Looking for info on website advertising

[Shadowknight]

I'm making a movie review/mockery site in the vein of Television Without Pity. Is there any resources out there that recommend the best way to advertise that the site exists? It's almost ready to go, but despite submitting the address to google a month ago, when I search for the page throught the search engine, nothing comes up. Yet my livejournal references to it show up easily. Go figure.

 

[nanette1985]

I assume you know the latest info about keywords. After that, Google looks for links to your site. A top site in a competitive category can have thousands of quality links, but you can get traffic on a lot less.

Submitting to directories other than Google is a smart idea (google for other things; the biggies are Yahoo and MSN but there are thousands of other directories). Posting on relevant message boards - ones that allow your info in your sig - is surprisingly effective.

It "traditional" (love that, it's only been a year or two) to post a blog that links to your web site. It doubles the amount of info that Google puts into analyzing sites. Update the blog, and the website, every few days.

Also, you can sell your info on ebay (very cheap, ebook) and put into your about-me info the link to your site. It's cool to get paid for attracting traffic. Follow ebay's rules, of course.

Offline public relations can get you a lot of interest, if done right and if you have the right kind of site. Your local paper will print most anything about a "local guy has new business". Find a journalism student to write PR for you as a project.

Good luck.

 

[iamaelephant]

I tried to keep Google away from my website but despite banning every Google-owned IP that arrived at my site and writing a robots.txt file telling them to ah heck off they indexed my entire website within a few days. I get more traffic from Google bots than any other source, they are a huge pain in the butt. It's not hard to get listed on Google but as princess ida said, it's difficult to get noticed in a competitive category.