours, but it was very targetted keywords like: webmaster forum, programming forum, web design forum, web design discussion, programming help, etc. I used keywords that I felt people would type in if they wanted to find a community of people where they could join and interact. Don't go too general or the click might not convert into users that would participate.



I like your new design, clean and professional looking. There are a few bugs in it I noticed, but sounds like you already realize that since you said you still need to tweak it. I also agree, get your website finalized, create some basic content, and then start the advertising for some base members. You want to have enough on your site already so that the people that come to your site will signup and stick around. If you were to do that without any content on your website they would probably just leave.

Yeah I am working on building some content now. I have a few blog posts and still need to tweak the layout. Trying to recruit some of my friends to join the forum and get some discussion going so there is reason for visitors to stick around when they visit.

The developer I used to create the site did give me a list of targeted keyword phrases like these:

SE Query Annual Searches Occurrences (WWW) KEI
ny mets tv schedule 20 2 10
ny knicks on court 10 1 10
nfl cheerleader playoffs 5911 1610 8.48
nfl cheerleader screensaver 2157 2290 7.09
1969 topps mets 746 1060 6.88
new york rangers schedules 43 119 6.43
ny knicks fan page 51 154 6.31
ny giants rumors 33 105 6.3
new york rangers schedule 148 614 5.86
ny jets odds 19 118 5.62
nfl football wager 106 923 5.08
yahoo fantasy basketball 1494 10700 5.03
ny jets cheerleaders 38 393 5
ny mets score 19 242 4.84
ny yankees 2008 schedule 25 415 4.52
yahoo fantasy football 9713 96400 4.49
nba trade rumors 973 13600 4.35
nhl trade rumors 446 8400 4.1
new york mets schedule 396 8200 4.01
ny mets schedule 38 976 4.01
ny yankees hat 130 3100 3.97
jets cheerleaders 248 7390 3.66
ny giants schedule 86 3110 3.56
ny rangers schedule 12 544 3.51
new york islanders schedule 83 3390 3.43
new jersey devils schedule 79 3340 3.4
nfl football cheerleaders 74 3340 3.34
ny jets schedule 50 2790 3.15
nfl rumors 2576 107000 3.08
new jersey devils stanley cup 46 2880 3.04
nfl football scores 473 24300 3.02
new york knicks schedule 51 3200 3.02
ny jets football 188 10700 3

I guess this is a good place to start for Adwords?

SEO has 2 broad category On and Off page optimization...
ON PAGE OPTIMIZATION:

1 Meta Tag Optimization
2 Title Tag Optimization
3 Optimizing Meta Description
4 Link Enhancement
5 Broken Link Check
7 Alt Tag Optimization
8 Google XML Sitemap
9 Content optimization
10. Sitemap generation and submission of sitemap to Google and Yahoo


OFF PAGE OPTIMIZATION

1 Submission of subpages to top Directories
2 Manual Submissions to Search Engines
3 Manual Article Promotion to best Article directories
4 Press Release Publication to top sites during contract
5 International search engine submission
6 Forum Postings
7 Blog Promotion
8 Social Media Optimization

i think i can help you a lot

Just check above all comments...
they are all good an best way...

try Yahoo groups....... It will help you more

it all depends on the kind of site you have.A $500 budget for a big site is very less for advertising in adwords, However if it is just a one page site $500 could be enough to make the site profitable!

SEO and on and offline marketing are the best way's to promote your website. Go to forum and post about things that intrest you...

well...I am working in ad area for some quite time and I think that to have a future view of the business is very important . Hope you will convert your traffic