Internet Marketing Tycoon

**luckyman** · 02-10-2009, 11:32 AM

hello,
the site is in question is 1st on the signature link.
it is new so there is some stuff i need to sort out first.
but how can i promote it and get traffic.
cheers

**mradwords** · 02-10-2009, 02:20 PM

Here are 7 ways you can promote your sites:

1. AdWords: Google make billions of dollars every year from the AdWords-AdSense combo. Why is that? Because they work. Adwords is probably the most efficient method to generated raw traffic for your website. In order to get started you should create an account, add lots (by lots I mean hundreds if not thousands) of keywords that are related your site and set the maximum Pay-per-Click rate at $0.01. After that raise the rate by $0.01 every week or so until you start getting the desired amount of daily clicks. Notice that at lower bids the keywords will be reported as “Inactive for Search”. Do not worry about it, it just means that your ads will not appear on the search network (Google’s search results), but they will appear on the content network (websites of people that use AdSense).

2. Site-Specific AdWords: if you pay attention to the AdSense units you will see that most of them have a link titled “Advertise on this site”. This feature enables AdWords advertisers to create customized ads that will be displayed only on specific websites. Those ads work on a CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) rather than a CPC (cost per click) basis, but they can generate a good amount of very targeted traffic since you will be in control of where the ad will be displayed and of the message. You can get even better results if you use some creativity when designing the ads, click here for some examples.

3. StumbleUpon Ads: StumbleUpon is a very innovative social bookmarking site that allows users to discover great websites by using a browser toolbar. When the user clicks on “Stumble” he will be delivered a website that people with similar interested rated positively. The user is also able to give positive and negative ratings to any website that he visits on the Internet. StumbleUpon also offers advertising campaigns, called StumbleUpon Ads, where you can deliver your website directly to those “Stumblers”. It costs $0.05 per page delivered, but since the websites that appear on StumbleUpon usually have a high quality it is very likely that part of that paid traffic will convert into regular readers.

4. Text Link Ads: if you are trying to increase your search engine rankings to leverage organic traffic you should consider buying some text link ads. While those text links can also generate direct traffic the biggest benefit you will have is an improvement on your search rankings, specially if the links are placed on authoritative and relevant websites. There are several places to buy text links, including specialized companies like Text-Link-Ads and Text Link Brokers or online forums like Digital Point’s market place.

5. Direct Banner Sales: most established websites sell banner ads or sponsorship plans directly. Those advertising deals usually are structured with weekly or monthly fees, regardless of the number of impressions or clicks that you will get. Despite this characteristic a banner placement can represent good value for money because apart from the direct traffic you will also create visibility and brand awareness. Readers of the website where you will display your banner will associate the message on the banner with your site or blog. Should they come across that banner or message two or three times it is very likely that they will get curious and decide to check what the buzz is all about. Another advantage of banner placements is the fact that people will unconsciously think that the author of the website endorses your content or product.

6. Sponsored Reviews: buying some sponsored reviews is a good way to kick-start a website. They will bring backlinks, traffic and RSS subscribers. There are many market studies confirming that “word of mouth” is the most efficient way to capture people’s attention, and that is just what you get with sponsored reviews. You can either pay a low price (sometimes as low as $5 per review) to get a large number of reviews from small sites or you can focus on large players (which can charge several hundreds of dollars for a single review) that are authorities on your niche. The best way to purchase sponsored reviews is through sites like SponsoredReviews.com, ReviewMe or PayPerPost.com.

7. Blog Networks: there are several blog networks founded around a traffic exchange principle. Basically you create an account for you blog and you earn credits by surfing other members’ blogs. Afterwards you can use those credits to make people visit your blog or to display your banners around the network. The interesting part is that most of those blog networks allow users to purchase credits with money, and the price is really convenient. You should be able receive hundreds of visitors or to get thousands of banner impressions for less than 10 dollars. Some blog networks that sell credits include Blog Explosion, Blog Soldiers and Blog Advance.

**luckyman** · 04:12 PM

wow, that is a very nice list. thanks.
but do you have unpaid solutions as well?
i'm a bit tight on dough

**gldean** · 02-10-2009, 08:31 PM

That is a great post mradwords! Other ways may be article and directory submissions, oneway links, backlinks, blog posting. Lots of free ways to advertise you just have to put your time in.

