What is the best way to promote your website you might ask? Let me share with you some of the ways you can promote your website and you can decide for yourself which is best for you.
One of the way you get visitors to your website is through listing in a search engine. When people have no idea what is available on the web, the first thing they will try is a search engine. If your website appear in the first few pages, chances are that they will visit your site to have a look. Thus, the very first step in promoting your website would be to list in a search engine. Usually you can get this as part of the webhosting package if not, you can pay someone else to do it for you. There are companies out there who will get your site listed on 100's of search engine out there. One such company is network solutions who will do website promotions for you.
Another way to promote your website would be through viral marketing with sites such as entrecard.com which offers you a 125 x 125 banner ads through its members website. You purchase the space on a daily basis using credits which can be accumulated by visiting and dropping ur cards on the members site. You can also buy credits for use.
Yet another way to promote your site is through social networking website like facebook, myspace, hi5, etc. As the membership of these site are into the millions, you can easily reach out to this many people at a comparatively low price.
If you have the $$ i think the best way is just to spend the $$ and get the experts to your promoting for you. As they are doing it day-in-day-out they are well aware of the pitfalls as well as the shortcuts to a successful campaign. Thus, do check out network solutions for a custom package that they can create just to serve your very specific needs for your unique website. You would want to stand out in this information overload in order to meet your objectives.
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What happen dude? Why is my alexa ranking dropping? I always thought that it will keep increasing but i am wrong. Today, this site has suffer a severe drop in ranking. I am so sad about it. Wonder what is happening now.
Are less people visiting my site or are more people visiting other website? Actually the decrease happen after i put in some amazon widget on the site. Maybe that's what causing the alexa ranking to drop. I think i'll try removing the amazon widget to see if the alexa ranking improves.
i hope to make it into the top 100,000 site. I am half way there as i am 200+ K now. It used to be 178+ K ... Got to work harder improving this site alexa ranking!
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Once again, the busy bug drags me down and keeps me away from my blog for one whole week. How nice would it be if i can contribute 100% to my blog. However, that usually don't happen. And of course, the numbers of readers have remain stagnant at between 15-20 everyday.
I know visitor does not always equate to $$ but with more visitor at least the chance will be higher. The only traffic for this site actually comes from entrecard indirectly. Due to several "shortcuts" to drop cards, this site have a lot of direct traffic landing on www.phostan.com This may be good but usually the crowd don't stay for more than 30 secs. So, i would need to think of how i can capture their attention in 30 seconds or less.
Thinking ... thinking ... thinking ...
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Hope the title catches your attention as it did mine. :) I was surfing the net and found that www.1on40.com is offering to get your site to #1 position for the 5 keywords that you choose for FREE in 120 days. You are correct! It's FOC! I wonder how they manhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.quote.gif
insert blockquoteage to do it but according to the website, they are in BETA stage and thus, as a method to get more membership base, they are offering this free service till end of Apr. It would definitely be great if my site is able to be #1.
it's almost the end of april now so, hurry and signup before you need to pay for the service.
You can sign up here.
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As i was site hopping, i came across a pretty interesting experiment. A millionbloglist.com aims to find out how long it takes for 1,000,000 blog to get listed on the site. The site uses the wiki template and code to allow blog owners to add their blogs to the wiki. I am #706
I guessed that it will take between 1 - 3 months to complete this goal. As the site was started on 10 Apr, and there's 706 blogs added in just 10 days, going at the same rate, it will take a few months. However, as more of readers of the blog listed add their own blog to the list. The exponential growth rate will possible enable the site to meets its target in 1 - 3 months time.
To add your blog to the list, do visit millionbloglist.com
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In the latest update from alexa, this blog has increased its ranking from 300K to 200K ... wow .. that's an improvement of 100K. I wonder if there's really more readers reading my blog now? Cause i don't see much comments from my readers base. Maybe my posts are too boring to be worth commenting. Any way, writing blog every day really gets my brain working by forcing myself to think of a new idea everyday. This keeps my brain going and now, i can generate an idea to blog about pretty quickly.
Maybe it's time to force myself to write two original post a day to get my brain working more. :) Till then, look out for my daily dose of rumblings.
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Want more credits? Just drop a card!
To encourage website/blogs with lower ratings to drop more card, I am inviting entrecard site/blog with less than 50 credits to advertise on their site/blog to drop a card on my blog and leave a comment here. Then, i will advertise on your blog. I have about 1000 credits to give away, so 1000/50 gives me 20 person who will benefits from this campaign.
Good luck :P
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Day by day, www.phostan.com alexa ranking is inching up slowly but surely. From a few million when this blog just started to 400k+ to 300k+ now ... our rank is slowly increasing. Hopefully in a month time, this blog will be in the top 100k.
