Promoting Website - Project Niche Domination
O.K folks, the baby site is now live and ready to make money, (almost). I say almost because as a preference it is considered a good idea by many not to place adverts on your site straight away. By keeping your site ad free for say 3 weeks you will find it easier to get incoming links and your site will not look as though it is made purely for Adsense. So far I have used Super Apprentice to do the following: (you can do this manually if you are not a member).
Submit an article to major article directories including EzineArticles and GoArticles. Do not be tempted to use auto submit software that submits the same article to hundreds of directories. Not only will you have duplicate content all over the web but you could gain links from sites that search engines consider spammy and this could count against you.
I have also submitted my site to many of the quality link directories, the same rule as above applies here.
In a few days, (as soon as the writer has completed them) I will be submitting my blog posts using the Super Apprentice blog network. If you aren’t a member of any blog network this can be tricky but not impossible. Just search on Google for “blog: your topic“. Now you can look through blogs that allow you to post and add a link within it. Another word of warning here. Some blogs use the “rel=no follow” rule which means that you will not be credited with any link power from that blog and it will not help you rank in search engines. In my opinion this is one of the most difficult parts of website promotion to fulfill unless you are a member of a service that gives you access to blogs. Unfortunately these services don’t come cheap which is why Super Apprentice is becoming so popular. The cheap stand-alone service I have seen is $97 and the most expensive is $297. That’s a lot of money on one service if your just starting out.
Now we can’t expect results straight away. We should start getting a few hits in 2-4 weeks but it is likely to be around 3 months before we start seeing a steady stream of traffic and some noticable income to our site. Once my sites have reached this stage I like to forget about them for a while and concentrate either on further promotion or creating more sites, in this case on a similar theme. You could search for Ebooks or content for Ebooks that allow you resell rights so you can begin to dominate your niche. You can also start researching more keywords that will enable you to create your next site.
So I’ll close this chapter for the time being and report results as soon as I have them. But please keep coming back because this is only the tip of the iceberg.
