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Hi! Welcome to Scratch. I've check out your project - for a first project, it's really really good!

There are a lot of ways to advertise your projects, you just have to be creative. Here are some of the common ways of advertising your projects:

Advertise in Show and Tell. You can create a topic in the Show and Tell section of the forum about your project, and people will check it out. This can attract a lot of views once your name becomes more well known. Be sure to include a link to the project in the post!

Put a clickable image in your signature. Once you have 10 comments, 3 projects, and have been active for a month, you become a Scratcher. Besides being able to edit/delete posts, this allows you to have a signature. In your signature, you can put anything you like (a link, picture, text, a clickable image, etc.), and this is displayed at the end of every post you've made. If you post a lot, this will be very effective, as people tend to click on good-looking signatures.

Comment. This works for all the projects you have. Comment on people's projects. Some strategies to advertising your projects state that you should not try to advertise your own projects, but look through all the advertisements, and comment on others' projects; they and their viewers might click on your name and view your projects. This works especially well in conjunction with the other strategies, as people will click on your name if they've heard of you before.

People will advertise for you. Making your projects as attractive as possible (nice animations, cool icon, awesome graphics) and advertising using the strategies I've mentioned above will boost your views. People love to tell others they know about the "next big project" they've found, and then they'll check out the project, and tell their friends, and it goes on.

Advertise in others' projects...? You can do this, but you have to be careful about how you go about it. Famous Scratchers like Wes64 often give out space in their project noted for advertising. You can post a link in the comments asking to be advertised (but make sure this isn't all you comment!), and you'll probably be put in. As the people view the project, they'll click some of the ads. Some projects (large games, Scratch tv channels) give out space for advertising within the actual project. Although rare, this can really help your projects get noticed.

Off-site advertising. People often create websites for their Scratch projects and put links to them in the Things I'm Making and Creating forum. In these websites, they have (some) information about themselves, their projects, and, of course, links to them. the people in the Things I'm Making and Creating forum often have the most friends, and will tell the most other people about your project, but they're unlikely to discover your project otherwise.

Reviews. Getting your project reviewed in a review topic in the Show and Tell thread can boost your project's popularity if it gets a good score. People sometimes check these topics for high-rated projects to look at, because the reviewers are often people who've made really good projects. Post your project in one of these!

Well, that's basically it, but there's virtually infinite ways to advertise, as Scratchers' projects (in the true sense of the word) often create another advertising medium, and thus, more places to advertise. 

I found this pretty helpful as well since I am still on my first scratch project!

Reference your game/projects in the forums. If someone asked how to do something with their project, you could say "*blah blah blah* For example in my game, (insert link here) you can see that it is similar *blah blah blah*"

Might be kind of a stretch, but hey, it still works to some extent.