So why is traffic ranking important? This is because traffic ranking is a measure of how well received the blog is. It also reflects how much of the world came to know about this blog. In order to retain new visitor, you will need to bring in new visitor.
You can do that by viral marketing, ad placement with google, or submission to SEO company who will get you site on all search engine. Since search engine is the first place any surfers would go to search for information, you will definitely need to work you way up the keyword ladder in order for surfers to find your site.
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It has been several months since i started this blog. Perhaps, it's time to take stock on how this site have grown. As you can see from the graph, the traffic to this site is steadily increasing. This is pretty much good news as more people are visiting this site now.
Page Rank wise, Google did an update and it turns out that this site is now PR3. This is simply amazing! I almost gave up hope of getting a PR when this site is constantly PR0 when suddenly i checked and found that this site is not PR3. I hope i will be able to generate more traffic to this site and increase the PR once google updates again.
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I find out about qassia.com from http://turnipofpower.com/ and figures that i should take a look at qassia.com as well. Qassia is fantastic because you get credit for sharing your intelligence. The more credit you earn, the better your websites will rank. And you get a backlink to your website for every intel you add - only Qassia gives you unlimited quality backlinks. Last but not least, Qassia also has the best ad revenue sharing system on the Internet, so in effect you get paid for promoting your websites. Qassia rocks! The more people join Qassia, the more everyone will benefit, so give Qassia a spin. Signing up takes less than a minute, so you've got nothing to lose. See ya around! If it's unlimited quality backlinks + ad revenue sharing, i think it's worth it to join. It sounds too good to be true. Getting paid to promote your own site. But whether it's effective anot, let's check it out in a few weeks time.
Just read their marketing pitch.
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This is a traffic generation site that i found on the internet. I have no idea if it works, but no harm trying. Basing on my Alexa ranking today of 1,686,120 any improvements would means that rssHugger is working.
According to the about page, you'll get a chance to be in the top 100 list at rssHugger.com thus getting exposure to your site. In order to get into the top 100 list, you'll need to refer more people to your page.
We shall see what's the outcome of adding this blog to rssHugger.com
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Since the start of this blog and google start indexing my blog, there's always the problem of google having the same description of all my posts as shown in the picture on the right.
After enduring this for a few months, i came across a post by jackbook.com @ http://www.jackbook.com/2007/12/win-the-search-engine-wars-with-this-tricks.html i realise that a lot of people are also facing this problem and i modified my template according to the solutions provided. Thus, we shall see how my blog will look in google in a few days times.
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In a collaboration and trial to attract more traffic and readers to our blog, we will be trying out a weekly contest real soon, the best part is the winner will get NOT 1 but 2 technorati authority from this site and my partner's site. In additional to that, the winner will be getting some monetary reward as well. So, if you want to be the first to find out how to win, subscribe to my RSS with your email.
I have no idea whether this will indeed generate more traffic for my blog but it's at least the first step i can take. The worst case would be just 1 person sign up for the contest and i would just take this as a learning experience and any $$ lost as lesson fees.
Keep watching this blog for the details.
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BlogCatalog.com and myBlogLog.com are two social networking blogger's network website that i have joined for the purpose of getting more traffic to my blog. One thing is for sure! They really works!!!
From BlogCatalog, i manage to get reviews and comments from people like coreli and JuStDeEzArTs who gave real and useful suggestions to improve my blog.
From myBlogLog, i manage to get links from people like awannabewritter who was the first person i reviewed on my blog.
In addition, after i signed up for both networks, my RSS readers increased to a all time high of 16 today. Before signing up i was like getting 2 or 3 readers a day.
It's definitely a must to join and be pro-active in these social network bloggers community in order to generate traffic to your blog.
However, without constant update and new content, you won't be able to retain all these new traffic. I am still in the midst of determining how best to retain these new traffic thus if you have any suggestions, do feel free to give some feedback and look forward to me implementing those suggestions you gave.
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I want to have a target for my blog. It would be to have at least a technorati blog reaction a day. The current way i am doing it is by link exchange. By reviewing other people's blog, i get a link on their blog. With my review, their blog will get a technorati reaction as well. Other than doing this, i would need to come up with better content in order for other to link to my blog. The only reason why i am blogging about another website/blog is because i found the content interesting and useful to me. Thus, i would need to find a way for others to find my blog being useful or interesting to them. Some of the interesting things i found are: innovative online advertising/revenue generating site, traffic exchange site/blog, book style blog, tech review blog, there's basically no end to the countless amount of interesting subjects on the web.
Should my blog be just focused on a particular topic?
Should my blog still continues its direction as a very general blog and posting about every interesting i found?
For a beginner like me, i think it's easier to be a general blog as i can just pluck any topics in my mind and blog about it. There's no need for me to try different presentation technique to showcase one fixed topic.
