How do you make your site well known?

[suppau]

I believe by submitting into search engines wouldn't help much. So, how do your promote your site? Any free and guaranteed way of success? Please share. Thanks.

 

[.X.]

I don't know of anything that is guaranteed in this business,But i will give you tips that have helped me.

1.Market and promote wisely,Don't interfere with your competetors in doing your marketing and promoting,Your competetors are your friends and always respect that,And respect them,This will hold the integrity of your campain.

2.Map out a plan of strategy,Make a list of possible advertisers for your campain,Stay as close to the subject that your site service has to offer,Example: A casino site should not be promoted on a Domain name site.So stay within your realm.Carefuly research the list of sites you may consider advertising with,This is very important,You don't want to advertise with unpopular sites,As well as try to compete with one of your competetors on the same site.

3.Submit your site monthly to all the search engines,Change your keywords as necessary to keep your site crawling with search bots.Indexing your site is very important,Indexing with link exchanges can be rewarding aswell.

4.Consider forming relationships with sites of simular content,Consider affiliation and partnership,But choose very wisely,And do not affiliate with a bunch of sites,Best results,Find ONE site to affiliate with,Keep your relationship with your affiliate honest,Meaning,Stay loyal to your affiliate and meet thier needs,Keep your lines of communcation very open with your affiliate to meet thier needs at all times.Never converse with other site owners concerning an affiliation once you have established a relationship and an affiliation with one site.

5.Run very low keyword cost google adwords campain.This will only help you establish your site much faster,Be specific in your ad campain,Don't scour your ad with misleading information,Keep it real and honest.


Thier is no way to ever guarantee success,But research is the biggest part of launching your development and keeping it going,Ethics is key to your success,Patience is a must.Work hard and stay focused.Use your own ideas,Never work off of other peoples ideas,Make your site unique,Theme it ect.Set it apart from others.

I wish you the very best of luck with your development

 

[StudioWorks]

Good search engine optimization onpage and offpage .

When it comes to forming relationships with other sites ( or link exchanges ) , please do so with sites, as Xfactor said, with similar content. A link from a site with similar content as your worths more then 10 links from different sites but not related in any way with you.

Cheers.

 

[crtreedude]

One thing that helped my site a lot was to submit to DMOZ - after getting into them, I found I was all over the place.

Since DMOZ is reviewed by people, make sure you have a solid website before submitting - and make sure you have good content.

 

[StudioWorks]

Yes but submission to dmoz can take months.. months until they review your site and then if the site doesn't follow their guidelines it might be rejected. And you have to submit it once again and wait some months again until i gets review.

I had to wait 1 year until i got a site listed in Dmoz.

 

[.X.]

Yes but submission to dmoz can take months.. months until they review your site and then if the site doesn't follow their guidelines it might be rejected. And you have to submit it once again and wait some months again until i gets review.

I had to wait 1 year until i got a site listed in Dmoz.

I agree,They just take to long,And timing is everything when you are launching.

 

[StudioWorks]

Yeah but once your site is listed in dmoz.. well then you can expect some good traffic.

Also, editors at dmoz opened a forum where people can ask questions about their site's status and many more. Here's the address : http://resource-zone.com/forum/

:wave:

 

[.X.]

No doubt once listed you get good traffic,But in pre-launch and launch of site i focus on other options because of the time frame it takes them to get a site listed.

Yeah but once your site is listed in dmoz.. well then you can expect some good traffic.

Also, editors at dmoz opened a forum where people can ask questions about their site's status and many more. Here's the address : http://resource-zone.com/forum/

:wave:

 

[mole]

Ever since Google unplugged DMOZ, the value of the directory has been going downhill faster than a rat-ski with rockets, methinks.

 

[billinchina]

Link partnerships are important as they mentioned. DMOZ is so hard to get into, that I wouldn't even bother submitting your link. Also, you're service (or product presentation) has to look fabulous and be absolutely compelling. The web is soooo competetive. Take a look at your site with unbiased eyes. Would you join it (or buy from it) if you just stumbled across it? If not, then which sites on the web would you use (or have you used)... Spend lots of time making it convert well so you won't end up wasting a bunch of money and time on acquiring traffic which doesn't convert. Also, the better the site, the better "word of mouth" works to your advantage.

 

[primacomputer]

#1 is good content. If you have something special people will find it come back, and tell their friends.

For a quick boost from search engines get backlinks from sites that are already listed. If you have a few popular sites it is easy to jump start a new one. Failing that list in free directories that are specific (very specific) to your content. A day or two as a “new site” on the front page of a targeted directory can work wonders.