How should I market my new site?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by taylorwilsdon, Feb 10, 2008.

  1. #1
    I've come by some pretty good methods for my existing sites, but I'm trying something totally new because I picked up a (in my opinion) good domain for it.

    My website is The Forecast and I'm putting together a weather site.

    My question is, how should I market it? PPC seems way too expensive, any suggestions would be appreciated.
     
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  2. skelator

    skelator Banned

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    #2
    Try Youtube.
     
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  3. Apple888

    Apple888 Member

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    Try craigslist also this get put into search engines quickly. If you title the ad with your website URL you will get better results.

    Good Luck!
     
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  4. taylorwilsdon

    taylorwilsdon Peon

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    #4
    Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm not sure I understand. How would I advertise a weather site on... craigslist?

    Also, to the youtube guy - keep the ads out of the thread, okay?
     
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    skelator Banned

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    sorry i was just suggesting a way to get traffic to your site.
     
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  6. taylorwilsdon

    taylorwilsdon Peon

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    No worries. Again, I'm not sure how Youtube would be relevant at all to a weather site, but if you think it is then I guess I'm open to trying.
     
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    Apple I'm still interested in your suggestion. How would I market this on CL?
     
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    pipes Prominent Member

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    I was going to say submit to directories, but the site looks short on content, some would be fussy about accepting it.
     
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    jred2002 Well-Known Member

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    Just as a heads up - if you're targeting the US, they use Fahrenheit, not Celsius

    Your site only brought back Celsius results

    If you meant to have it that way - then never mind
     
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    advertise on every site u can fink of or pay it to be advertised
     
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    ianternet Well-Known Member

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    if it is new dont use ppc - ppc is good if you are going to make money back or if you have a shitload of money and you do not care how much your spending for traffic
     
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    Great catch. Fixed :)
     
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    Save your money... You can get great results for free (other than time) using article marketing. Checkout http://www.thekaizenbusiness.com/?p=174 for a bit of a case study on how a brand new site was promoted using articles.
     
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    I wouldn't spend much on advertising this site. Rather build a tool so other websites could show weather on their site. That way you get marketing as well as backlinks.
     
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    I would definitely build a tool to allow other people to show the weather on their site. I would also incorporate my adsense code into the tool, so that your adsense is on their pages if they have the tool.
     
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    Well, but I'm using a feed from weather.com, so its just one after another... why wouldn't they just go to the source?
     
    taylorwilsdon, Feb 16, 2008 IP