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Old 10-22-2006, 04:47 PM How to market my site when there are so many others
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I just purchased a domain name which relates to recipes. My question is how can I differ from those who have recipe sites( there are so many)? And where do I begin to find people since it will be a new recipe site?
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Old 10-23-2006, 12:28 AM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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that's a pretty broad question, but how many of those recipe sites hav forums? That might be one way to stand out.

You can start with PPC if you want (and if you have a budget) to gain initial visitors, but focusing on organic is key, IMO.
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Old 10-29-2006, 02:59 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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Hello tgmiller5,

Ive been oonline full time for 10 years now and the best way to market or promote yourself is to build relationships with other business owners.

So instead of trying to sell to one person your affectivly reaching the people of influence who will do the selling for you.

Remember this, as this is the foundation of the internet....
Networking with other people is where its at and how you will quickly succeed online.


You make deals with the people of influence. Like offering their related product or service as a bonus to your potential customers for joining your list or buying your product/service. This is just an example. You have to think "outside the box". make a deal that is unique.

Example 2) let the people of influence put their related product/service on your site in exchange for telling their list about your site.

So leverage what the internet already offers.
Networking With Other People


I hope this helps...
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Old 11-03-2006, 08:57 AM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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Tgmiller5,

Consider the following:

1. Use unique and quality content in your site.
2. Update this content on a regular basis.
3. Build relationship with your visitors so that a great percentage of them become returning visitors.

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Old 11-07-2006, 11:14 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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As it is a new site, why don't you do a press release so that you site gets a little bit of media or if it doesn't get any media from the press release then at least you should get some backlinks, which will help your site in the search engines anyway.
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Old 11-10-2006, 06:03 AM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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Well make sure you site has its own USP. Maybe you are from a specific area that you can concentrate on. Have a launch competition to gain awareness and make sure you spend a bit of time buliding up links, participating in forums etc and some PPC/ advertising.
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Old 01-04-2007, 11:07 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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I just purchased a domain name which relates to recipes. My question is how can I differ from those who have recipe sites( there are so many)? And where do I begin to find people since it will be a new recipe site?

Hi.

I have one article to share here, hope it might be help.

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By Jennifer Shircel – owner of www.MomOnABudget.com



I’m one of those people that always wanted a website, but had no clue as to using the internet. I could check my email and that was about it. I never heard of ISP, FTP or all those other “words”.

When I discovered that I had the website making program Microsoft FrontPages I was determined to learn something about html. Then when I discovered I could earn some money by having a website I wanted to start yesterday! And here I am, still don’t know hardly anything, but I’m running a website! So believe me when I say, “if I can, you can!”

Here are some basics to get you going:

1.) Pick a topic. Decide what you want your site to be about. Be sure to choose something that is very interesting to you so that you keep your site new and exciting and your visitors returning. Research, research, research! Get a lot of information for your visitors to read. Add a lot of content to your site, not just link exchanges. Search engines (like yahoo and google) love content.

2.) Get web hosting and a domain name. The host is who holds your site on the internet and your domain name is www. What you want it to say .com. You can get free hosting, but these usually are not good for making money. They typically post their own ads and will not let you post any. But, if you’re looking for a free hsot to start with, I would check out Bravenet. They have a ton of freebies that you can use like web templates, visitor counters, chat rooms, guestbooks and a lot more. For inexpensive web hosting and domain names, I like 1&1. I purchased my domain name and web hosting from them for $4.99 a month!

3.) Design your site. This is the fun stuff ( if you’re the creative type). You may either do it yourself or you could pay a professional to do it. If you don’t know any html then you can purchase a program like Microsoft FrontPages or Dreamweaver and do it yourself. These programs make designing a website a snap! You can also find free web templates out there which have the basic design, you just have to add the words.

4.) Get affiliates for your site. Now this is where the “make money” part comes in. Being an affiliate means that you are helping companies to sell their products. Typically they will either pay you a commission on a sale of their product or by a click on their link. Be sure to choose affiliates that coincide with your topic. Some great places to go for affiliates are Google AdSense, Commission Junction, Click Bank, Amazon and ClubMom.

5.) Start Advertising. Add your sites url (the link to your site) to all of your signatures. Tell everyone you can about your new site; family, friends, coworkers—everyone! Add a link to your site in all of your emails. A good site to check out is www.MomPack.com You can find many other moms on there looking to help you advertise.

6.) Start Making Money!!
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Old 01-07-2007, 03:43 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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When i started out i had 100 million other site i had to beat to the top, when i told my family and friends that i was going to get to the top of the serach engines they all just laughed.

Well after 12 mts of hard work, by submiting my site to directories, link exchanging and adding good contents and more my site has just hit number one in the UK for loads of my keywords ( and everyone has stopped laughing )

So dont give up hope but be prepared to work hard and dont let anyone put you off.

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Did i say it is hard WORK!!!!

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Old 01-10-2007, 05:02 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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I have done some work for a recipe site before. For some reason just telling a few people about it got the site popular and generated quite a large % of traffic daily. It was a recipe sharing site and you may want to contact them. Their site is www.letssharerecipes.com they are all over in the serps. A big advantage to you is that most recipe related sites aren't that big, there is maybe 20 really big ones. The rest you can get past with a few SEO tricks to your site.
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Old 01-12-2007, 02:50 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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Blogs are hot.

If I were you I would start a blog about your site.
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Old 01-15-2007, 08:08 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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i have a nice idea post one of ur recipes - as an article or general talk in some forum, and put some of your links there. If they like the recipe, they will enter ur site . . .
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Old 01-16-2007, 07:03 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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What's the name of your domain? Aside from all the helpful advice already given, it helps if you have a domain name that is catchy and easy for people to remember.
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Old 01-18-2007, 05:45 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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My advice would be to target the site to a very specific niche of
recipes. The advtanges are twofold:

1. Less direct competition, means less people competing for #1.
2. More focussed appeal to the target market.

For the second one - people won't just drop by looking for all
sorts of recipes. If people are finding a very targeted niche site
through a search engine, they're likely to have searched for some
very specific terms. Such qualified visitors are going to be easier
to convert to newsletter subscribers, or however else you want
to monetize the site.
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Old 01-18-2007, 07:00 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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Old 01-22-2007, 09:42 PM Re: How to market my site when there are so many others
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Try writing articles (eg ezinearticles.com plus many others) with a backlink to your site, and social bookmarking, to build back links and a buzz ...
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