How can i advertise my website well?

[visualbasicguide]

I have a website and the traffic isn't really good

i need help advertising my website for better traffic. i have submitted my website to search engines but they just won't shoot up as my traffic is low

I prefer it free so no adwords , adbrite etc.

[Kenny D]

I think this is what you are looking for (sort of?) I run a small business myself selling mainly through my online store. I have recently struck a deal on zimzar.com and I have already increased my traffic by a huge amount.

Check out http://www.zimzar.com A recently launched website which brings advertisers, businesses, organisations and individuals with anyone with a social networking page, videos (think how many hits some videos receive in a day), blogs and website to trade, sponsor, swap and negotiate their own deals for embedding adverts,URLs and more. If you are a business, it can be a great way to reach a mass audience whilst on a really tight budget, you can even offer free products to the person you work with if you are low on funds.
It's completely free to register so its worth a look.
Good luck

[Gudsud55]

Add links.

[Anthony]

Here are some ideas:

- Develop trusted inbound links
- Write & Syndicate articles
- Develop a blog
- Make a YouTube Video pointing people to your website
- Use Social Media websites

Any of these should make a difference; all of them together should put you on the map.

[Peintros]

This is what you should do:


Directories:
Don’t bother with them unless you can get into DMOZ or Yahoo. I can assure you, your time will be wasted submitting to tens of thousands of directories.
DMOZ
http://www.dmoz.org/
Yahoo
https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/

Press releases:
In order for this to work you better have worthy news.

Articles: If your website is about golf then you simply write a bunch of articles on golf and submit these to various article directories. Each article should contain a link back to your website.
Articles Directories:
1.http://www.goarticles.com
2.http://www.ezinearticles.com/
3.http://www.articlecity.com/
4.http://www.certificate.net/wwio/
5.http://www.amazines.com/
6.http://www.articledashboard.com/
7.http://www.article-directory.net/
8.http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/
9.http://www.magportal.com/
10.http://www.isnare.com/
11.http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/
12.http://www.article-hangout.com/
13.http://www.webarticles.com/
14.http://www.articlecube.com/
15.http://articles4content.com/
16.http://www.article-buzz.com/
17.http://www.free-articles-zone.com/
18.http://www.newarticlesonline.com/
19.http://www.articletogo.com/
20.http://www.articleworld.net/
21.http://www.impactarticles.com/
22.http://www.articlealley.com/
23.http://www.directorygold.com/
24.http://dir.salon.com/
25.http://www.articlefever.com/
26.http://www.content-articles.com/
28.http://www.niche-article-directory.com/
29.http://www.jogena.com/articles/articleform.htm
30.http://news.collectors.org/
31.http://article-niche.com/
32.http://blogtelecast.com
33.http://superpublisher.com/
34.http://www.articlecentral.com
35.http://www.article-directory.net
36.http://www.article-emporium.com
37.http://www.ebooksnbytes.com
38.http://www.ideamarketers.com
39.http://www.internethomebusinessarticles.com
40.http://www.site-reference.com
41.http://www.stickysauce.com


Commenting on blogs and posting on forums:
Some forums will let you have a link in your signature when you post.
Thus you can get backlink from those.

Social bookmarking:
List of a few hundred bookmarking sites >
http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/01/all-s...kmark.html

Social news:
For instance submit stories to http://digg.com/

Social engineering:
Everyone is human, so use those skills to attract people to your site.

Classifieds:
Posting classified ads will bring you backlinks

http://www.gumtree.com/
http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html

Add widgets to your blog:
Such as recent post, PR, Alexa rank ect...

And for last social networks work pretty well, talk to your friends, buddies ect about your site. Mouth to ear also works well.

Tutorials and Tips:
http://web-ebiz.blogspot.com/

Good luck

[vicseo]

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one's goods and services.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google's spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It's ranked No. 1!
Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

[comps]

Write articles about your website or ideas.
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[Seth]

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