Promoting your news web site online requires more due diligence than promoting a business that sells a physical product. Like the name of your site, your domain name should be unique, recognizable and something that people can easily remember. After you set up the brand and generate content, the next step is to promote the news articles and make sure they get read. One way is to promote through social media.
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter offer opportunities for readers to directly connect with web content. Create accounts on the most popular social media platforms. To syndicate your news feed on those services, there are a few prerequisites. Make sure that your news site has an RSS/Atom feed. With the RSS/Atom feed handy, create an account using the service "TwitterFeed." Follow the instructions and link the RSS/Atom feed to your Facebook and Twitter. Every time you publish an article, it appears on Facebook and Twitter automatically.
When it's convenient, be sure to login to your accounts and interact with readers and potential readers.
On Facebook fan pages, there's limited personal interactivity between the page administrators and fans. Facebook appeals to more organic growth. You promote the articles on your site's fan page and wait for people to "like" you: that's not a formula for success. You can do more with a Facebook fan page -- a lot more.
