This is an article I found: It is pretty useful check it out! Great for newcomers What is this site providing to me? How is this site making money and will people help the cause? Would new people to the site come? Would people tel there friends about this site? Would people make this site a "favourite"? Is this site a copy of something that is already done many times over? After asking all these questions, you can get a better understanding of how a website will preform. Then once you get the general layout of the site then you can begin designing the website. Most people tend to use dreamweaver to design a website, but there are several other programsthat can be used. The program generaly guides yowu through all the steps to setup the website, and everything you need to get going. If you have questions there is plenty of help to get you through everything. Just google search it and you are sure to find what you are looking for. Once your site is complete, which could take several days to complete, then you are ready to find a host and post the site on the internet. Finding a host is relatively easy, and it is very easy to get everything esetup for your website. Then once your site is online ad everything is ready to go, then we get to the hard part. Marketing your Website There are tons of ways that you can market a website, and it is difficult to list them all, but I am just going to focus on the programs that will be most effective to bring you hhigh traffic at a low cost. This is exactly what you should be looking for. Should I submit my pages to search engines? NO! do not submit any pages to search engines for the following reasons: A) search engine traffic is few and far between, and the odds that you will get a good rank are low. You willbe way way back in the results anyway, so now point spending time with search engines. B) Your pages will be indexed by search engines anyway within a week or so. What to do? This is a list of several of the more profitable ways to generate traffic: If you have some spar cash buying links is an excellent source of traffic. The best way to buy links is through any of the several thousand sites that are selling links, you could even possibly buy links from major advertising sites as Yahoo and Google, but I find that these methods are very costly with low results. I have several better ways that can give you more traffic. Forget CPC, better is permanent links, or semi-permanent links. What are these types of Links? These type of links will hold your page for many months generating traffic over the long term instead of short term results. Why are these better than short term CPC links? These are much better because they are usually much cheaper, plus you benefit from the increase of traffic over the years. Break down: I am curently offering on one of my sites the following: You can purchase a 10 year text link, valued at $5000 for 10 years. The cost per day is $1.37. The Link is very exclusive since there are only 20 links available for purchase. Let's say you purchased one link and the site starts with 100 uniques, and 400 pageviews of your websie per day. The website increases it's traffic roughly 100%/month decreasing by 5%/month(this is just a guesstimate from the websites I have had in the past) So you would receive results similar to this (with a 1% click rate, very low): Month 1 /6000uniques/ 24,000 pageviews / 240 Clicks / Cost Per Click $0.125 Month 2 /12000uniques/ 48,000 pageviews / 480 Clicks / Cost per Click $0.0675 Year 1 /50000uniques/ 200,000 pageviews / 2000 clicks / Cost per Click $0.015 As you can see the cost drops substantially, and continues to drop. This also helps to increase your page rank as the main site that is linking to you increases in page rank. It is a great strategy to get your page started and to maintain great click ads over the years. We currently have these available at http://site.www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=116006&did_splash=1 And, expect to see more ads as we continue to grow we will add more and more of these types of opportunities. Theother more cost effective ways of promotion include: Posting links to your website on open forums Exchanging Links with other websites Promoting your site via mass email. These and many things will be looked at through future arcticles. http://www.thebilliondollarbet.com/help.html
That article is pretty poorly written in a grammatical sense, and entirely flawed in other ways. Just one example: Search engine traffic is NOT few and far between. I've worked for 3 major content networks (still work for 2), and every one of them gets the majority of traffic from search engines. That traffic is why they're able to monetize the sites in the first place. The same is true for a lot of smaller sites. No, your site isn't guaranteed to be indexed anyway within a week or so if you don't submit it. Heck, I've had it take longer than that when I DID submit it. And the odds that you'll rank well are only low if you don't put work into SEO and building good content. I'm not even going to bother going into the other problems here. Whoever wrote this doesn't know much about marketing at all. Talk to an actual professional if you have questions. I'm sure there are plenty of them here, including myself, who would be very happy to give you accurate information and suggestions for marketing your sites. This is honestly one of the worst marketing articles I've ever seen, and I really hate saying anything mean. At the same time though, I'd rather people not listen to incorrect information and think they're learning something. If you have marketing questions, ask them here in DP, or search the threads. There's a wealth of valuable information available and educated and experienced people willing to help you. Jenn
I Don't mean to be rude, But do your really feel that it is fair to refer to that as an article? If you found it on the web then I suggest you sent this advice on to the author: 1) Write another draft, don't distribute a rough outline. 2) If this is anything other than a rough outline Please do not write any further articles to clutter up the internet If you are the author then I add one additional item 3) When posting articles to forums, websites, etc. please ensure that they are not crap and that they may infact cover the topic that they are said to represent. Thanks
It's very badly written, but that post appears to be more to do with spam (why post the URL of the article site?) than to actually help anyone on the forum.