• Word of mouth. If the opportunity comes up in conversation, bring up the SoMD Pokémon TCG website.
  
• Are you a member of any forums? Add the URL to the site to your forum signature. Not only is it free, nearly effortless advertising, it has been shown that this can “trick” some search engines into ranking a site higher in search results.
  
• Contribute to the wiki .
  
• If you're on Facebook, join the SoMD Facebook group.
  
• Digg the website (register for a digg account- it's easy). The higher it gets ranked when you digg it, the more people will see the site. http://digg.com/nintendo/New_Website_for_Pokemon_TCG_in_the_Southern_Maryland_Area
• We also have a MySpace group: http://groups.myspace.com/somdp

• We may be looking for sponsors. If you have anything you wanna advertise on our site…
  

• Tell me how I can improve the site and report any broken links.

Things I will be working on:

• Business cards I can hand out to new players at league. Instead of telling them, “There’s this website called PokéGym (Pojo, PTCGPlayer, etc.) that can help you,” which they will most likely not visit, I can hand them a card with one URL on it (southernmarylandpokemon.com), accompanied by a pretty graphic.
  
• Forum? It may be helpful to have a SoMD Pokémon TCG forum. I will look into this.
  
• Card Scans. It would be nice to have card scans on the site, with the watermark of the site’s main sponsor, Aardvark Videos, Comics, and Games. Though not preferable, players will play with proxy cards. If they’re going to, they may as well be using ones watermarked with the name of a retail tournament venue.
  
• Thinking of other features I could put on the website.
  
• SoMD Pokémon TCG podcast. That’s right. I am considering trying out a podcast. What I would do, is, get a few interested people together on a Sunday at Aardvark Gym. We would sit down, and discuss relevant topics, along with the show prep that goes along with having a podcast. All of it would be recorded and saved in an MP3 file and posted on the website. Are there any interested people? And for those living in the last century, a podcast is a radio show done on the internet.