Need Advice

[webgear]

I just run teen forum ( www.teenforums.us ) but I really want to make it popular so I need good and cheap (if can ) to promote it and to get a lot new visitors and grow it up.

Thanks in advance to all !

 

[bwhite82]

The best way is to get fellow webmasters to post your link on their (related) site. Be sure to have a robots.txt file to let those bots crawl your site too. Submit your site to Google's and Yahoo's directory (numerous attempts may be needed, no more than once per 2 weeks). I have come to learn that you need patience, other than what i've outlined above, there's not much you can do but wait, wait until your site becomes known, this could take a year or longer. The other, quicker option, is to use Yahoo's "priemere" services and pay out the ying-yang to get your site listed quickly. Good luck!

 

[webgear]

Thank you a lot for fast reply .
How to create robots.txt ?

 

[bwhite82]

I'd suggest you do a little research on the "robots.txt" file. But basically, this is all you need to do, IF and only IF you don't mind the bots crawling all parts of your site. Open notepad, and paste the following into it:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Save that as robots.txt into your ROOT web directory. What this does is this:
Whenever a bot, for example, Googlebot, crawls your site, the FIRST thing it does is look for that robots.txt file to see if your site is OK to crawl, if it is, it will crawl and index it. Simple as that.

 

[skrilla]

kool

Thats awsome... by adding robots.txt this will get your site indexed faster?

 

[bwhite82]

In a word, yes. This makes your site "bot friendly". Some bots won't even crawl your site without this file. Heck, most good webmasters know to put this in their root directory, check out Namepros They have some "bot offlimits" listed in their file.

 

[allinone]

I just run teen forum ( www.teenforums.us ) but I really want to make it popular so I need good and cheap (if can ) to promote it and to get a lot new visitors and grow it up.

Thanks in advance to all !

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