Here's something I found. It might be useful.....
Who is this Article for? This article is for anyone and everyone. If you just started a new site, this article will help you to gain members and get active. If you have a large site opened for years already, then this article may help you to find new ways to advertise your site and get even bigger. Basically, if you wish to get your site bigger, then this article will help.
Do note that some of the techniques explored below may take time and patience in not only doing them, but also before seeing any type of gain in membership.
How to Get Started The best websites on the internet may not be the biggest websites. That is because the owner did a bad job of advertising his site to the public and getting the name out. With the right type of advertising, a website could become huge in a matter of a year.
To start, be sure you entire site is finished. This means design, concept, forums, and plenty of articles. You need tons of articles if you want the advertising any good. All the advertising in the world won’t help you if you don’t have something for the people visiting to read or view. Be absolutely sure everything is perfect (in your opinion and in others) before starting your “advertising spree” (as I call it).
Below I will break each type of advertising in different sections to help you decide which parts to read and which to skip. Let’s get started shall we?
Search Engine Advertising and Optimization This is by far the best thing you could possibly do to gain members. People search. This is a well known fact. Having your site searchable on the biggest search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN will prove to be the best thing you can possibly do.
However, search engine optimization is a huge topic that could take years of work to get its full potential. Rather than providing all of the information here, I will instead point you to various websites and provide small tips to help you get started.
If you run vBulletin and want to optimize it, then the following thread written by T2DMan will help greatly:
http://forum.time2dine.co.nz/showthread.php?t=98. Do note that the optimizations made currently only work for vBulletin 3.0.X. I’m sure T2DMan will port over many of the optimizations to vBulletin 3.5 when he is ready.
Unfortunately, I currently don’t have any information on optimizing other boards. If you have information, please contact me and I will update this guide with whatever information I may find.
As far as websites go, optimizing custom sites will probably prove easier than optimizing existing software. If you have a custom built CMS or have nothing but HTML files written by yourself, things will prove to be easier than if you were to use an existing product. Why? Because you know how the code works, where to make adjustments and additions, and how to do them.
A good guide to getting started is available at Google:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/Also, another guide exists on TAZ, available here:
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2893The first thing you can do is submit your site to all of the various search engines. You could save this part for last until of the below is done, but usually is takes a search engine spider a few days/weeks to get started on your site, so an early submission wouldn’t hurt, just be sure to get as much of the below finished before the spiders start rolling in. I’ve found
this site through Google that will automatically submit your site to many major search engines. However, I would recommend doing it manually just so you know that it was submitted for sure. Go to each major search engine, find their submission link, and add your site. For example, Google’s is located
here.
Next up, choose a keyword for your website. A keyword is basically what a user will type into a search engine before your site comes up. For example, if you are running a Detroit Pistons website, then a wise keyword to use would be Detroit Pistons or Pistons Basketball or even Detroit Basketball. Making a Google search for Detroit Pistons brings up NBA.com’s page for the Pistons as the first result. The second result is the Detroit News’ Pistons page. How did they do it?
First, if you’d look at the URL, they both have Pistons in the URL. That helps to get a higher rating. Next, the title of the site is Detroit Pistons. You can change the title by editing what’s in the
EDIT:
http://forumpromotion.net/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=3 There's an ad site.
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