Newbie Marketing Advice

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by andrew1810, Sep 23, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone,

    First post here (been loitering for a few weeks though)

    I've just finished building my latest site and could do with a bit of advice on marketing this site and 2 others I have.

    Any advice welcome, I'm a PHP/MySQL developer, so this side of things is a bit alien to me!

    Site details:

    1 - Classic games / apps download site, been going since about 1996 in one form or another. Google PR4 but very few hits at the moment:
    192 Visits
    452 Page Views in the last month
    Currently using adsense


    2 - Niche reviews website (hifi wireless music streamers)
    Google PR1
    658 Visits
    2,054 Page Views in the last month
    Alexa: 2,894,582
    Currently using adsense and affiliate schemes

    3 - Site for my open source web apps (CMS, CRM, Support system)
    Just gone live so no traffic etc. yet


    I'm not looking to make a fortune from the sites, but any increase on the $30 per year they are currently making would be good!

    I can send links if wanted, but didn't want to look like I'm spamming on my first post.


    Thanks

    Andrew
     
    andrew1810, Sep 23, 2007 IP
  2. stickycarrots

    stickycarrots Peon

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    what are your links
     
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    Hi, here are a few good ways to promote your website:

    1. Article Marketing - submit to EzineArticles if you only have time for 1
    2. Social Bookmarking - submit to Digg, StumbleUpon, etc
    3. Forum Posting - post at related forums
    4. Web 2.0 ie Blogging, Squidoo, Hubpages etc
    5. Directory Submission
    6. Google Adwords
    7. RSS Feed Submission
    8. Viral Ebook Marketing

    You can pick up some powerful and effective techiques to promote your website for growing traffic and sales from my free report.


     
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    FreeTraffic Active Member

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    In addition to this do

    9. social media markeing
    10. Get one way backlinks and while getting one way backlinks do off page SEO
     
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    tamaras Well-Known Member

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    Adwords is the fastest to get more traffic and backlink
     
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  6. andrew1810

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    Thanks for the tips everyone, I'll start looking into all of them

    Would it be worth concentrating more on one of the sites, or spread it out across all 3?

    The sites are
    http://www.downloadnet.co.uk
    http://www.audiofi.co.uk
    http://www.cruxsoftware.co.uk
     
    andrew1810, Sep 24, 2007 IP