Dominic Dat asked:


Most website owners will tell you the hardest part of setting up a website is the website promotion. Without that you will find it hard to attract visitors and make a success of your website. There are millions of websites out there competing for visitors, so website promotion is a very important, if not the most important part of building a successful website. But what if I was to tell you there is an easy way to promote your new website and that all it takes is a little forward planning from the outset.

Many websites come and go. Some of these websites have been heavily promoted, and their underlying domains carry on receiving lots of visitors even after the websites have gone and the domains expired. There are estimates showing that millions of visitors every day land on expired domains, and it is these visitors which could be visiting your new website.

Expired domains come about as a domain name has a limited life – a domain is registered for a fixed period, normally one or two years. If the domain isn’t renewed after this time then it will expire and become available for other people to register once again. The owners of many of these domains have spent a lot of time and money promoting these domains in order to get lots of visitors every day.

You may find it odd that a website receiving visitors gets abandoned and left to expire. There are many reasons why websites are left to expire – a change of life by the owner, or it was a project they tried and got bored with, or they simply didn’t realise how many visitors they were getting, or… The list goes on. The question shouldn’t be why has the domain expired, but how many visitors does it receive and is it suitable for my chosen website topic?

Before you start your new website, you want to carefully consider your domain name. You could keep trying different domains with the registrars to see which ones are available, but most of the good domain names are already taken. If you do happen to find a domain name you like, and its available, then you will still need to plan ahead and look into website promotion. Without that you will find it hard to attract visitors.

But what if you could find a domain that has already been promoted in the past, and is about to become available. Surely that is an option considering very seriously. You could be receiving traffic from the moment you put your website up on the internet. Of course you will want to promote your new website, but using a domain that has already been promoted could give you a good head start.

The trick is to find a domain appropriate for your website idea, that receives lots of visitors, and is about to expire. A tall order, but there is help out there. There are several websites which offer differing services on expiring domains and I would recommend you taking a look.

Angad Singh Thandi asked:


One way of increasing traffic your website is through promotion of well written articles. Articles that promote websites, products or services are widely acceptable and in fact getting popular as a tool to drive up website traffic. Many internet users are constantly on the lookout for information to increase knowledge in their areas of interest. Hence, well written articles are in demand. An excellent way of keeping your website updated and current is through article marketing. Articles that provide the latest information about your company and its products can serve as an important way of creating inward links to your website.

Article marketing is done through the posting of keyword-focused articles on article sites that then syndicate your content. Some of these article syndication sites have a significant readership following thus making article marketing an important website promotion technique.

Most article syndication sites allow you to post your content for free. Once published, your content becomes available for all to see – and potentially reuse. When properly done, articles posted on syndicated article sites can then become "link bait" for other sites. For example, you own a home business that sells closet organizers. If you or your web content writer writes an article about organizing office, others who may want to post a blog entry about how to organize an office may link to your article. In this way, you can get increased exposure for your writing and your subject matter, especially if the article site gets a great deal more traffic than your own website, which is fairly likely.

Some article sites allow you to include HTML links in your articles. You can then link your keyword phrase to the page on your website you are trying to promote for that keyword – a highly effective search engine optimization technique. Some others do not allow you to do that, but they will have no objections with you including links in your resource box (your profile or signature information used to let people know who you are), which adds important one-way backlinks to your website.

Article syndication sites also typically allow readers to conditionally include your article on their site. Conditions typically include the requirement that whoever reuses your article must cite you as the author and must retain any links in the article. As you can imagine, this will certainly provide additional opportunities to increase your site traffic and also get the buzz out about your article. Even if you have to pay to have the article ghost written for you, it is fairly inexpensive to have a good article written by a knowledgeable ghost writer and you still get the credit! Therefore, article marketing can be a very cost effective means of website promotion for your home business.

Dave90210 asked:


When it comes to website promotion, many individuals out there do not take a moment to think about website promotion as they are building their website business plans. Then when it all comes to an end, those individuals realize just how important website promotion is. Within this article, we are going to tell you some basic information on website promotion.

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When it comes to website promotion, you should keep in mind that it is not just to tell people about your website and getting visitors to come to your website. The real meaning of website promotion is to get a higher amount of traffic to your website with what is called organic targeted visitors.

