I just started a site. How can I get it noticed?

Hi. I just made a blog about Windows 7 @ www.windows7center.com

How can I get some people coming to it and noticed?
I don't want to submit it to social news sites.
I've pinged pretty much every site possible.

Any other ideas?
Thanks.

 

press release

any reason why you don't want to submit to social news sites then?

 

my blog is about windows 7 news, and since it is new, most of the news are old, and I would be submitting duplicate information.

Does anyone know how to make sure everybody that goes to windows7center.com will be redirectd to www.windows7center.com ?

 

Those are the same site, so I'm guessing .htaccess redirection?

add this to the .htaccess file (or make a .htaccess file in the root folder)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

It really depends on what kind of traffic you are looking for. You may want to think about coming up with some unique content, then submitting to the various social media sites (facebook, digg, etc..)

 

start reading the archives on these forums like i am doing, lots of useful information.

 

Can be done in Wordpress, in the settings part I think.. Can't remember.

Here are some things you can do:

Submit to social bookmarking sites
Join Entrecard and MyBlogLog
Comment on related blogs
Submit to RSS Directories
Ping after each post (should be done automatically by WP)
Get some nice plugins to interlink posts and make site SEO friendly
Post regularly with unique content

Good luck!

 

Ideally, if you want to make this site anything more than regurgitated material, you need to get out there and try and get insider information and try to get it out socially before you competition.

I know it may be hard, but if you want to be a resource for people, you need to be one of the first to report on things.

 

forum backlinks...

 

that is true, but if I managed to get my hands on some juicy info "first", no one would know about it.

 

Submit articles to digg.com and visitors will be coming to you in a short times.

 

use a sig file ( forum marketing ) write as many articles as possible and if you have the funds ppc

 

social bookmarks are the best for your target audience.

but duplicate contents may not be good in the long run.. just my 2 cents

 

social bookmarks are good when you have a unique article, but news and a site like mine that often makes references to other sites, is not too good

 

If you'd like to get some traffic to your site take a look at "LinkReferral".. Just do a Google for that name.. It's free as well..

 

Press release
Viral marketing
Creating something of value that people will link to or pass on to their friends

 

Submit your link in related blogs or create a WP blog of your own. Inbound links are the key.

 

Reading this thread, is it no wonder so many have dead or slow sites.

 

What does that even mean?

 

That mean he ping search engines, blog directories etc manually or he order a "package" from blog network and ping them all too.