How do I promote my photography web site?

First a note, your wording is incorrect, "least cost effective" means the most inefficient, the proper wording is most cost effective.

Photography web sites are a hard thing to promote. The first step is to ensure that your website has data built into it so if people search for terms related to you (for example if you are in chicago and people searched for "photography chicago" your site would come up). A site that is well built will have this in place.

A great free way to promote your photography web site is by using social networking, ie. facebook, twitter or a blog that you can directly engage people with. People will be able to see you work as it occurs and therefore they have current and interesting information to look at. You can do reviews of others' work, or post interesting links or talk about your creative process. Basically post anything that will be interesting to read for people who are not photographers.

A paid service that a friend I knew had great success with was wedj.com . It is for event planning but you can put your business on there and anyone who searches for a photographer will find you in your respective area.

Lastly, TALK ABOUT IT! Post links to your page, have conversations with people when you're out getting groceries or at your other job or wherever you are. Being a photographer is really hard work and you never have an off day. You should always be shooting, you should always be meeting and talking to new people that will in turn be possible clients.

enjoy!

happy shooting

"least cost effective"???

Prime time ad on tv

Full size ads in national daily papers

They would both cost you an absolute fortune. The roi would (probably) not be worth it.

If you mean MOST cost effective then that depends entirely on what you are actually trying to promote.

Obviously anything which does not cost much and gets your site name "out there".

Could be as little as having a logo on the side of your car/van to ensuring that you have as many links on other sites as possible.

Join some popular photography forums and start commenting on stuff and post it under your comments.

Put massive watermarks and submit them to the local newspaper's community photos section.

omg i do no longer know your answer yet i presumed it stated PORNOgraphy until eventually now each and every thing. lmao. theory i might share. :/ i'll email my pal whos an IT guy in a min and come again with you however.

Join http://www.redbubble.com/ which is totally free.

Add a link to your website from your Profile Page, and with every pic you upload also.

I know a few artists who post their work here:

http://www.deviantart.com/#

You could also build a totally free website here:

http://www.wix.com/

So load up your artwork totally free. Good luck, have fun and stay safe.