Few ways to promote your website

Few ways to promote your website

Hello everyone,
I'm listing some good techniques which are quite effective in marketing your website. Feel free to add your own.

1. Post newsgroups
2. Press releases
3. Email to VIPs
4. Article submission
5. Reciprocal Links
6. Forum Posting

7. Directory submission
8. Tell everyone with whom you communicate
9. Post ads to free advertising website
10. Blogging
11. Social Bookmarking/networking sites, such as StumbleUpon, Digg, etc
12. Paid advertising
13. Contests, giveaways
14.traffic exchange/link exchange .etc