Hi all, I recently put together a site designed to help people choose an MP3 player. It was done to satisfy my own interests, and now it's mostly done I'm wondering if I should bother trying to promote it and make a little money with it. I'm worried that I might fail at the first step and not be able to get it into many directories. Does anyone have a feeling for how I might go? Should I bother marketing this site at all? Thanks, I look forward to hearing what you think. http://www.guidetomp3players.com
Should I bother marketing my site? one should be... To fetch up better results try to go for PPC along with seo.
You should consider marketing your site. Why? Because it would generate you extra traffic, extra income and would give you a good foothold in the market Why dont you start with a blog?
Seems like a relatively unique idea. You should keep adding interesting content and see what happens.
For page rank purposes or traffic? Thanks for the advice so far guys. I'm almost ready to invest some money I think, as a little experiment if nothing else.
Both. Initially it's about getting rank (and a small amount of traffic from the links), but the increased rank will bring increased traffic
To be honest with you should look at this as a side project and not get to vested in it. I am have to be honest with you unless you are in it for the long haul i.e you plan on keeping that site till 2010 dont expect to make big dollars organically i.e search engine traffic. You can buy your traffic but what is your monetary model once you have eyes and will it be greater than what you are spending. Unless you can fine tune you niche real well, you will be fighting an uphill battle in Search engines. General info blogs on mp3 hardware are a dime a dozen. You will be up against sites like engadget, gizmodo, and akihibara news just to name a few. I dont know your full plan you may have industry contacts and evolve your site into something different. If I were to take a stab at it and mp3 player guide was going to be one of the keyword word phrases you were optimizing for currently their are 59,700,000 results for that phrase in google. here is the page for the top result http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7964_7-5134106-1.html it has a pr 0f 6 cnet.com the site has pr of 8. So if you going bear down for the long haul something that might look good for the SE is you extend your domain name registration beyond 2007 to show you will be around. Just my 2 cents.
The only person to know this answer is yourself. If you would really like some money from your site then yes you should market it, but if you are not worried then don't bother. It is up to you. At the end of the day, you will be the one that makes this site a success.
why not, mate? you built a site and you wanna hide it from others? well, you should consider put more time to advertise it coz you have already put some effort into it. it doesn't matter if you failed, you will get the good experience.
everyone fails on their first try....everything is a stepping stone for you..you learn by mistakes..whatever you feel you need to do..just do it. stop wondering and you will get a reward for your hard work.
Well that's part of the probelm: my first site had over 100,000 real hits in it's first week .This is actually my second site. As a test I invested in alfredo's directory submission service, mainly to experiment with how that affected my sites search engine ranking (currently page 13 of google). I appreciate the input and advice though, so thanks to everyone that has responded.
I would disagree on the words you used. Not everyone fails on their first attempt. Yes they get things wrong all the time as I got so much wrong, but I didn't fail on my first site. My first site is infact my main site and most visited site. You only fail at something if you give up. I definately didn't fail, but did get alot wrong. If I didn't get all the stuff wrong that I have done or done things differently then I would have done what I have done know about 2 years ago. I wish I new back then what I know now.
Wow, 100,000 real hits in its first week? Were you buying links on high traffic sites? Or it was purely search engine traffic?