How to promote your website - SEO and SEM

New website on first page of Google

In this video I talk about getting a new website to the top of Google within 24 hours. (or at least a direct link to your website)

Two sites I discuss in this video:
http://www.digg.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com

Web 2.0 trends for 2008

In the video I mention the top five trends for Web 2.0 in 2008 this information was in an article from Performance Communications Group out of Chicago)

1. Smart Banner ads
2. Products promoted by Social Network Members
3. Single-purpose marketing applications
4. New Media becomes mainstream
5. Companies utilize RSS and video web services

Here are some other sites I mentioned:
Facebook
MySpace

If you are interested in more information or just have questions about ways to market your website please email me at nate@helpmepromotemysite.com

Twitter is a very easy to use social media website, that can provide quality SEO if used properly. It is super easy to send a message of “what your doing now” to twitter. You can text message it from your phone, send a message from almost any popular Instant Message service like AIM, create widgets on your blog, or just by going directly to twitter.com.

I am still a noob at this twitter stuff, but it’s fun and very easy to use. Check me out on Twitter here.

My favorite method to post to it is by using AIM, since I am always logged in.

Facebook ads can be much more “targeted” to the demographic that you are looking for. For instance you could target females ages 20-30, or even more specific things like females that like a certain sport or activity or have a specific interest. I have been using PPC (pay per click) type advertising on google and yahoo search engines for quite some time now. But, they do not offer this type of targeted demographics. So, if you know your target audience, and I would assume you do. You may find your money well spent advertising on FaceBook. I just hope that Google and other Search engines figure out how to do this type of targeted marketing in the near future. I assume they are already working on it.

Video has become one of the fastest methods to improve SEO (search engine optimization). Here are a few tips to help you make the most of your video.

Five tips in using Video as Search Engine Optimization:

1.) Upload the video to YouTube
2.) Choose one or two key word phrases in your title on YouTube
3.) In the description use more key phrases and be sure to link to your website
4.) Display the YouTube video on your hompage or one of your primary pages
5.) If you have your own blog make a post with the YouTube video in it using the same or similar key phrases that are in the description of your YouTube video

Here are the top 50 social sites according to Website Magazine’s November 2007 Issue:
(these web rankings are based on Google PR, Ranking.com, Quantcast.com, and Alexa.com)

backflip.com
blinkbits.com
blinklist.com
bloghop.com
blogmarks.net
blogmemes.net
blogpulse.com
bluedot.us
citeulike.org
clipmarks.com
digg.com
diigo.com
esnips.com
furl.net
gather.com
gravee.com
ikeepbookmarks.com
kaboodle.com
kinja.com
kuro5hin.org
lifelogger.com
linkagogo.com
linkroll.com
listible.com
markaboo.com
meneame.net
millionsogames.com
mister-wong.de
myhq.com
netvouz.com
newsvine.com
nowpublic.com
onlywire.com
popurls.com
rawsugar.com
reddit.com
rojo.com
rollyo.com
shadows.com
shoutwire.com
simpy.com
spurl.net
squidoo.com
stumbleupon.com
stylefeeder.com
stylehive.com
tailrank.com
technorati.com
wists.com
zaadz.com

See more rankings, additional articles and key profiles here:
www.websitemagazine.com/digital

This continues the list in my last post below. If any of these work well for you in your quest for website promotion and Search Engine Optimization please email me or leave a comment. Thanks!!

http://bizprenur.com
http://squidoo.com
http://clipmarks.com

If you have not been to any of the web 2.0 sites you should check them out. They are a great way to increase your rankings with search engines like google. Below are a few of the sites that are free to sign up on and you can write comments and links to your site with:

http://twitter.com/
http://del.icio.us/
http://technorati.com
http://digg.com
http://stumbleupon.com

I will post some more later.

It is so easy to create a blog on your own. You can do it even if you have little or no knowledge about web site design or website hosting. Let me walk you through a few simple steps on how to make one using blogger

1. ) Go to Blogger.com

2. ) Create the name of your blog and walk through a very simple and free setup

3. ) Begin blogging.

… wow, that sounds too easy. Well, it is JUST that easy. Don’t wait another minute, if you don’t have a blog you need to go find out what it is all about. It is a great way to talk about a website you may already have and help promote it.

You can advertise with a free banner ad at: http://a.chris24.ca/showthread.php?tid=36

Not sure how long this offer will be free but take advantage of it while it lasts.