New Site, don't know what to do

Hi,

I have just purchased a new domain name with intentions to develop it. Although I do not want to reveal the domain

Anyway, I have launched sites before without knowing what to do with them first off and have learnt some things but haven't really implemented them through lack of knowing how.

So I would like to do this right this time around, can you please post a list of what I should do when I am promoting to help my site out.

I am going to try to get on the front page for a few keywords, but don't know how to.

NOTE: I don't want to reveal the site's nature or anything about it, so don't ask

 

Well you have asked a very general question. Website promotion is a HUGE topic. Try narrowing down certain problems/questions you have, and you'll have more chance of getting better responses.

To start things off, make sure to do proper keyword research. Identify about 2 or 3 primary keywords which you would want to target for your homepage, then start optimising for those terms.

 

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Alright, that. Keyword Optimizing, does that mean I have to use more of those two to three keywords?

 

If I understand you correctly, optimising for 2 to 3 word phrases would be ideal.

 

I seemed to of come across wrong. I meant, I have my 2 - 3 words now what do I do with them. Do I increase the amount of usage of those 2 - 3 words on each page?

 

Keyword density is one factor. More importantly is getting links to your site containing the targetted keywords your optimising for.

 

Alright another question. With the code, does it need to be valid and only using DIV's or can I just use tables and hefty code, will that have any effect?

 

Try and clean up your code, but it shouldn't have too much of an effect on rankings.

 

I think I should be pretty fine about now. Just one more questions, are forums different to websites? Because my forum is not even indexed by google at all, even though I have spend countless hours submiting to directories and asking for link exchanges.

Will a website be any different due to static content?

 

As dcristo said getting links from good PR websites with cleverly choosen anchor text is the key.

You could also choose to implement coop or LV on your website, it would get you many natural looking backlinks for no cost at all. And the coop wieght or Vaultage generated always adds up to the value of website.

 

Static websites are generally indexed deeper as they tend to have a better internal linking structure. Google at the moment is finding it very hard to index forums (for me anyway using phpbb)

 

Users are the key to a gettign forums popular, i have tried getting 2-3 forums popular but i've failed.

You can initially use some forum populating website to get things rolling and then users would visit your forum regularly. Although i have not tried this personally so i cannot recommend it to you.

 

Well call me dumb, but could you explain coop and LV to me

 

You can do mod_rewrite on phpBB forums and on vBulletin as well. That would surely help you gettign your forum indexed better in SEs.

 

Well, the forum you are working on right now is the main source of coop advertising, this forum was initially started to support DPs tools and one of them is COOP weight.

"The ad network is a network of site owners that offer ad space to the network. In return, the ads they define are displayed across the entire network."

Benefits of this program? "Because there is a ton of unused advertising space out there on the Internet, and I have not seen anyone else doing anything like this. It's easy to put 50,000 of your own ads on your own site, but there is much more value if you put your ad 50 times on 1,000 sites."
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Link Vault is made up of a large group of quality websites. Each new member must bring to the network at least one high quality website and make available a few links slots for existing members. In return you receive 'Vaultage' which you use to receive links from the other members websites which is in effect a link exchange.

Each website added to the network will be vetted by a person before any links are placed to ensure it meets our strict quality guidelines. Should you wish to use your Vaultage quota to provide text link adverts to a website not in the system, then this website will also need to pass the vetting.

Link Vault is completely free and the set up is straightforward, flexible and easily customized. All the links are static, unless you delete them or the site is removed. You also have full control over the number of text links you receive.
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Both are similar concepts, while LV is based more on the PR of homepage and coop is based on number of pages your website has.

 

But wouldn't that mean that a lot of low end websites would join LV just to get traffic, meaning that you will only recieve crappy traffic. Wouldn't it be better to find link partners on my own accord?

 

Hi illusion,

dcristo is right - off-page factors carry considerably more weight than on-page in regard to ranking in the SEs. For on-page, it's also important where your keywords appear. Ideally, you want to have your "base" (or main) keyword appear once as close to the beginning (upper left) of your page as possible, at least once in your main content, and once as close to the end (lower right) of your page as possible.

HTH,
Sam

 

Well, that is a flip side, what are you targetting right now?

What is your revenue model? Is it based on adsense or are you selling any products or services?

These advertising networks get you links on website that are related to your category. So your link is on related websites only. That is also one plus point.