What do you actually do to market and promote your sites and how long do you spend on each method? For example do you split your time between directory submissions, forum posts, article marketing, blog commenting etc or do you spend more time on one method. What marketing do you outsource, if any?
I spend most of my time on finding the target audience I am after. After that social networking and content creation is organized on a 50/50 basis I could say. However, this is what I find to be good for me, I mean, I do it this way just not to get bored with the things I'm doing. Another thing to take into account is the niche you're into, according to the niche you'll have to implement your marketing plan after a carefully conducted research. Then you will know for sure what sort of tactics methods and techniques you're required to do. Knowing that, you'll be able to identify what's the most important of all and categorize these methods and spend the appropriate and needed time doing each one of them. well, that's me...hope this was of help!
My primary promotion and marketing techniques are videos and article writing. I only write for myself and I never submit to article sites. I also film all of my own videos and take all of my own pictures. When making a video, it might take anywhere from 3 - 72 hours. That includes drive time, filming, editing, uploading,,,,,. When I write an article, it might take 2 or 3 days - that is spending a coupel of hours per day. Some articles are short and only take a few minutes. Because of the nature of my work, it would be difficult to outsource. Some of my videos are instructional hiking, camping, wilderness survival, navigation with a GPS, compass and TOPO maps, firearms, gardening,,,,,. I have thought about outsourcing some of my video production or article writing, but have not found what I needed. Most of my articles have three layers - text, images and at least 1 video. I would need an article writer that could do all of that and on the topics that I need.
Well I spend about three weeks 12-18 hours daily submitting to directories 4 or 5k worth. Then wrote a hundred or so articles and now adays I will submit one of my articles to a article directory daily. Write a press release or submit to social bookmarking. Mainly I spend my time blogging, exchanging links, blog commenting, article commenting, and forum posting of course leaving my link everywhere I go
I just learning how to promote EN site, so any information is welcome. For my sites on my language I was doing promotion via directories, and classic link exchange, after some time if you have good site visitors create backlinks for you.
i don't actually plan it. i create blog entry while posting in forums reply some when i see interesting topics and wait for the right questions in yahoo answers.
I do no marketing at all, all i do is on page optimization , then outsource to the phillipenes and get others to do SEO which would cost me in the uk and usa around $1000 from which i only pay $100, Outsource is the best route!
I spend almost 80% of my time in marketing. This is because i'm also a freelancer provide those service. Therefore, i do it all together myself
I spend one day a week writing and posting articles ... and one hour a day blog posting. The rest of my work week is spent researching markets and products.
Market research, Forum posting, Blog, Article.. these are all off page SEO efforts.. if you really want you website in search engine you need some On page SEO efforts with white hat SEO techniques...
hi i have just put my site up and waiting for clickbank approval and waiting what would be my first thing to do to market my site i am only very new .. bret
I spend most of my time posting in blogs and forums. The rest of my time is spent on article marketing. I try to take each article and re-purpose it somehow to get the most use out of it. For example: break the article down and use bits for blogs or forums posts. Take a collection of articles and make an e-book. You get the idea. I also dabble in PPC, but I have not been wildly successful at it. I get better results with the other methods.
Five articles a day posted on ezine. I get huge traffic from there and I can write five articles inside of two hours.
@Jax how do you find that your older articles perform? I am trying to get into my article routine and I have 11 published so far but they did not do too hot over the weekend. They were up for like 2 days before that. I am just waiting for more submissions and stockpiling my writings right now.
Mike - the older ones are the ones that the search engines find and send me viewers. Those articles are on the first page of google in many cases and I find that my articles do real well over the weekend... my stuff is mainly business related. I try and get my articles posted as late on Friday afternoon as possible so they are on the main page over the weekend and get views. Also, I submit my articles to reddit and digg in order to get a little more exposure.
I find it interesting that most people seem to do most of the promotion themselves. I guess it is difficult to trust to an outsourcer and I guess many of you want to do the best job. Some of you seem to work ridiculously hard. At one point I tried to write and submit an article a day but soon got fed up with it. Traffic is continually circulating on the internet and you have to have as many fishing lines in the water as possible to get a bite. The biggest pond being Google. There's no point fishing in an empty pond.
I outsource link building and things along those lines and there are trustworthy folks out there that do good work for fair pay but it's rare to get an article writer that writes an article that I find works. For me writing an article is a piece of cake so what is hard to you is easy to me. I'm sure there are things that you find very easy that would be very hard for me... that's the way God has made us. This is my full time occupation so I look at it and treat it as a business. I have charts and records of daily work, daily responses and daily revenue so I know what works for me.