How can I attract web traffic for my trading related website?

A friend and I have recently been working to create a website to help people discover online resources to help them learn to trade. Most of these resources are (paid) online courses - and the site acts sort of like a price comparison site for these courses by putting them all in one place. At present, the site is still in development but we hope to have it operational in the next month or two (if you go to www.tradeacademy.org you'll see a page informing you that the site is 'Coming soon'). In the future, we aim to expand it by adding discussion boards and technical advice pages.

Anyway, can anyone here think of any good ideas for how we can attract visitors to the site (with a very small budget - so we probably can't use paid online adverts)? Alternatively, if anyone here has a website or blog with high visitor numbers, PM me: perhaps we can come to a mutually beneficial arrangement if you're able to promote the site.

Regards.

I have a free private forum that I setup for fun which initially intended for casual trading privately among a small group, if you want to use it, feel free to PM me. But I have not invite anyone yet.

Thank you for the response, that sounds like it could be very helpful. We're currently hoping to launch the site at the beginning of October, so perhaps we could arrange something nearer that time?

Best regards

I don't mean to be rude, but 99 percent of the challenge in making this work is your ability to generate traffic. Forex traffic is also very valueable and as such its very difficult to get. In addition, if you do actually manage to get a decent amount of traffic, all you are essentially is a guy collecting affiliate profits. While affiliate profits can still be lucrative, you'd be missing out on a much much greater opportunity.

I'd say your best bet, unless you are a whiz at SEO, would be to build an actual academy yourself. Do a lot of research, and try to find really good people to provide content to your site and to do social media. If you guys can build something that provides actual value, and that people like, you can make a lot selling subs and you can also do all of the affiliate stuff on the side. I think this route has a lot more upside and a much higher probability of working out, but just IMO.

Sure. No worry. Just let me know in private if you need anything I can help. Sorry not going to post much here, as I don't want to be commercialize.

Hi,

I do have a blog... Please have a look to it (under my profile) and contact me there if you are interested.

Cheers