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date: 2010-08-23 07:49:00+00:00
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title: A Recipe to Promote your Site
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- company
- promotion
- reference
- stackexchange
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In [The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta](../2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/) we covered what we believe to be the crucial steps in forming a viable [Stack Exchange](http://stackexchange.com) Q&A community. Today we're going to offer some aggregated advice, both from us and our existing meta communities, on step 7 -- **How do we promote our site?**
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author: rcartaino
comments: true
date: 2010-08-23 07:49:00+00:00
layout: post
redirect_from: /2010/08/a-recipe-to-promote-your-site
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slug: a-recipe-to-promote-your-site
title: A Recipe to Promote your Site
wordpress_id: 4771
tags:
- company
- promotion
- reference
- community
- stackexchange
---

In [The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta](../2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/) we covered what we believe to be the crucial steps in forming a viable [Stack Exchange](http://stackexchange.com) Q&A community. Today we're going to offer some aggregated advice, both from us and our existing meta communities, on step 7 -- **How do we promote our site?**

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