I understand that with websites and blogs you may never stop promoting or maybe it can. I'd like to know for those that have the heavy traffic, where can you stop promoting your site/blog heavily and start reducing the amount of promoting that you do to the point here you just let the site/blog promote itself?
I hope this all make since.
Please reply as I'm looking forward to your answers.
Thanks,
Andy...
Depends on the genre, but "promoting" is a fairly broad word. Ads on different sites is promoting, social networking is promoting, Youtube videos is promoting etc., so you can never really end "promoting".
Usually, once you reach viral stage (about 500k posts which results in an established userbase), you should be having people willingly promote your site (a simple link) and have relatively good rankings.
You MUST continually promote if you want to become big. Promotiong doesn't mean you doing it...you can delegate promotion tasks to people but it must be continual.