Internet marketing help...need to make a website viral in less than a week!?

[Enrique]

Okay so I work for some programmers working on a website, not sure if I should post it but I will. Its called rufflesraffles.com. Its a great system and so far we have had almost 5,000 hits and already sent out prizes we hoped that winners would spread the word but it seems like they just keep it a secret. I am part of the marketing team and I have searched for a million and a half ways to increase traffic with no luck. We have a meeting with some investors and advertisers next week and we are supposed to have a substantially increasing public...I have five accounts on Facebook and I have had no luck there I post have naked women on YouTube and get like a million hits but noone visits the website on the girls boob and I have even tried selling stuff on craigslist all over the country stating I won it on ruffles Raffles. I am tired and out of ideas! I have tried mass email marketing which sucks because it usually just gets filtered into spam folder I have even tried paying for Google ads its just the benefits don't outweigh the harm(costs $1.25 per click on the ad and raffle entries cost $1 and some are free but make us a dollar so we wold lose $.25 advertising with Google, same story with Facebook a little less with MySpace but MySpace is dead for what they charge). I want someone to offer help, legitimate ideas, I am begging you, I could potentially loose my job please don't answer it takes time...please don't...I know its true but not true too, I created a blog about hacking a PSP a while back when I was in high-school, its been 3 years and that website has only had 1,390 visitors half of which were probably me.

[jamie]

tl;dr

How much money do you have?
What is your market that you are trying to target?

If you tell us these things I and or other people will find it easier to help you.

[Michael B]

Setting up a blog is very easy but you have one fundamental problem with the raffle website. You are not targeting any keywords, not even in the title tag. Before you go create another site to drive traffic, you need to address the keyword problem, otherwise Google will not give you any organic (non-paid traffic. You need an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert plain and simple. If you want I would be happy to talk to you about your situation. I'm sure I can be of help. My website is listed in the source section

[juliepelletier]

Sorry but it would cost your many thousands of dollars to get real visitors so fast.

You should hire a SEO expert or learn SEO yourself and in a few months your site will get better.

Here are my initial observations:
- Your home page's title is "home" instead of anything related to your keywords.
- Begging for testimonials on the home page is repulsive and usually means the site is no good.
- The site contains absolutely no content other than your raffles. Making a few pages describing the concepts would be a start.
- You have absolutely 0 incoming links and only one link from the site pointing to itself.
- You should focus on charities in your site's description, not just on the legal page that no one will look at.

A good free course on SEO is available at http://responder.juzaz.com/?l=GYWK