Gaming Site marketing

I recently launched an amazing Xbox user support site called GetXbox.net. Other than posting the link on other forums, I'm not exactly how to get the site out there. It is very SEOed I believe, so I don't think I will have too much of a problem on search engines. But that will take a while. What are some options you have experimented with, or would suggest that I do?

Thanks for the help.

You could try telling your XBL friends about it.. :P

Considering the subject and content of your site, I think the majority of your traffic would come from search engines. Although you said the site has been heavily SEOed, you'll want to make sure you put a large amount of your effort in trying to gain good positions for the keywords in your articles.

You can also try marketing your forum before the main site itself. For example, you could try holding a large posting/referral contest on your forum and then advertising the contest on some large gaming forums (if you could offer a Xbox 360 as a prize, you'd get great results considerring the Xbox shortage ). As the new users visit your forum, they will gradually stumble upon the rest of your site.

As Animus said, you can also try gaining traffic by talking directly with your visitors. If someone on Xbox Live says "I can't figure out how to hook up [instert Xbox accessory here]. What should I do?", you could say "Check out GetXbox.net - they have an article just for that!".

This is quite simple. Just score a partnership with a big xbox company such as "teamxbox.com" and give them free things to review of your product.

Affiliate with related sites, tell your friends about -- ask them to tell their friends, so on.
It's basically simple to promote a gaming site, post on other gaming sites, where allowed, and ask them to link to your site in their signature - if that's allowed as well.

Also, you could even join gaming forums, to help promote the site -- gamers love gaming site, at least some of them do.

There is only so much you can do by posting on forums, linking and all this sort of word of mouth promotion I keep hearing about.

I'd probably get some advertisements in xbox magazines and popular gaming websites. Way too much time and effort targeting individual people. Your positions in search engines will pick up when your site gets more content and linked from.