Please share some nice ideas on how to promote a new website. I own a immigration related website and right now got site indexed in yahoo, bing and google. Also submitted to couple of directories. Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Do you have a specific market that you need to point to, or are you just looking for general traffic? Whenever I have taken on a new marketing client, I have always sat down and asked a series of questions that helps me figure what they are looking for in terms of traffic. Everybody wants their website to be the next big thing, but having a true understanding of who you want to visit and how you want them to get there will help you keep your goals in the realistic realm. If you want, here is a list of generic questions I ask, and if you answer them, I can probably better help you. What is the main purpose of your website? What utility does your website provide to a visiting individual? What are the demographics of your average clientele (age/race/geological location)? How often do you update your website? What social media avenues have you already established? What are you competitors doing that you like? What are you competitors doing that you don't like?
Check these short articles, maybe these ideas will be helpful in giving you some ideas of your own to promote your new site: Seven Ways To Promote Your New Website by Fei Lim Once you have built your new website, you don't have time to sit back and admire your creation, the work is just beginning. Thousands of web pages are being added to the Internet every day and if you want your page to be visited, then you have to make special efforts to promote your site. No two sites are equal and there may be a particular promotion method that works best for you, however, here are seven methods that you can consider before launching your promotion campaign: 1. Get your site listed in the major search engines. At the present time most Internet traffic is delivered by three search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN. If you want "free" traffic, then your site must be listed in these search engines and it must appear prominently when someone makes a query using a keyword or phrase that is related to your business or your activity. Getting listed is not a big problem as the three major search engines use "spiders"(robotic programs) that scour the Internet constantly looking for new sites. The best way to be found by the spiders is to get a link to your site from a website that is already listed in the search engines. Ask your web designer, your hosting firm, your friends or business associates to link to your new site. 2. Distribute an Online Press Release. In the offline world of business, whenever your company does something new you should let the media know about it by issuing a press release. The same goes for the Internet. Write a one page press release, around 400 words, letting the world know about your new website. Put emphasis on the aspect of your business or website that you think is newsworthy. The press release can be distributed through online services. If you write a good release it will picked up by journalists, by blog publishers and webmasters looking for news. 3. Participate in Forums and Blogs Related to Your Industry The Internet is becoming more interactive with each passing day. If you want to get known then you have to take part in this interactivity. Visit blogs and forums that are of interest to you. Learn something from them, and from time to time leave a comment. Don't try to push your website or business, but add something useful to the conversation, and of course put your website's address in your signature. 4. Write and distribute articles about your area of expertise Webmasters and newsletter publishers are hungry for good content. If you write a 500-800 word article about a topic that is related to your business, then you can easily get it published on hundreds of websites around the net. As with your forum participation, you should not try to directly sell your business or products. Rather, if you offer good information people will begin to respect you as an expert in your field and will click on the link to your site which is usually provided in the author-information at the end of your article. 5. Submit your site to directories related to your website's theme In addition to the major search engines, you should look around and find directories that list sites in your field of activity. For example if you are a web designer, then you would want your site listed in directories of webmaster resources. To find these directories make a search online for something like this: "pet supplies directory", "pet suppliers directory" and you will find strategic places where you can add your link. Just substitute your field for the term "pet supplies." 6. Exchange links with complementary websites One of the oldest forms of promotion on the Internet is the trading of links between two websites. Make a search for websites that are related to yours and propose an exchange of links with each of these sites. The process works faster and more efficiently if you place a link for the other site before requesting a link to your site. 7. Use paid advertisements It takes time for some of the promotion methods to pay off. If you want to start doing business immediately, then you will have to pay for online advertising. The most effective way to do this is to participate in Google's Adwords program. The small advertisements that you see in the right hand column of the Google search results pages, and the advertisements that appear on many websites are placed by advertisers who pay each time someone clicks on the link.
Great one rmelick and djpoint. + rep i do have some reservations: (i) i never submit to search engines. the only ones i go for is google, yahoo, and bing. i really think submitting to other search engines is waste of time! (ii) i dont believe in link exchange, seriously it reminds me of link forms. i dont dont believe it does help in site ranking. (iii) i dont want to use facebook because i use facebook only to connect with personal friends and i dont want them to know about my business activities, which is why i dont use social promotions. i have written couple of articles with a press release and nothing more. still yet to participate in forums. i am sorry but its the way i think and i apologize if my above comments are bit harsh!
Link exchanges as part of an overall link building campaign can be ok, but you don't want to do just link exchanges.
No need to apologize about being harsh. This is your company and your brand, and we are all just advisers. - Depending on the software you are using to run your website, we could potentially set up an automatic submission service within some SEO parameters. PM me if you want to talk about that in private. - Link exchange is one of the best ways to grow your rankings in Google. The more times your link appears on other sites, the more times it will be looked at by Google/Bing/Yahoo. Development of a brand and website traffic is quite a bit of work, but with the right direction, it can be an effective tool in order to open up your business to new clients. If you want to expand your business, you honestly need to expect to put some good time into promoting it through the proper channels. If you go ahead an answer those questions I posted above, I can point you in the right direction.
Well if you dont wanna do anything on Facebook, then try out submitting your sites in the networking sites which are in the addthis.com widget list. Some of them like Hacker News and other new upcoming sites do get good amount of traffic and backlinks. You can also post some google alerts with your main keywords so whenever there is a new article about anything in your niche, you can submit some valuable blog comments. Those comments will get you indexed quickly too as some articles might be from authority sites
Have you tried using social networks such as twitter and facebook? or even forum posting with signatures.
It depends on what kind of site we're talking about. If it is a small one, then Social bookmarking and forum profiles will work fine. If you are building a business, you will need a lot of backlinks + unique and awesome content.
no. dedicated ip's have nothing to do with ranking what-so-ever. If they did, then every single person on the net would have one today, then we would be right back where we started to begin with....
Keep posting great unique content and continue building links with a natural velocity and you'll see the visitors coming from those things called search engines
Don't forget the power of "word of mouth" find ways to tap into this resource and you will better understand how to think "viral"
Always make backlinks. I can help you make backlinks for cheap if you want. Just PM me. Also forum/blog signatures help too.