Saturday, May 12, 2007

How To Promote A Website

Most business today includes a replicated website. There are some tried-and-true methods to how to promote a website, but I think that people rely on them too much. Everyone knows some of the standard how to promote website techniques: you want to increase hits, increase visibility, and increased traffic in any way you can. This can be done by getting keyword optimized web content, signing up for ad space on various other websites, setting up business referral arrangements and the like.

However, the problem is that everyone uses these approaches. There are literally thousands upon thousands of people in your area of expertise or desired interested involved in doing exactly the same thing. Thus, it is obvious why there is a problem. There can be only so many people who can rank high in any given Google, Yahoo or MSN search.

These techniques are good to learn how to promote a website, but it cannot be your only strategy. Unless you are very good at SEO optimized content, you need something more site-specific.

This article will be continued in my next post.

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