www.myspace.com/gigsinyourarea
just any ideas/advice please. Ideally to advertise and promote my site once it is up.Help advice for marketing/advertising my website?
PPC (Pay Per Click): This can be costly if you are not experienced, but it will guarantee visitors to your site. You will set a maximum amount that you are willing to spend per search term on Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc. In this method you spend per click to your website.
Navigation: Make your navigation search engine friendly. Some webmasters use frames, but frames can cause serious problems with search engines. Even if search engines can find your content pages, they could be missing the key navigation to help visitors get to the rest of your site.
Site Map: This is a must have for any website that wants to be indexed by the search engines. It allows the ';bot'; a map to finding information on your site. You can submit your site map to Google which may increase your chances of being indexed.
Promote Your Local Business on the Internet: These days many people search for local businesses on the Internet. To make sure they find you include on every page of your website the street address, zip code, and phone number.
Begin a Blog: Begin a blog on your website about your industry, be sure to host it on you domain. If you offer excellent updated content and regular industry comment, people are likely to link to it.
Your URL: Put your url (website name) on everything that you have. Include it on stationary, bags, business cards, receipts, anything your business sends out. Your www.yourbusinessnamehere.com should be treated as an additional location.
Promote Your Site in Online Forums and Blogs: The Internet offers thousands of very targeted forums and blogs. Use these groups to learn more about your field and promote your business while doing so.
E-mail: Create a signature on your e-mails that include your website address. It is a great way for people to quickly get to your site if they would like to learn more.
CONTENT: Include content on your website that people want to read. If you have difficultly creating articles hire someone to do it for you. Content is King on the internet make sure yours is worth reading.
www.maryellengibson.comHelp advice for marketing/advertising my website?
Hi
First things first - get the site off MySpace and get your own domain.
By all means have your own myspace pages linking deep into your own domain as part of your strategy.
keeping exclusively with myspace will ensure that any PR you do is for MySpace and not your site!!
As others have said use forums, blogs etc to create links with RELEVANT content.
To make sure you are seen one of the most important factors about any SEO strategy is CONTENT, CONTENT and more CONTENT.
If you are forced to stay on myspace then GET RID OF FLASH - search engines hate it!!
Any pages you promote - ask them for a return link
good luck
Try ,,www.jtseek.com,, good site for this !
Hi www.myspace.com/gigsinyourarea
I'd advise you stick to the free methods for the time being. They may be a little costly in terms of time but they don't dent your pocket.
Articles: this is a good way to advertise since it allows you to write a detailed report or review about your product or just use some really catchy copy. You can write these yourself (cheapest) or hire a freelancer (costs but perhaps easier). To boost sales a good idea is to put your link at the bottom of the article or in the body of text. This way people who are interested in your products can go straight to your site. Be sure to use keywords in your article to help search engines find it. A good site to post on is ezine articles (its what i use).
Blogs: pretty much the same as above. Keep them short and sweet. Good if you update your products regularly as you can post any new developments or whatever. Again use links. Blogger is a good site for this but there are many others.
Forums: they can be time consuming but offer you a captive audience and basically an niche market of customers since the forums are usually very specific. Simply search the forums, find the best one and start posting. Get yourself known and use your profile as the promotional tool, placing your url in their so forum users can go to your site.
SEO: search engine optimisation - a fancy term which basically means using keywords in your website and other tricks to ensure you rank high in the search engines. Its a really competetive method and not as free as it sounds with programs and other tricks to ensure that your sight is optimised. To be fair the above methods are more promising.
Online communities: sites like facebook have tons of traffic going to them daily and numerous options for advertising. As you know people waste hours on these sites so where better to place ads. Not only that but they have groups where discussions are held (groups that you can set up, control and use to push your site). Even your profile can be a haven for advertising your site. As usual you want to have links in whatever you do. I know i harp on about this but if you miss an opportunity to place a link then you will kick yourself.
Emails: pretty good to allow people to know about upcoming events or your blog page. To build a list you need some way to get people to give you their email. The online communities and forums are good for this. Perhaps you could create a landing page with a email sign up form. Whatever method you use make sure you don't overdo it. You don't want to scare off customers by emailing them too often so keep it to important changes or updates but make sure you do it often enough so they don't forget about you.
Finally i give you the paid for method.
PPC or pay per click is a cracking way to advertise. Basically you look up keywords related to your site then you go to a company such as google adwords or adsense and you bid for these keywords. Bids can be from $10-$50 per keyword and it can get very expensive. When you have bid on the keywords succesfully though whenever they are entered in an appropriate search engine then your link will appear in the sponsored links section (other SE's may have different areas). This makes sure lots of people see your link but its a competitive market so you may have to pay top dollar to get anything half way decent. Again expense is the issue here and unless you have a budget then this may be the wrong method for you.
I hope this helps your business and the best of luck.
David Barclay
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