Not promoting your site?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by olddocks, Aug 21, 2007.

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    Anybody here who doesnt promote your sites at all, yet make good money.

    what you think about this? Does this hurt the full potential of a site.
     
    olddocks, Aug 21, 2007 IP
  2. KC TAN

    KC TAN Well-Known Member

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    Is SEO counted as a promotion strategy for you?
     
    KC TAN, Aug 21, 2007 IP
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    The promotion is very important for new website.
     
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  4. olddocks

    olddocks Notable Member

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    i do SEO myself. :) :)
     
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    aletheides Banned

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    #5
    If you don´t promote your site you will be standing still...
     
    aletheides, Aug 21, 2007 IP
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    SEO is very important. You get 33% of your traffic from Search Engines.
     
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    If you don't promote nobody will ever visit your site. How can you make money without visitors?
     
    tennisplayer89, Aug 21, 2007 IP
  8. aletheides

    aletheides Banned

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    More than that!
     
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    Not promoting a site would effect the sites full potential, of course.
     
    Gatorade, Aug 21, 2007 IP
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    I don't think money can be made without promoting your website. Even if you pretended to have lots of visitors and sold a link spot on your new site, you have just gone and promoted it to that person that would have bought the link sale.

    So no promotion = no money.

    Even if you purchase domains and sell them cheaper, you are still promoting the domain by trying to sell it dearer.
     
    john269, Aug 21, 2007 IP
  11. live-cms_com

    live-cms_com Notable Member

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    The figure varies a huge amount depending on how well you market and how well you SEO your websites...

    One of my websites gets 80% traffic from search engines while another gets 10%.
     
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    live-cms_com Notable Member

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    If you develop an awesome website and do some pro SEO there's not much need for promotion, people will spread the word (the people who arrive from search engines).
     
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  13. contactusa

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    I doubt you can popularize and make money from your site without promoting it. There are so many new sites and without promotion you are just one of the many.

    Your name will be remembered after being seen a few times, well hopefully more than just a few. Once a prospect gets to know your site and then sees you're serious about your business, he/she will feel more comfortable by doing business with you.

    Promotion is KEY!
     
    contactusa, Aug 21, 2007 IP
  14. olddocks

    olddocks Notable Member

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    SE are of course one part. But remember, social networking sites like Digg, Stumble can send you huge traffic, if people like your site. :):)
     
    olddocks, Aug 22, 2007 IP
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    I think if you don't promote your website, you don't have visitors and no visitors no sells
     
    jcalberto, Aug 22, 2007 IP
  16. olddocks

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    If site is really good, wont it promote itself? I am assuming that SE and SNS bring natural traffic.
     
    olddocks, Aug 22, 2007 IP
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    I don't think so. Even if it is good. How will people find out about it? Just because you'll be listed on Page 200 in SE results?
     
    contactusa, Aug 22, 2007 IP
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    If your site is very good you only need to do a little promoting. If the site is crap you'll need to do a tonne of promoting.
     
    live-cms_com, Aug 22, 2007 IP
  19. contactusa

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    Little promoting is fine. Will "little" income also be fine? Good and Best will not always sell if people do not know about it.

    We all buy a lot of garbage, just because it is bombarded into our sychic by Marketers, TV, News and so on. There might be better products and services, but if we do not know where they are, we will never buy them.

    If Coke and McDonald's (by the way, I never drink this s..t or eat the other garbage anyway) were not advertised (read: promoted), would they be so popular? Why would you want to swollow 10 spoons of sugar anyway?

    People do, not because there is a "little" promotion going on.
     
    contactusa, Aug 22, 2007 IP
  20. kingjacob

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    I made a proxy unfliter.us and didnt put any links to it, to see how fast it would grow, it didnt grow, but after submitting it to be crawled by google it skyrocketed so you can get a way without heavily promoting your site but why would you want to limit yourself like that.
     
    kingjacob, Aug 22, 2007 IP