In your youthful, wisdom what is the besy way to advertise a website?
I have recently set up a legitimate business website and had underestimated how hard it would be to advertise my site without spending a fortune.
So I ask you all in your youthful wisdom of all internetty things how would you go about advertising a website for free or very little money? I seriously expect you to tell me things I didnt already know and make my website a page rank busting fortune making mutherfuker! This Entrepreneurial webmaster is all ears.... |
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What does your legitimate business website do?
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Give me $100 and I'll put it in my forum signiture and IRC quit message for a week.
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Also ... i've been thinking about setting up a website for a while now and i've researched it, drawing up a business plan etc. Crashtester you're a ****ing moron if you didn't know all you possibly could about the online market place before you bought your website address and hosting.
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If the site is an online only buisness endeavour, you will have a lot of hurdles to pass through. In all honesty, unless you have some groundbreaking idea that will draw them hordes, you won't see all that much buisness for quite some time. |
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DACE: well i am not a moron and I do know about online marketing, but as I said 'I seriously expect you to tell me things I didnt already know and make my website a page rank busting fortune making mutherfuker'
NODROG: as popular as you think you are, I dont think that would be worth $100 and would probably contravene this forums advertising rule. Besides which I doubt Planetarion forums are a) my target market b) important enough in my business field to increase my page rank sufficiently. So thanks but no thanks. TOMKAT: its real estate |
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put signs up all round town.
get a load of stickers and run round sticking them on all the for sale signs in your area. |
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From what he wrote i got the impression that it wasn't a website to supplement a real life business. Even if it was he should still want it to be as successful as possible which requires him to have researched properly. Also the "if it's an online business you probably won't see much in the way of money for a while" argument against stacking the odds in your favour is retarded also. If you know something's going to be hard you should work all the harder to make it succeed. |
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You come to a general discussion forum for a spreadsheet based space combat game and "seriously expect [us] to tell [you] things [you] didnt already know and make [your] website a page rank busting fortune making mutherfuker". I repeat, "You are a moron". |
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My website is supplementing a foreign business that currently has no UK exposure, therefore the website will be the single focal point for UK customers. It is already an established business in its country of origin.
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stop being so aggressive you silly little boy. feel honoured that {I} asked {YOU} for your advice. |
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Registering a domain and getting hosting take no effort and cost peanuts.
For anyone who's not absolutely skint, and thinks they have a good idea, there's very little harm in taking these steps first. The best way of getting people to visit a site is to have decent content. Aside from the listings, do you have pages containing helpful information for people looking to rent a house? (landlord tick-lists, 'things to consider', 'how much can i afford'...delete as applicable). You need to make sure that the key information is contained as such within your page. Have you used heading tags for headings? Are details like the location of properties given the prominence they deserve? If your site is targetted at a particular geographic area, you obviously limit the market, but it will be much easier to personalise the site to people looking. Things like 'local schools/parks/shopping centres' will be of interest to people, and make you a little different to other places. If you're not trying to target everywhere, and can find someone else doing a similar thing in a different area, you can agree to swap links. setup some traffic-logging on your site and see how people are finding it, what search-terms they're using to get there and so on- this can help you focus your attempts to increase the current trends, rather than wasting time on areas noone is interested in. paying for adverts is probably the best way to get people to your site though. |
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Youtube.
Make a video of yourself acting in a stupid manner. Place subliminal messages in between clips and have adverts before and after the video. For maximum effect make sure it's some really retarded shit. |
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I'll stop being agressive when you stop being retarded. I fear i shall be agressive for life though. |
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How do you discover new sites CrashTester?
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planetarion forums, innit!
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Good content -> word of mouth.
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pop-ups.
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1. Good content
2. A reason for people to return 3. search engine compatibility (technical) 4. search engine optimisation 5. link building After this re-evaluate the situation and decide on the next steps. Without the will for investment, it is a long process as you enter an extremely competative market. |
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Spray painting the external fuel tank of a space shuttle
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Discover and target the demographic you want.
