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Old 22-09-2007, 04:15 PM
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  1. If you’re launching a new site, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit and Netscape. See 23 Top Social Bookmarking sites for more great places to submit your content.
  2. Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
  3. Create a MySpace account and use it to publicise your site.
  4. Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you’re really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
  5. Create a Technorati account and “claim” your blog.
  6. Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found at Info Vilesilencer.
  7. Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
  8. Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.
  9. Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS feeds.
  10. Submit your RSS feeds to aggregator sites like FeedBurner, Squidoo, Feedboy, Jordomedia, FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint
  11. Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
  12. Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
  13. Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.
  14. Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here for more info.
  15. Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.
  16. Tell your friends about your site. It’s free advertising init.
  17. Speel cheek ur stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
  18. Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
  19. Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
  20. Don’t worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
  21. Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
  22. Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.
  23. Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
  24. Advertise your site on Craigslist. It’s free, relevant and localised.
  25. Do NOT use frames.
  26. Submit your site to DMOZ.org. It may take time, but it’s worth it.
  27. Create an XML sitemap of your site and submit it to Google.
  28. Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
  29. Ask a large breasted lady to wear one too.
  30. Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you’re a publisher, make some cash!
  31. On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
  32. Send out a newsletter!
  33. Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
  34. Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
  35. Don’t pay people to submit your site to search engines. It’s a waste of money.
  36. YouTube and Google Video are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.
  37. Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
  38. Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
  39. If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add “As Seen on TV” to your site!
  40. Avoid proprietary technologies like Java and Active X.
  41. Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it’s not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.
  42. Learn about CSS. It’s the new HTML.
  43. Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.
  44. Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
  45. Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid http://www.yourdomain.com/pgInfoPage...CFE3AEDAF8DD9D
  46. If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a “Skip Intro” link.
  47. Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desperate for stories and you may well even get a picture of your ugly mug published.
  48. Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.
  49. Donate money to a charity and most will place a link on their site back to you.
  50. Abide to W3C standards - it will help your site in the long term.
  51. Your local community sports teams offer cheap, but highly effective sponsorship opportunities.
  52. Publisise your site on related forums - but don’t spam!
  53. Ask bloggers to write about your site or product - in return for a link of course.
  54. Offer a competition related to something in the news - so football around the time of the World Cup etc.
  55. Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.
  56. Have a Sitemap on your site to allow users to navigate around quickly and to aid the search engines.
  57. Have a nice keyword rich title at the top of each of your pages. Users and search engines both like descriptive titles.
  58. Include a Feedburner button on your site so people can easily subscribe to your feed.
  59. If you use PPC then create a landing page for each of your AdWords - it’ll boost your conversations no end.
  60. Appear on Dragon’s Den.
  61. Create a Press section on your site where can you store all your press releases, logos and banners.
  62. Add a link to your site from within your eBay profile.
  63. Ask your friends to give you honest feedback on your site.
  64. The best way to find someone to do any kind of work on your site is through personal recommendation.
  65. Gain exposure by submitting photos and pictures to Flikr.
  66. Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
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  67. Make sure it’s easy for your users to subscribe to your RSS feed.
  68. Create a “lense” for your site on Squidoo
  69. Ask friends, colleagues and associates to “Favourite” your blog on Technorati.
  70. You can add a Bulletin to your MySpace account promoting your site that all your MySpace Friends will see.
  71. Response to your customer’s emails promptly, even if it is with a simply auto-responder. No one likes to wait 3 or 4 days for an acknowledgement of their contact with you.
  72. Get a professional Copywriter to give your site a once over. If you are on a tight budget, limit to the just the homepage.
  73. Make a list, “Top 10″s work well. Update it regularly to give your visitors a reason to return.
  74. What did you learn today? Tell other people and they might learn something too.
  75. Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic.
  76. Deep link directories are an excellent way to promote inner pages of your site.
  77. Meta tags might carry less weight than previously, but you should still have them on every page.
  78. Ask your Gran for feedback on your site. Never ignore the silver surfers.
  79. Include a “Add to your Technorati favourites” button on your site.
  80. Google Analytics is free and will tell you all you need to know about who’s visiting your site.
  81. Search engines will find you. Don’t pay money for your site to be “submitted”.
  82. Don’t be afraid to link to other sites, especially if they are relevant and to highly respected sites.
  83. Keep It Simple Stupid: use CSS to control layout, style and colours and use HTML text rather than graphics to represent text.
  84. Validate your HTML and CSS. It’ll help ensure your site displays well in all browsers.
  85. Small pages sizes and optimised graphics will give your site a snappy feel and won’t require users to wait around for it to load.
  86. If you plan to submit your site to lots of directory or article sites - create an email especially for this. Delete it when you’re finished to avoid spam.
  87. “Link baiting” means writing some killer content that people will want to link to. Like a “101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence” list!
  88. If your chosen field is technology related then write a “whitepaper”. That’s a posh name for an article.
  89. Google receives roughly 50% of all search requests, Yahoo 25% and MSN just 10%. That’s a good rule of thumb as to how much emphasis to put on each.
  90. Make sure you have a robots.txt file in the root of your Web site. You can use this to control search engines, but if nothing else it’ll reduce the number of 404 errors in your Weblogs.
  91. Free online games, a forum or chatrooms will give your users a reason to come back to your site.
  92. Ebooks with re-seller rights make an excellent “free gift” for your site.
  93. Upload your product feed to Froogle. It’s FREE!
  94. This is an excellent list of Top 25 Social Bookmarking Sites
  95. Search out unanswered questions on Yahoo! Answers and add your site as the “Source”.
  96. PageRank is vanity, ranking is sanity.
  97. Yahoo are catching up with Google with an excellent set of webmaster tools called Site Explorer.
  98. Don’t buy traffic. It’s un-targeted and won’t convert.
  99. Pay Per Click advertising gets you fast results - and if it’s handled well can be very profitable.
  100. Upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.
  101. And that’s it!
This isn't my list, I plagiarised it with permission from http://searchengineoptimisation.yourspaced.com/
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whew! thats a biggie. I tried myspace, only problem there is you get these weirdos sending messages saying how they would really like a meaningful relationship sostopped using it lol! are they sure its not just really a dating agency
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That might have been because of the pics of Brad Pitt that you posted! They probably got confused and thought that's who's profile it was!
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I've already done many of the suggestions on this list, but I'm struggling with one of them. Would someone like to volunteer to help me cross No.29 off the list?
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Wanna pay for the required op first
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Do you mean an op on you or on me?
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If it's on you, can we have before and after shots please?

