social networking

Dying Domain Name Game

The Good Old Days. When I first started working on the web, back in the ’90s, the web seemed wide open. There were opportunities all over the place. There was no Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, or even Google! It was like the wild west where you could get away with anything. As the 21st century unfolded, [...]


The #1 Way to Get Google/Yahoo/Bing to Love Your Website

Everyone wants to rank #1 for a higly-competitive, highly advertised, and high traffic keyword. If you could be in the 1st, or top 5, or top 10 for debt consolidation, would you leap at the opportunity? However, it takes more than a willingness to work to rank highly in the search engines. The Way of [...]


How do you promote a social networking site?

1. Put a “send to a friend” from on some of your pages. Don’t have them click on a link that goes to the form. You want it in front of their faces. 2. As usual, do click ads. Start with as many search engines as you can. Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Ask, LookSmart…. 3. [...]


More tips for promoting a website

Follow W3C standards (http://www.w3.org/). It helps your site in the long run. Your local community sports teams offer cheap, but highly effective sponsorship opportunities. Publicize your site on related forums – but don’t spam! Ask bloggers to write about your site or product – in return for a link, of course. Offer a competition related [...]


Just a few ways to promote your website

When launching a new website, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to social bookmarking sites like Digg (http://www.digg.com/), Reddit (http://reddit.com/) and Now Public (http://www.nowpublic.com/). Create a Yahoo Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/) for your site’s niche. Create a MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/) account to publicize your site. Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) and if add a [...]