Here’s a couple topics and suggestions that you can use to promote your own website that will cost you nothing but time.
Get involved.
You get out what you put in. Don’t expect to build a website and a week or even a month later think that people are going to magically find you online. Building an online presence and ranking well in popular search engines takes a lot of time and it is a process that requires continuous attention and by just spending a few hours per week you can see some very positive results.
Blog it up.
Start talking about your craft, your weekend or even posting some funny videos you think your readers might enjoy. You may be thinking how will I even get any readers to my blog and the answer comes back to the first point of getting involved. Search out some blogs that are relevant to yours and share your opinions via comments and link back to your blog. If you actually read articles and write quality comments the blog poster would most likely at least check your blog out and if they like what they see then you may have yourself a follower. Don’t cut corners or just comment on 100 blogs saying things like “I enjoyed your post” because it is very obvious you just posted for the link and may bloggers will not approve your comment.
Choose Quality, not Quantity.
Referencing back to the post above, when you’re promoting your site across the net try and focus on quality websites to either comment or list your site on. More often than not Google will not only not reward your site for linking to sites that may appear spammy or irrelevant but they will actually penalize you. Many people think that getting websites ranked in search engines comes down to the number of links you have pointing at your site and they couldn’t be more wrong.
Age, age and more age.
Search engines love age, especially Google. By age I mean not only the age of the domain but the age of the links pointing to the site. Think about it, would a site be more relevant that is 5 months old with 100 indexed links pointing at it or a site that is 7 years old with 100 links coming in for those 7 years. It’s a no brainer and age is something you must attain from continuous hard work on your site and in due time, could be months or years, your site will get rewarded most definately.
I hope you enjoyed the insight and this information will benefit you and your website in the future.
Todd Helvik
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September 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Very very solid advice Todd. I work for a start-up in Indiana and we’re trying to stake our claim in the market through savvy advertising and search engine optimization. We revamped our blog recently keeping the “quality over quantity” concept in mind.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Couldn’t agree more with the tip on quality, not quantity. So many amateur webmasters just don’t understand this.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Marketing is not hard, but it requires a lot of dedication to be effective. Preparation, in my opinion, is very important. In the world of marketing, it is all about testing different kind of marketing campaigns and find out the ones that are the most effective from both cost and results perspectives. Do your home work before putting it all out on the table is very important, then you just have to keep on trying until you have a solid campaign that works.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Thanks for the great tips. I just started a job in online marketing and I can see this blog being very helpful. I’ve bookmarked and I look forward to future postings.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
With the right knowledge and the right attitude and a generous amount of determination anything is possible. These are great tips. It’s rare, but great to find useful information with so much information available. Thank you!
December 8th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Those are some real good facts said by you. Having a good quality content on the site is a very effective way to present your website to the search engines.
December 13th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Your factual arguments are appreciateable. I also think that good and qualitative content and form is better than artificiality and fake materials.
December 17th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Every thing in life demands strong commitment. Same is the business and marketing. Mostly quality matters a lot in thew process of strengthening ans boosting.