Help - How Can I Promote My Website?
Thursday, September 9th, 2010With billions of websites, how do I promote my website to help people find me? This is the question I hear most often from professionals and small business owners. It is a very important question. More than 85% of people looking for a business use internet search. Being found should be a top priority for every business.
The vast majority of people who say, “I need to know how to promote my website” think they already know how. Most of them actually do not know how to promote a site. And the question should actually be more specific. The correct question is: How do I promote my website in order to rank in the top ten results on the search engines?
A recent study showed that 97% of those who conducted the 61 billion searches performed every month do not click beyond page one. Now that search results include live social search results as well, ranking in the top ten for a keyword is the goal. If you cannot accomplish that, you can buy a sponsored ad that will appear high on the first page.
How Do I Promote My Website for those Results?
You need a marketing plan that integrates all of the most effective promotional tactics. You might be able to write the plan, but you also might do better to hire a consultant. You can manage it yourself, hire a marketing firm to do everything for you, or work with experts who will provide what you need. You will also need to find a balance between what you can do and what you cannot afford the time to do. Your plan will need to bring together the right tactics and use them in just the right way to reach your market. The way I promote my website will be different from the way you promote your website, especially in details.
I Want to Promote My Website Efficiently
This is also a question I hear frequently. Here are the tactics I use to promote my website and that I believe will serve you well in promoting yours.
- Do not build your own website. Hire a professional.
- Keyword Research
- Site SEO
- PPC ads on search engines
- Effective social media campaign, to build interest and to build incoming links to your site
- Plan your blogging
- Internal site links
- Content development plan
- Article marketing
- Get the attention of the media with press releases
- Submit the site to search engines, directories and indexes
- Use local search capabilities to the max
- Use landing pages
- A lead generation strategy
- It is worth the cost to have a system to manage leads
- Offer free items or information to get people to join your mailing list.
These are the primary methods you need to “promote my website.” If you can weave these together in a balanced way, you will have good site promotion and you will begin attracting high quality traffic to your site. When you say to me, “I need to promote my website” this is the best outline I can offer.
If you own a small business or professional and want to learn more about lead generation, see the free video, “How Article Promotion Can Drive 25,000 Visitors to Your Web Site Every Month - For Free.”
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