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Old 29-09-2007, 02:18 PM
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Now that really would be a way to increase traffic to your site. "Have sex change op and post before and after pics on site." I might have to add that to the above list as No. 102
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Go ahead and break new ground - the guaranteed lightning way to reach No. 1 on Google.

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Some how I doubt I'd be breaking new ground. I'm sure if you searched for it you'd find people who've already gone down that path and posted pics.

You'd have to do something a lot more extreme than that to break new ground on the net. Quite what would be considered as breaking new ground on the net, I shudder to think.
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I've already done many of the suggestions on this list, but I'm struggling with one of them. Would someone like to volunteer to help me cross No.29 off the list?
I suggested that approach on Tazbar only I ended up being told off by one upset big breasted lady
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I've read the steps wow that's a biggie I also have tried alot of them. Any suggestions on my site? Guess I need incoming links any suggestions?

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Lol, the original post was at http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/fo...ad.php?t=32162, looks like its been replicated throughout the web
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As stated in the OP, this is the source. Even the post you linked to, links back to this source.

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Feel free to plagirise this list to your own ends, but please link back to (I’m no) Search Engine Optimisation Expert if you do.
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Ask bloggers to write about your site or product - in return for a link of course.
i haven't tried it but as a blogger, i want to try it out
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will many bloggers actually write about your product or site in return for a link i see it as highly unliklely
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will many bloggers actually write about your product or site in return for a link i see it as highly unliklely
It happens all the time. If you have a high traffic or high a PR site, they'll fall over themselves to get you to place a home page link back to them. If you have neither the traffic nor the PR, then you're likely to need something unique for them to write about to interest them.
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