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mjames posted this at 22:51—29th January 2002.
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I've never spent a penny on advertising and my site gets over 15,000 impressions a week now. How about you share your experiences? I personally don't see the value in sites like Overture unless you are a large company with cash to spend or an eccomerce site. The payoff simply isn't great enough for content sites.
Marc James - marc@sports-central.org
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fairhousing posted this at 05:27—30th January 2002.
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i've paid for ads (traffic) from a few sources (clicktrade, overture, google, and some others). however, i haven't found the magic touch (cost effecient traffic).
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raine posted this at 08:50—25th February 2002.
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Well, I get roughly 3 million page views a month, and honestly the best way seems to be CONTENT. If you have quality content, they will come! That's the simple truth. I don't think buying traffic really works, as more often than not, these people are misdirected to your site...
mjames posted this at 21:51—26th February 2002.
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I disagree here. When you buy traffic, it is usually highly targeted as your ad only shows up on searches related to your site. That way, you will rarely get people looking for dating advice on a car site...
Marc James - marc@sports-central.org
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AdamB posted this at 00:13—1st March 2002.
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Try a free approach like [url deleted]. With a database of users that surf sites daily. You can ad your site to the rotation for free at no cost ever and no obligation to upgrade.
THEN and only then, if you like the traffic, you can just buy hits.
gdesigns posted this at 23:56—24th March 2002.
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How do you get trafic? I get about 5 views a week! How do I increase this trafic for free? Thanks!
Suzanne posted this at 02:20—25th March 2002.
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CONTENT. CONTENT. CONTENT.
And reciprocal links.
But mostly CONTENT.
gdesigns posted this at 16:27—27th March 2002.
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Content? What do you mean? Help me! Thank you!!
openmind posted this at 17:19—27th March 2002.
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Content is basically your body text. Try, without overdoing it, to include your keywords in phrases and sentences as much as possible. You will then find that engines like Google love you long time!
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Suzanne posted this at 00:02—31st March 2002.
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Content is the meaning, the text, the illustrations, the product, the information on a site. The guts of it. The reason it exists.
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Megan posted this at 14:48—1st April 2002.
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Right - if you have good content it's much easier to get visitors.
Sean - with a site like yours you might want to try advertising locally. Get some business cards printed and hand them out to everyone you know. Get listed in local directories both online and off, things like that. There is *a lot* of competition in the web design business online so it might be easier to find potential visitors if you define a niche for yourself. Remember that 10 visits from people who may be interested in hiring you is better than 100 visits from people who wouldn't be.
Megan
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SWD posted this at 20:24—2nd April 2002.
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content is the key!
absix posted this at 22:45—11th April 2002.
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Jeee, mjames... you should be a millionaire? Are you? How can I possible earn the half of your impressions with my site... crap like http://yesfree.host.sk ?
Any suggestions about getting 2-3k visitors daily to my site? Don't ask why.. I like to be seen..
Wil posted this at 13:45—12th April 2002.
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Try reciprocal links.
There are a million similar sites to yours out there. Get linking with them, exchange banners, buttons and links. That's what most of your competitions do - join 'em!
- wil
absix posted this at 13:57—12th April 2002.
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Thank you.
Yes, I am linking sites, but there are so unfair webmasters... Anyone here interested in linking?
mjames posted this at 13:42—13th April 2002.
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A lot of the traffic comes from my content pages and message boards. Your site doesn't have any "beef" to it; just freebie links. People are likely visiting and leaving. It's hard to have a high page view to unique visitor rate when your site doesn't have a lot of things to offer.
Marc James - marc@sports-central.org
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absix posted this at 17:37—14th April 2002.
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Ahh, I should write crap on messages boards? I can't do this. First of all, my english is weak... very weak. Second, I am a newbie, people will only laugh at my posts. This idea won't work
Thanks for advice anyway
Jaiem posted this at 04:18—18th April 2002.
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Mesage boards are good but are very time consuming. Plus you need a thick skin. Sooner or later someone is going to attack what you say.
Jaiem
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decoder posted this at 00:24—29th April 2002.
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as mjames and crew says, 'content is king'
put up something people want and they will come to your site. My site dosent look that nice (designed by me with front page) and has been up for barely over 2 weeks with a tad bit of usenet promotion and i'm getting roughly 3000 unique visitors a day.
http://www.decodernews.com
kryton posted this at 01:20—8th May 2002.
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linking is just as important as content, but you must link from similar content.
pearhost posted this at 06:39—17th May 2002.
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Banner Exchange and Google's AdWords is very effective.
thegetupkids posted this at 15:19—10th June 2002.
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Here are my suggestions.
Get on as many search engines as possible. There is only so much you can do to up your ranking on sites like yahoo, so you will want to consider pay per click search engines. I suggest, overture, findwhat, ah-ha, and kanoodle. Look for really good deals on banners, Keyword targeted work really well. If you have some marketing money to spend, this isnt a bad way to go about it.
Alex