Website promotion...

[NightmareAngel]

What is the most effective way to promote ones website? I would like to hear from people who have experiences in this field...

[is0lized]

get a good design, submit to search engines and have meta tags, and the best ones are (for me)

word of mouth!

link exchanges

[cowax]

Time is the key. There is no site that got 10 million veiwers in its first 2 days

[is0lized]

i havnt been arround long ( a month for my new site )

and i get more hits then alot people that have been arround for a few years, 700 hits a day, not much but its a personal site


most by word of mouth

[Nick]

Originally posted by is0lized
and i get more hits then alot people that have been arround for a few years, 700 hits a day, not much but its a personal site

My guess is that those are not uniques... Well, considering your META-TAGs with all those porn words in them and the fact that you probablly used AddWeb since it is/was on your site's files section... I wouldn't be suprised if you got 700 uniques/day.

[keith]

porn phrases in your meta tags, eh is0lized? what a dork.

[is0lized]

Originally posted by keith
porn phrases in your meta tags, eh is0lized? what a dork.

you never have any nice thinsg to say eh keith?

[keith]

i say nice things to people who deserve it. i think packing your meta tags with porn references to cheaply gain visitors doesn't constitute having anything nice said about you. it's decietful, desperate, and pathetic.

try adding stuff to your site that people might actually go out of their way to visit, and you won't have to worry about putting all the decieving porn phrases in there to gain perverted visitors who find your site by accident.


From is0lized's cheesy site:


03/023/001 by RitZZ
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been busy...



wow, there's a golden nugget of info for ya... sheez.

[polygon]

Well, I broke most of those rules.

(1) Good design? I did an extremely dumb and simple design myself (though an artist did the logo). Go ahead and sneer; I have no plans to change it. (2) Meta tags? I still haven't gotten around to using them. (3) Link exchanges? I have never actively pursued them (I do have a reciprocal links page, but almost all of those links were found, not requested). (4) Porn words? No way. (5) Search engine submissions? Back in 1996, I submitted the site to Alta Vista, but I have hardly bothered with those since then.

Well, yeah, obviously time is a factor. This July 1st will be the five year birthday for the site. Unfortunately the URL has changed quite a few times during those five years.

During calendar year 2000, my site got more than 1.4 million visitors (unique IP addresses per day), and over 8.3 million file hits. This year is running something like 30% ahead of last year. (See the stats pages for 2000 and 2001 off my main page.)

So where did all that traffic come from? Content!

I have a lot of content on my site which is available nowhere else online. And all of it is in text format which is readily listed in search engines and found by my users. Most people find my site through the search engines. Many of them bookmark it and keep coming back.

When people like your site and find it useful, there are unexpected fringe benefits. Like media coverage. Thousands of links. Unsolicited awards. Fan mail, even. Random people you meet at parties already know about your web site.

Ad revenue? Yeah, but nothing to get excited about. I'm not quitting my day job.

The target audience I had in mind was extremely small, maybe a few hundred people nationwide. The audience I found is many times larger than that.

Traffic on the Web is still growing. There are enormous opportunities to create popular niche sites with good content -- as long as you're not looking to get rich.