TECHNIQUES FOR PROMOTING WEBSITE ARE YOU USING THE RIGHT STRATEGIES?
Promoting Website Techniques vary from website publisher to website publisher.
So, how do you chose your promotional tactics?
Start off by submitting your site to the top four search engines.
Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN Live. This is a simple process where you submit your site map. After doing so, it will take some time before the search engines pay you a visit.
Once they visit, it takes awhile longer before they index your pages and list them. In the mean time you need to keep building Content Rich pages.
Once you have 30 to 35 pages you need to put the word out about your site.
Promoting Website is meant to bring you your targeted visitor.
You need to find a Links Exchange site that fits your market and has good quality website owner participation.
There is no need to pay for joining an exchange. There are plenty of good exchange sites that are free.
Linkreferral is one of my favorites due to the participation of its members. It is also a great place to have others review your site. You can receive very informative comments that help you evaluate your site content and performance. Go ahead and click on the button to take a look.Be sure to use your back button to return here.
Another great place is The Web Owners Zone. Super friendly site for promoting websites with other owners.
Submit your site to niche directories you will find a number of directories that will fit with your niche.
Just be aware of upgrading pitches on these sites. Generally it will not provide traffic sufficiently to cover the expense.
Request Reciprocal Links find sites that are related to yours but not competitive and ask site owner about exchanging links. Having them link to a free offer or service on your site is a good place to direct the link to.
You need to develop a link page for your out going links to other sites. This keeps your site visitors on your pages longer and they won't be leaving your pages through outbound links as quickly.
When asking for a link exchange don't expect to receive one from a top ranked site right off the top. Instead look for a good site with traffic rank close to yours.
Alexa is a good ranking to use for this decision.
Be sure you look at Ken Evoy's free Site Sell Value Exchange. Registering your site says you are willing to exchange links with complimentary sites. The program searches its data base and sends you the information, you can then visit the sites listed and contact the owners of those you chose.
Do not link to sites that are not related to your site.You want quality related links only.
The above promoting website techniques will start driving traffic to your web pages while the site is new and you are building more content rich pages. The search engines are very slow and before you can rank with them you have to have links from other sites to yours. So start working the exchange sites and join sites that are geared towards site owners and participate.
After you get the above started and working for you it is time to get more traffic through a different channel.
Page two of Promoting Website will map your next moves for you.