Regards,
GD

**jason13** · 02-10-2009, 09:07 PM

nice list
ive got adsense on mine now

**thefandango** · 02-10-2009, 09:12 PM

on page SEO for multiple landing pages each with targeted search terms.

**luckyman** · 02-11-2009, 06:11 AM

forums are a good way i suppose, and social netowrks

**jabo** · 02-11-2009, 06:28 AM

I don't seem to locate a description tag for your first site, its kinda is important as this is what will show up in SERP of search engines and this is what visitors are going to read and decide on if visiting the site can answer their queries.

**luckyman** · 02-11-2009, 06:39 AM

hello, yes, just done them for the search results.
will do homepage next
cheers

**andylaubobby** · 02-18-2009, 04:44 PM

nice list!

My 2 cents and some free ways:

1. Article submission. For example, ezinearticles.com which you can submission your article to promote your website.
2. write an ebook and submit to scribd.com or may be put the ebook in some other sites as well.
3. Link exchanges. Ask other sites to exchange link to your sites. It is a lot of works compare to other paid text links broker company (ie, like my company - see signature). However, it may work if your budget is very tight.
4. social network promotion. For example, ning, facebook, myspace.
5. other social media. For example, squidoo, etc.
6. forum and newsgroup promotion. It is also a lot of work and not as effective but it is free.

Hope this help. 8)

**megan isla** · 02-20-2009, 05:19 AM

there numerous ways in promoting your site, for FREE or paid ones. Link building, directory/search engine submission, blog commenting, article submission, social bookmarking and the list goes on. It requires a lot of time so you have to work on it.

**jabo** · 02-20-2009, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luckyman

hello, yes, just done them for the search results.
will do homepage next
cheers

its best to categorize your keywords per page and do those tags differently on different page to describe them better and to target your keywords best.

**martworld** · 02-21-2009, 04:32 AM

To get immidiate traffic,Adwords is the best solution.you get targeted & low cost traffic.

**nicoletiern** · 03-03-2009, 08:43 PM

You can waste a lot of time trying to learn how to do it all by yourself, but in the end you’d be putting your efforts on something you’re not really good at, you could instead get some other guys to do it for you and you just work on your own site.

**poison17** · 03-04-2009, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by megan isla

there numerous ways in promoting your site, for FREE or paid ones. Link building, directory/search engine submission, blog commenting, article submission, social bookmarking and the list goes on. It requires a lot of time so you have to work on it.

yes, this is how can you promote your website, if you don't want to spend any dime on it. If you have money to invest, use adwords, but keep in mind that you need to research some keywords, as is a heavy battle for good keywords there.

Right here in this forum you can find some usefully informations that can help you promote your site.

List with the best social bookmarking sites:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/intern...okmarking.html

List with the best do-follow forums where you can promote:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/intern...do-follow.html

List with the best 1500 free web directories:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/web-di...0-free-do.html

List with the best 100 article directories:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/web-di...e-article.html

**Sully** · 03-04-2009, 11:00 PM

You might consider adding a blog to the site with a link to the blog on the site homepage and then list on the blog a new item daily that you have added to your database. Accepting submissions to your database via your blog may be a lot of work on your part but it might also generate some traffic and interest. Make sure the site and blog are submitted or bookmarked at social networking sites. Link building takes a lot of time to get good results, just keep at it as there are free dofollow networking sites you can set up a profile on, set up bookmarks, etc.

**Joe.forex** · 03-07-2009, 06:47 AM

Do some:

* article submission
* forum posting (through signature)
* web directory submission
* blog directory submission
* participating in community sites like Yahoo Answers
* press release submission
* online group posting
* promotional ads
* link exchange
* Social bookmarking
* Feed submission

**yomimedia** · 03-07-2009, 03:40 PM

forums are good way of getting backlinks then go to the lists above for the social bookmars.

**webdev08** · 03-11-2009, 12:48 PM

Create quality links through forum postings and blog commenting. This way, you could produce traffic to your site and help improve your search engine ranking.

**katev** · 03-12-2009, 01:59 PM

Although the process of Advertisement without money is a little bit longer that if you pay an expert to do it for you, that is a good alternative for you to learn and get your own results.