Chronolgical steps in marketing your Website

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Website marketing can be a daunting task. After you have designed your site, you need to determine the marketing method to apply for the promotion of your website.

Below is a rough chronological guide that can be used. Please note that these methods are harmlessly used together all the time. This guide is for the newbie who may want to try out many methods.

1. Search Engine Optimization
2. Directory Submission.
3. Link swaps, link exchange, link buying
4. Pay Per click or Pay per Views marketing
5. Article submission to Ezines
6. Email marketing
7. Social media marketing
8. Forum posting.

Remember that there are very many other methods out there. For each one, repetitive application is very important.
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  • Profile picture of the author butters
    I wouldn't exactly call this a guide... Not even sure what you call it, all you have done is listed types of traffic sources, great... Why not explain how you do each one of them.
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  • Profile picture of the author mr2monster
    Originally Posted by grafx77 View Post

    Website marketing can be a daunting task. After you have designed your site, you need to determine the marketing method to apply for the promotion of your website.

    Below is a rough chronological guide that can be used. Please note that these methods are harmlessly used together all the time. This guide is for the newbie who may want to try out many methods.

    1. Search Engine Optimization
    2. Directory Submission.
    3. Link swaps, link exchange, link buying
    4. Pay Per click or Pay per Views marketing
    5. Article submission to Ezines
    6. Email marketing
    7. Social media marketing
    8. Forum posting.

    Remember that there are very many other methods out there. For each one, repetitive application is very important.


    Well, for starters, I'd disagree with your chronological order.... SEO is always the LAST thing i concentrate on since it takes the longest. That said, the entire time I'm building something I do so in a way that is SEO friendly.. but trying to get ranked for keywords that may or may not convert for you is just play silly. The first major marketing step I always take is to TEST with PPC to FIND the best keywords (that actually convert).

    Secondly, it's not really a guide.


    If I were to place the marketing of my site in a chronological order, it would probably go something like:

    1. Submit URL to major search engines
    2. Create social hubs on places like twitter and facebook and wire them together with links back to my landing pages, create relevance pages and establish a presence on other platforms in addition to your website.
    3. Invest $XXX into PPC to figure out what keywords are profitable for my specific website
    4. Create compelling website content revolving around those keywords
    5. Write marketing articles using those keywords as anchor text back to my site
    6. Stumble and digg, etc. all articles and such and work on backlinks from prominent sites.
    7. Focus on SEO for my profitable keywords, focus on those heavily.
    8. Repeat steps 3-8 indefinitely.
    9. Expand by recruiting JV's and/or affiliates
    10. Do things that get you noticed in your niche... make other people talk about you.


    That's just off the very top of my head. Reading back through it, I can see about 100 more steps that I'd add in there, but this post was mostly for illustration.
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    • Profile picture of the author wmboy
      Hi grafx77,

      A fellow member of #WIS2010?
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