Site Promotion

One of the best ways to first promote your site is not always through expensive advertising campaigns on the internet but is to add your website address to all your flyers and business cards or if your selling products to your product packaging. Other places to think about is on your work van / car and work signs. Even having it on a t-shirt can help!

More often that not people will look for people’s websites before phoning them up to get a better idea of what they want and what you can offer instead of the phoning up and being talked into something they didn’t want, so its always worth getting your flyers/business cards updated as soon as you have your website made.

Link Building

So you want to start to get some more traffic to your site and to get it ranked higher?

Link building is a valuable resource in helping to direct more traffic to your site and you should start by creating or getting a links page created for your site.

Before you begin on link building you should know this is one of the harder points in SEO and takes alot more time and should not expect results within a few days but a few months. The aim is to build up some high quality inbound links to your website.

You should starting by finding other similar websites that have some relation to your website that you think would be useful such as if your selling books another book store offering different kinds of books could be a good source of traffic. Writing them a quick email asking if they would place your link on their website and in return you will place their link on your links page if the first thing to do but many people ingore the bot generated emails so always avoid this sort.  Also always check to see if they have already a “submit a link” page where you can add your link first, to save emailing them.

Other places to add your website link is business directory’s there is many directory’s that you can add your link to for free is a good source of tariff. Doing a quick search for business directory’s on any major search engine will bring back lots of results of sites you could get your link added to.

There is many other places and service that you can add your website to for a cost but before doing this always check to see how many people are already listed and if it can really be beneficial to you and your business. An example of this type is the yellow pages you should try and stay away from people who offer ” a page rank 6 link at $33″  most of these wount help your site.

Things to remember when requesting and adding reciprocal links:

• Its better to add your link to sites that have some relation to yours in some way otherwise you could get alot of tariff but none of it of any use.
• The better quality of the site you add your link to will give you better weight with search engines. For an example a site that’s ranked on the first page of Google and has 1,000 hits a day is much better than 5 sites ranked on the 80th page of Google that gets 10 hits day.

If you have any questions or other ways in link building please leave a comment.

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AdsFlip a new service recently launched by iwebtools that is well known for its web master tools now offers you a chance to join their advertising network for free and earn 1000 free credits on sign-up!

How it works

You sign-up to their website and place an ad on your website that looks very similar to Google ads and every time your page is loaded showing an ad, Adsflip will give you 1 credit!

That’s how simple it is!

You can then also create an ad and choose which category your website fits into such as “Internet” and then add your keywords, URL etc
Once complete you can then assign how many of your credits you would like to give to your ad and that’s it, it will now show on all content related websites untill your credits balance is 0. ( in which time you have made more from your site)

Advantages to your site:

• Promoting your site to loads of sites!

• Extra traffic!

• And best of all its free!

Its still in its beta stage so there is bound to be a few bugs but I would recommend get signed up and get some free traffic!

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