pamlindsay
01-17-2006, 03:42 PM
There is one common theme among those who do not generate sales and develop a successful website, "Lack of Marketing".
We have customers come to us after only a few weeks and wonder why they have not generated any sales. We ask them if they have done any marketing to get their site noticed and most of the time they haven't really done anything. Building a successful site takes alot of time and effort. You cannot get a site people trust in just a few months. It takes time to get the word out from customers that you are reliable and trustworthy. Most people give up before the even get started. Of course you also must be willing to invest some money.
If the design looks professional, you are willing to give it the time it takes to build a successful site, then you need to learn marketing.
Make sure your site is optimized for search engines by having your meta tags include all of your most important keywords. Make sure the title tag has important keywords as well. Then when this is READY, (don't submit until your site is ready) submit your site to the search engines. Do this for free as there are many ways to do this for free.
You can use the FREE service at the link below:
http://www.submitexpress.com/
Self Promotion.com is a great site to use to learn about promotion and will even submit to search engines automatically for you if you donate to the site:
http://selfpromotion.com/
To get traffic quickly, you need to start by using Pay Per click search engines such as Google Adwords and Overture.com (Yahoo search marketing). Decide on keywords and key phrases that people will use to find your site such as baby slings etc...(Start out by ONLY BIDDING the lowest allowable bids on keywords) DO NOT BID THE SUGGESTED bid that Google or Overture suggests. Start small and see how much traffic you can generate and gradually increase your bids if you have to.
Hope this helps!
Pam
PM me if you need help.
We have customers come to us after only a few weeks and wonder why they have not generated any sales. We ask them if they have done any marketing to get their site noticed and most of the time they haven't really done anything. Building a successful site takes alot of time and effort. You cannot get a site people trust in just a few months. It takes time to get the word out from customers that you are reliable and trustworthy. Most people give up before the even get started. Of course you also must be willing to invest some money.
If the design looks professional, you are willing to give it the time it takes to build a successful site, then you need to learn marketing.
Make sure your site is optimized for search engines by having your meta tags include all of your most important keywords. Make sure the title tag has important keywords as well. Then when this is READY, (don't submit until your site is ready) submit your site to the search engines. Do this for free as there are many ways to do this for free.
You can use the FREE service at the link below:
http://www.submitexpress.com/
Self Promotion.com is a great site to use to learn about promotion and will even submit to search engines automatically for you if you donate to the site:
http://selfpromotion.com/
To get traffic quickly, you need to start by using Pay Per click search engines such as Google Adwords and Overture.com (Yahoo search marketing). Decide on keywords and key phrases that people will use to find your site such as baby slings etc...(Start out by ONLY BIDDING the lowest allowable bids on keywords) DO NOT BID THE SUGGESTED bid that Google or Overture suggests. Start small and see how much traffic you can generate and gradually increase your bids if you have to.
Hope this helps!
Pam
PM me if you need help.