The first thing you will need to do is submit the website you have made into all different directories and search engines and don’t forget the other websites out there. This process sounds easy, but it can take a lot of time and it is the first step you should take while you are doing website promotion. Another method that has proven to be pretty effective to promote your website is called SEO, search engine optimization.

When it comes to search engine optimization, you should keep in mind that it takes more than just submitting the website to search engines and directories. When it comes to your website, if you want to have top rankings, you will need to check the keyword frequency, keyword density, make sure it has the right keywords, Meta tags, etc. You should also make sure your website has a ton of inbound links from high ranking websites in order to be on the first three pages on Yahoo or Google.

Have you ever heard of pay per click (PPC)? Pay per click marketing is a popular method that is used by many different individuals because of the immediate result it gives. This method is different from search engine optimization marketing because you will be able to get the right amount of traffic to your website in only a little bit of time. The downside to pay per click marketing is the fact that it could end up costing a lot of money if you are bidding on a keyword and phase that is popular.

When it comes to website promotion, there is no doubt that it is very important for your website but you will need to plan it ahead of time. There is no such thing as quick and easy to be on the top in website promotion. You should also keep in mind that website promotion is a process that you will need to keep up with in order to bring those quality organic visitors to view your website. The truth is that it never ends.

Sami Fab asked:


You may have heard the statement, “the real Internet marketing secret is that there is no secret”. I personally like to say, “the secret is hidden in plain view”. Yes, the secret is hidden right in front of your eyes on your very own website.

So let’s take a look at some of these so called secrets. Below are just 3 startling secrets of what is crippling your website and your chances of getting the success you always dreamed about:

1- Website promotion is a total waste of your time if your site structure is not adjusted for your desired outcome when someone visits your site. The fix is dead easy when you match the structure to your actual goal for the website and the visitors.

So your task is to work out exactly what “you” want from your website visitors. Then set the structure that channels the visitor to take that action. With that structure in place you then have to match the traffic sources to deliver exactly the kind of visitor who suit your goal and that your goal suits them.

2- Pretty much all aspiring entrepreneurs are very poor at defining what it is they want from their website visitors. You’re reading this, so you are almost certainly suffering from this problem. There is no shame or stigma attached to this issue since you’re looking for the solution.

You’ve made a good start. Now you must follow through and complete your task. You must define what it is you want to happen on your website.

Numerous tests have shown that a single purpose website or web page is much easier to get right than a multipurpose one. But the more critical fact you should note is this:

A single purpose website is often enormously more successful than a multipurpose one. Website promotion is also a breeze for a single purpose website. By contrast there are no easy or quick options for promoting a website with multiple purposes.

By “single purpose” I mean you only have one desired outcome. For example, you may want to build a substantial following of readers with whom you build a rapport and long term relationship. This might best be achieved using a blog with a very narrow and well defined focus.

Why “narrow”? It specifies exactly the readership profile you want. Why “well defined”? the readership that ‘you’ desire will easily identify your subject matter and of course being exactly who you want, they will respond as you wanted.

I hope you noticed the message here. For clarity: the message is, it is much easier to please a group who want one thing than to please a mixed crowd who have different requirements.

In the latter case any offering of yours will only be suitable for small portion of the crowd. All the rest will be turned off by whatever you’re offering.

3- Do you know the difference between the top websites in your niche and yours? I bet you don’t know the huge differences. The good news they are really easy to fix.

And no I’m not about to tell you what the differences are. How could I possibly do that, without seeing your website and theirs? If anyone offers some magical solution then you should know you’re about to be conned.

What I can tell you is this: there are two broad types of factors called. on-page factors and off-page factors.

I’m not purely talking about SEO though that too is involved. There is much more to effective website promotion than just search engine optimization. You need to look at both types of factors.

So visit your greatest competitors and see what it is they’re doing. Get an expert to look with you. Cast a critical eye on their website and identify at least some of the standard best practices they’re engaged in. Emulate (not copy) those practices.

Right there, is a secret hidden in plain sight. Those best practices are there for good reason. As someone with over 20 years IT experience and over 15 years professional Internet experience, I can tell you this:

It is the combination of all those little differences and practices that puts your competitors right up there at the top. It is “simply” the lack of a whole list of simple items and components that is killing your website.

Just go through your site one step at a time. Fix these items one at a time. In a shorter time than you expect, yours will be the website that everyone else will see at the top of the field.