I thought maybe we can share some ideas on the different ways everyone promotes their site. I am sure everyone has some information that can help others out.
For the last few years I have been members of various message board communities. After I decided to start my own there were of course a few that came over with me but what really helped get members over to my site was my signature. I put my website and a brief description of it into it and posted like crazy in relevant forums/threads. I put a lot of work into finding different forums that related to guitars that I could target. It took a while but it eventually paid off and has proven to be successful for my site.
