4 Marketing Tips June 6
Found an interesting article on doshdosh about
How to Promote Your Website with $100 and I thought I would expand upon the idea. The problem for most web developers is that they forget the basics when promoting their website. There are a lot of things you can do to promote your site that require time and not a whole lot of money.
1) Submit your website to search engines: Google, Yahoo, & MSN. The process is relatively easy to do and shouldn’t take longer then 15 minutes.
2) Submit your website to a vertical search engine. The most successful engines are subsections of the big boys and finding information about them is relatively easy. Google Product Search (formally Froogle) and Yahoo Product Submit are both well known but for better results try to find vertical searches related to your product field.
3) Use EBay as a lead generator. Rumor has it is that there is more searches done on EBay everyday then there is on Google. Bonus, everyone searching EBay is definitely looking to purchase a product and not for information. Sell a small product that breaks even and harvest the sales information for related products.
4) Use social networks. Some businesses just appear lame on MySpace.com but maybe your business will take off on Linkedin.com. My favorite bar, Mulligen’s Pub uses MySpace exclusively for their advertising. Bonus, linking to a popular social network can be very beneficial to SEO because of the abundence of inbound links.
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