what are successful ways to advertise my hair salon ?

[VanessaCUH]

[Choicex]

1. submit your website to Google Local Business
2. get as many links to your website as possible
3. submit your website to directories
4. consider joining social networking websites

If you have products or services to offer submit your website to Google Local Business

This can help you can gain top search results in Google for your products or services using the Local Business service from Google. You will need to register for a googlemail account then submit your website / business details to Google's local business centre.

http://www.google.com/local/add

Marketing your Website using Directories and Website Links

Search engines also use the 'number and quality' of links to your website as part of the process in identifying 'how popular' your website is the 'anchor text' used in the links to your website as a guide to 'what your website is about'.

This makes the importance of links to your website one of the most important things to consider.

1. You should try and get as many links to your websites as possible.
2. Try to get links from content related web pages (content relevant website links)
3. Try to get KEYWORD links, these are links that use 'content relevant keywords' as the anchor text.

The next step is to get links to your website. This is one of the most important things that you can do to help your website with regard to internet marketing and search engine results. To do this you will need to list your website on as many websites and directories as possible. Directories operate in one of 3 ways: Paid Listing Directory, Free and Reciprocal Link Directories.

Paid Listing Directory: for a listing fee your website is listed, often these are higher quality directories as only serious website owners and business's will pay to be listed. These are usually the fastest way to get listed and get links to your website, as the paid listing directories are run as a business. There are niche/specialist and general directories.

Free Directories: it can take a long time to get your website listed. As the service is free, there may be little or no control of the quality of websites being listed.

DMOZ is the most important free directory, it can take quite some time to get listed, but worth the effort, follow submission guidelines very carefully.

http://www.dmoz.org

Social Networking Websites, joining these will connect you with other people with similar interests and these may take an interest in looking at your website

http://www.facebook.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.digg.com

Yahoo Answers, answering questions with good information that you have some expertise with. In doing so you will be helping other people and that may lead on to more contacts or people enquiring about your area of knowledge and website.

Good Luck

[UdorL Jane]

ONLINE
1] Classifieds; use them as a lot of people browse them;
Vivastreet
Locanto
LocalAds
Craigslist
Adoos
e-Corkboard
Franglo
Adtrader

2] Social networking sites; team up with people;
Facebook
Bebo
MySpace
Ning

Tip: You can repost your ad on a weekly, monthly basis with some classifieds. With social sites keep people up to date and add new people on a daily basis.

OFFLINE
1] Door to door leaflet posting
2] Ask to put mini ad in shop windows
3] Radio advertising