Get listed on google and MSN search .. google mostly for the under 30's.. MSN for the over 45's. Once you get a customer, treat them well and they will spread the word. Graphics and colours on your website that suit the product and a style that suits the age group your targetting. Not too many buttons and good navigation. but most of all, a product that everyone needs/wants/loves. |
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Drink ten pints of premium beer and shout out your slogan to anyone that's there to hear!
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Ok, for those interested;
I think I have made the page easy to navigate, I've kept the colours simple yet striking. I've done my best with content, the site itself if not the sort where the content will continually change except to add new property. I've got listings in Google, MSN, Yahoo and a couple of other lesser known engines, Ask.com picked it up a few weeks ago but the bot has not returned since. My page ranking is probably nil at the moment, I need to get some referral links. I have supplimented the site with a discussion board with a hope to get people to come back while they are thinking about buying a property. The iframe is going, it hasnt worked as planned and there are still one or two things that are to be implemented, but anyway, tell me what you think so far; www.kesenvillas.com I will take on board honest and constructive criticism even if its negative, I wont take personal insults from little people though. ;) |
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I actually quite like the layout. Not the colours though.
One problem I found was when I looked at a property and all the pics pop up (then under you can mouseover a word and it brings up a bigger picture) I cant always see the full picture. Only 2/3 of it. Apart from that you can have a :up: |
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why has noone spammed the forum yet :(
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the layout is reasonable, colours are yuck.
The words on the image at the top-right are unreadable (and unclickable, which I expected them to be). There's a big gap between the bottom of the header and the start of the content, when there doesn't need to be (Opera 9...possibly a browser thing?) Your headings should use heading tags, this aids with SE indexing. The 'more info' pages on the properties has a 'print' button, which is fairly useful for the type of page it is, but it's probably worth editing the layout a bit (CSS can allow print-only stylesheets that might help...) so it fits on a single page. There's also no link back to the rest of the site from these pages. meta-keywords don't have to be single words. rather than 'property', 'for' and 'sale' separately, you'd do better comining them. The 'title' of all your pages is the same. Making it applicable to the content will help. The 'details of the area' page could do with more information- information/links to hotels (prospective buyers will want to stay somewhere...perhaps look into arranging a discount and/or comission for referrals?), golf courses, etc. and maps of the area, showing where the properties are that you have listed. The site is seemingly aimed at UK buyers, yet all the prices quoted are in Euros- this is confusing. The 'how to buy' guide is confusing, but the 'summary' at the top is a bit too short- something that explains the legalese in English would probably be of use. The email link in the header links to a non-existant page: prefix the email address with 'mailto:' or put together a contact-form. The discussion forum is ridiculously slow to load- this is unprofessional and offputting. Having lots of empty forums is offputting- better (imo) to start with just a couple, and then make more as you notice particular themes becoming common enough to warrant a forum of their own. Having the forum integrated with the rest of your site would be better, but that obviously requires a bit more tech-knowledge. Hopefully some things to think about |
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I would help but I know someone in pretty much direct competition with you :(
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Thanks for the freedback SYMM, here are some replies;
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The gap you see is a browser thing Im sure. There is actually an iframe there displaying images which I dont think is loading for you (popup blockers I suspect). This is being removed and replaced - the idea just didnt workout! Quote:
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Maps are to be added. Just another of those little things I need to do! Quote:
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I will look to integrate the forums which would be my ideal but again, as you say this requires a bit more teccy knowledge with I need to work out when I have the time. Quote:
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Yes it is. And truth be told that is what Ive done so far. However, its not very professional if a customer comes to my website and sees the same area guide as the website before! Thats why I would like to change it all to our own content. Who does your friend work for by the way? |
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I think I've loaded a large resolution image instead of the smaller one, all the others seem OK to me. Cheers |
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My new website is successful And earning monies ;)
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What's the secret to your success?
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Google ads! People clicking on google ads :)
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It requires many hundreds of thousands of daily visitors to even get close to supporting a small team via PPC ads. You must have a pretty notable site if you are able to live off of a PPC site?
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Lol. I didn't say I was living off it but I am earning some money from google ads alone. It's a forum which ranks highly in its niche.
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What's your site?
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aforumwhichrankshighlyinitsniche.com
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I wish I could figure out a nice little passive income from some site that has low maintenance.
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