Promoting your website

Thanks for the detailed reply to my enquiry there. It's certainly interesting to hear other peoples thoughts on the subject. Thanks again!

Not every one is a member to a forum... but almost EVERYONE has some sort of social networking account..... at least I think

thanks for the article, have recently revamped my own companys web site , [ Edit: Link removed. Read the rules. AlphaMare. ] and we are really trying to push the social media sectors, we have facebook and twitter and are trying to integrate those as much as possible

I am personally a lover of Viral advertising over Social Networks, however I do feel that social networks have their place. Most people fail to realize the differences between advertising on a social network by completely eliminating the "social" aspect of their advertising campaign.

For example an advert run on Facebook that says "Check out our company" is going to receive far less clicks than an advert saying "16 of your friends like this company do you?".

Adding that social twist to your advert will greatly increase the click through rate (based on the fact that the product/service you are advertising appeals to the masses).

Twitter on the other hand, again in my opinion, is little more than subscribed spam, you really need a ludicrous number of followers to benefit substantially in any campaign.

When I promote via Twitter, my method is first to write an interesting press release and submit it to an independent site such as PRlog.org or something like that. Then promote that press release on twitter. Of course the press release contains a link to my site, therefore any traffic has literally jumped through hoops BEFORE they reach my site and the product or service of my campaign.

Finally if you are a "stats watcher" and your web site traffic for the day is a few unique clicks short of the previous day, then adding a bit.ly link to your site and throwing it on Twitter will certainly entice a few quick clicks and take you above the previous days threshold. This is only important if you are seeking to show a constant growth of traffic to your website and has no other real benefit.

Best regards
Arran Wood

You can go for Search Engine Optimization.

I've tried Twitter in the past and I don't seem to get any response whatsoever. Tweets seem to just get lost as soon as they're a few seconds/minutes old.

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You say above "Tweets seem to just get lost as soon as they're a few seconds/minutes old."...
I would just like to remind you that they just get lost on YOUR twitter because you follow so many people, if someone for example ONLY follows you, then your tweet's will be on THEIR pages forever.

Of course in reality lots of people follow lots of people hence tweets don't usually have a long shelf life but once you understand that factor you can make it work a little for you. ( I still think it's subscribed spam but hey that's me) enjoy.

Best regards
Arran Wood

While you are likely entirely correct about Yahoo, I've seen personally that a lot of companies respond not only to tweets to them, but tweets about them. It has paid a number of times for my wife to complain about Company X on Twitter when she's had poor service. So much so that the urge to abuse has been hard to combat.

How to do Article submission and Forum posting?

Social media would be useful if really have a lot of followers or likes depends if you open up your profile in facebook to public

Hmmm I forgot about that Facebook fan page thanks for clearing out things ... yup your right personal use and business use for social media is really different things

Now days Google + (plus) should be considered as a requirement for promoting your website. I'd suggest learning everything about Google plus, as it will be just as important as Twitter, Facebook, etc. moving forward.

I'd also suggest learning more about local search options.

TheGame 1264,

I agree regarding Facebook, but what do you think of Google+ ? More down the road than today, as I certainly don't think it is significant yet. However, with the Google brand, resources, and technology, I have to imagine they will have an impact down the road. The only question i my mind, is whether they overstep their bounds and alienate their customers, pushing people to other search engines.

What I have seen from Google + is that they may be screwing up traditional search if they are not careful. They are trying to change what "relevancy means" to search. The concept has some merit, but is some cases they are having sites show up that aren't relevant and in some cases are poor sites, just because their is some connection to the user.

We'll see where it goes, but they risk messing up a good thing.