Maybe once this blog is matured enough, i'll start a niche blog. Till then, i keep to my one technorati reaction a day goal.
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As expected, after alexa updated the correct page rank of my blog my blog juice dropped from 2.1 to 0.7 at least it's still better than the 0.6 before i suddenly become 2.1.
Now it's time to work even harder to try to get my blog juice higher.
There are the things i will be doing:
1) Review more blog and get them to review mine so that i can increase my technorati rankings
- In measureable terms, i want to have 1 new authority everyday.
2) Try to get more subscribes to bloglines by writing better contents and coming up with a way to get people back to this site
- maybe a daily/weekly freebies might help?
3) Try to increase my alexa rankings by getting more traffic to my blog.
- I think i must join more social networking site and traffic generation site.
In the mean time, wish my luck as i try to increase my blog ratings. Feel free to give your comments on how i can improve my blog. If your suggestions worked, i can be a testimonial to your success.
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This post is made due to a request from alman. So, do drop by his blog to have a look :)
If you have no idea what is BlogRush.com, it's actually a traffic generation site and you can read more about it on my blog here.
First, if you have not sign up for a BlogRush account, you can do it --> Here <-- After you have done that, you have to add your blog to BlogRush by filling up the form as shown below and submitting it.
Once that is done, you'll see the screen as shown below. You can change the look of the widget by following the instructions on the screenshot below. After you are happy with the look, copy all the code boxed in red in the screenshot below.
That's all you have to do at BlogRush site.
Now, login to your blogspot account and follow the steps below.
1) Go to Template -> Page Elements
2) Locate the column where you want to place the BlogRush Widget and click "Add a Page Element"
3) On the popup, look for HTML/Javascript as shown below and click "Add to Blog"
4) Paste the code you copied from BlogRush into the text field as shown below and click "Save Changes"
5) You can now adjust the position by draging and dropping the HTML/Javascript to your desired location.
PS: Click the pictures to have a larger view.
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While surfing the net looking for blog community to join, i came across BlogSoc.com which is recently started with only 188 members at of today. After joining the community, i feel that the concept introduced here might just work.
Making use of points system; you get points by actively being involved in add friends, sending message, being added into the favourite of other members. As the network gets bigger and bigger, you'll be able to earn some $$. I don't think it will be much but it's still a start. The website will be paying once it reaches 300 members + 1 month. So, do join me at this new BlogSoc.com be signing up here.
Below is the mission, vision of BlogSoc.com:
BlogSoc.com is bloggers society site. It is made by bloggers for bloggers and main reason why it was created is to promote interesting blogs and bloggers themself. If You want to promote Your blog and meet with society, it is right place to be.
Now BlogSoc.com members have great opportunity to earn shares in our society earnings and in future cash out real money.
Join now, become member of our society!
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BlogJuice is a free tool from text-link-ad which gives your blog/website a rating from 1 to 10 with 10 being the most popular blog/website. The rating is made up of the blog/website rank in bloglines subscribers, technorati rank, alexa rank, and number of links back to your blog/website.
It's so exciting watching the blogjuice ratings of my blog increasing from the original 0.2 to 0.6 yesterday. It was thanks to all the technorati blog reactions i am getting from awannabewritter as well as revellian. With this additional two authority, my technorati rank became 1,644,723. In addition, i included my blog in bloglines and thus, my blogjuice ratings became 0.6.
Today, out of a sudden, i found that my blogjuice increased to 2.1. This increase i think is due to an error with alexa. Instead of reporting the traffic rank of my blog, it's reporting the traffic rank of blogger as the rank of my blog. Therefore, out of a sudden, my alexa rank is 12. I think this will probably be corrected in a few days time.
Before you think of adding this widget to your blog/website, there's this one disadvantage of BlogJuice. The ratings don't get automatically updated on your blog/website. Every time your ratings increased/decreased, you'll need to copy and paste new code. I will be trying to write some code in the near future and offer a better alternative to this BlogJuice.
If you still want to add this blogjuice, do click here. Once you entered your url and choose a category, your blogjuice will be displayed and under that will be the code that you'll need to paste on your blog/website.
Happy looking at your blog/website blogjuice increasing.
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It time for a brand new look! Since this blog started a few months back, it been the same old blogger's look. I have been wanting to change it for quite some time. Finally, after much searching and hunting, i manage to find the one i like the most. Which is the one you see here. I got it from JackBook which is a really nice blog offering very nice templates you can use for your blog for free. The blog also teaches you how to install the templates and what are the possible ways to resolve common problems.
The direct link to this template download is available here and if you really like my new template, you can download it from there and follow the instructions there. If you face any problems, feel free to leave me a comment and i'll help you as much as i can.
Basically, i will be changing template every now and then in order to give my readers a fresh new look every couple of months. Do look out for the next new template i will changing for Christmas.
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