New website marketing strategy

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by webcosmo, Mar 1, 2008.

  1. #1
    If you never have had a website, and now you have started this very nice website; you need traffic. You probably was thinking in the world of www people will find your website in very short time. Guess what, you been dreaming. There are several billion websites already in the internet. And chances are very high the idea of your website or similar ones has been implemented by others. So why people would come to your site?

    Answer is you don't want people come to your website, you make them come to your website. You make them come to your website by your content, service, whatever it takes.

    Here are some small marketing tips for those folks just started a website:

    Content

    Improve the content of your site. As said content is always the king. Content is what will make a visitor come back to your site, establish a brand.

    Short Term Marketing
    If you happen to be getting very little traffic you should take strategy of introducing your site to as many people as possible. Why? Since very little people know about your site you have to take the opportunity of spreading the words pushing your site in front of them to take a look. So what are the short term marketing solution? There are many. To mention few classified advertising, submission to social networking sites, social bookmarking, forums signatures are some solutions.

    Long Term Marketing
    SEO is the most important marketing you could do for you site. Traffic from search engines could bring you hundreds even thousands of daily traffic. There are two main elements involved in getting search engine traffic. On-Page optimization which involves optimizing your pages for your desired keywords. And secondly link building. Lot of people do not realize how powerful link building could be. Build as many backlinks as you can. Never stop, its a continual process.

    Experiment and Learn

    If you asked somebody knowledgeable how to market your website, chances are very high that you will get a list of things to do. Now some of them applies to your website, some less useful (I am not saying not useful). Its you who have to find the marketing methods that works for your website and niche. Don't be afraid to experiment with different techniques; discard the ones not useful, keep the ones get you results.

    Hold your wallet
    Many new webmasters make this mistake. They thing spending some money will give them the initial boost and then their site will be well-known to all. Thats not the case. Keep your wallet in your pocket as much as possible. Try to do the methods that does not require money first. If it requires learning a new marketing thing which you don't have knowledge on, learn it. If you are rich with a fat wallet no worries.

    Don't be shy

    If you have questions about any marketing method, ASK. Its a three letter word which helps a lot. There are many forums including forums.webcosmo.com where you can ask your questions on marketing.
     
    webcosmo, Mar 1, 2008 IP
  2. factchecker

    factchecker Peon

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    Don't forget to watch your grammar. :)
     
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  3. webcosmo

    webcosmo Notable Member

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    I am foreigner, my grammar is always forgiven :)
     
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    weilies Peon

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    Hi, i am sure some of the potential online marketers are not English educated. What they share are their valued experience and tips

    P.S. I am a foreigner too :p
     
    weilies, Mar 3, 2008 IP
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    yummytork Well-Known Member

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    I would definitely use stumble upon, or digg, or reddit, or any number of social bookmarking and social networking sites for good amounts of traffic.
     
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    MTheory Active Member

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    I ain't forgivin' of bad grammer. LOL:)
     
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    enous Well-Known Member

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    good post..
     
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  8. webcosmo

    webcosmo Notable Member

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    Please forgive me my lord, I am innocent :)
     
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    mhaynes6 Peon

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    what does that mean?
     
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    increased online traffic Peon

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    Have a good imagination, It helps come up with creative marketing ideas.