Promoting your website

why facebook, it's a social destruction tool. just have proper SEO.

Social networking site like face book is really useful to promote any site and to get target traffic.

Twitter has brought me much help. Love the Twitter.

twitter helped me too

Creating youtube videos and presentation can also help in getting quality and relvent traffic to the website and hence is one of the best points to promote your products and services.I have created youtube channel with 47 videos, twitter, facebook accounts, posting on business listing sites like alibaba. I am also running a forum like websitedesignforum which is oriented towards Technical Discussions. Running a social networking website with lot of features.

I've been told that statistically, facebook and youtube are the best ways for exposure. I use another forum and there was a guy that had a whole submission going on about creating a facebook page for your business - most of it was self-promoting, but there were a few real gems of info in there.

It is the sign of the times. Today Facebook but at one point even Myspace was seen as the way to promote the business. I think like many people have said there are many ways to promote and facebook is one of many. Lists and keeping your customers up to date is another way.

use facebook pages .. which will help you max exposure ... I used it for my portal and it is doing good .. all the best

Google is now looking at websites in terms of a hierarchy of reputation. If you are posted in an article by you on your blog with 20 members vs. posted in Huffington Post by a staff writer, the HP article will bost your search engine rankings... IF they mention products, services and keywords that describe your businees.

Additionally, linkshare sites are not ranked in this way. Just because some fellow can make a massive page with useless links does not mean it will have value too google.

-Madeline

Hi Guys,

Just signed up but as I am employeed as a Website Developer thought this was right in my alley.
What you have suggested above with social netowrking such as Facebook, myspace, twitter do help alot, but also take in to account that blogs, joining forum and even youtube videos can help boost traffic to your site.

The main key feature is keep it clean keep it simple, so that the users and browsers can understand it easily.

Anyways thats my 2cent input, catch you all around

Roman
You Go Designs

I use Twitter, Facebook, You tube and Blogger to promote my painting business and have gotten traffic to my website from all of them. The most traffic seems to come from Twitter and Blogger. I always put a link with my tweets using a link shortener and I also use # to categorize the tweet If you have some knowledge about your industry then start a blog. For me anyway it seems to be a good source of traffic.

I agree, just get your name and your skill set out there

I think Twitter is the best, I used twitter to promote my blog.

Does it hinder SEO? Is that what you mean?

What were you promoting?

The only social site that I ever got any results from is Twitter. I don't use it very often, but when I do it's just to promote my illustration work.

With social media websites such as Facebook and twitter, it’s useful for getting your website or company seen and the use of word of mouth becomes more useful as a key though social media websites as been said many times in this topic. However organic web search also help, showing up on Google using SEO such as backlinks and making sure your website is being looked at by search engines, there are many websites that can teach you how to do this, along with many companies that offer decent prices for these services and for the amount of views that this can bring it’s well worth the cost.

Iam promoting a newly built website and the most of the traffic iam getting is from forum/blogs and facebook no traffic from twitter has been received yet

So, as a matter of interest. Do many of you definitely get much new business from Twitter or Facebook? Just curious as never had time.