101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence

[mattk]

I like making lists - and I like promoting Web sites. So it was an obvious thing to do to create a list of ways to improve and promote a Web site and online presence. Some are obvious, some are bizarre. Some are old, some are new. Many are well know techniques, some are my own personal rambling. Nothing is a statement of fact, merely my own opinion.


If you're launching a new site, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to share sites like Digg (http://www.digg.com/), Reddit (http://reddit.com/) and Now Public (http://www.nowpublic.com/).
Create a Yahoo Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/) in the niche your site sits.
Create a MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/) account and use it to publisise your site.
Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) and if you're really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
Create a Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/) account and "claim" your blog.
Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here (http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=seo-friendly-list.php).
Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree (http://www.gumtree.com/).
Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds.
Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner (http://www.feedburner.com/), Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com), Feedboy (http://www.feedboy.com/), Jordomedia (http://www.jordomedia.com/), FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=195250)
Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
Sign up to StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com) and get your friends to Stumble your site.
Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.
Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here (http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm) for more info.
Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.
Tell your friends about your site. It's free advertising init.
Speel cheek ur stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
Don't worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.
Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
Advertise your site on Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.org). It's free, relevant and localised.
Do NOT use frames.
Submit your site to DMOZ.org (http://dmoz.org/). It may take time, but it's worth it.
Create an XML sitemap (http:/www.xml-sitemaps.com/) of your site and submit it to Google (http://www.google.com).
Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
Ask a large breasted lady to wear one too.
Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you're a publish, make some cash!
On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
Send out a newsletter!
Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
Don't pay people to submit your site to search engines. It's a waste of money.
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/) and Google Video (http://video.google.com) are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.
Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add "As Seen on TV" to your site!
Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.
Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it's not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.
Learn about CSS. It's the new HTML.
Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.
Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid www.yourdomain.com/pgInfoPages.cfm?cx=50799399822B393BBF95289295A3A10 A4FD4F64E511ACB0E020C9048CFE3AEDAF8DD9D
If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a "Skip Intro" link.
Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.
Donate money to a charity and most will place a link on their site back to you.

[mattk]

And breath:


Abide to W3C standards (http://www.w3.org/) - it will help your site in the long term.
Your local community sports teams offer cheap, but highly effective sponsorship opportunities.
Publisise your site on related forums - but don't spam!
Ask bloggers to write about your site or product - in return for a link of course.
Offer a competition related to something in the news - so football around the time of the World Cup etc.
Add a "Tell a Friend" function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.
Have a Sitemap on your site to allow users to navigate around quickly and to aid the search engines.
Have a nice keyword rich title at the top of each of your pages. Users and search engines both like descriptive titles.
Include a Feedburner button on your site so people can easily subscribe to your feed.
If you use PPC then create a landing page for each of your AdWords - it'll boost your conversations no end.
Appear on Dragon's Den.
Create a Press section on your site where can you store all your press releases, logos and banners.
Add a link to your site from within your eBay profile.
Ask your friends to give you honest feedback on your site.
The best way to find someone to do any kind of work on your site is through personal recommendation.
Gain exposure by submitting photos and pictures to Flikr (http://www.flickr.com/).
Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
Make sure it's easy for your users to subscribe to your RSS feed.
Create a "lense" for your site on Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com)
Ask friends, collegues and associates to "Favourite" your blog on Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/).
You can add a Bulletin to your MySpace account promoting your site that all your MySpace Friends will see.
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.
Get a professional Copywriter to give your site a once over. If you are on a tight budget, limit to the just the homepage.
Make a list, "Top 10"s work well. Update it regularly to give your visitors a reason to return.
What did you learn today? Tell other people and they might learn something too.
Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) will bring you a mass of traffic.
Deep link directories are an excellent way to promote inner pages of your site.
Meta tags might carry less weight than previously, but you should still have them on every page.
Ask your Gran for feedback on your site. Never ignore the silver surfers.
Include a "Add to your Technorati favourites" button on your site.
Google Analytics is free and will tell you all you need to know about who's visiting your site.
Search engines will find you. Don't pay money for your site to be "submitted".
Don't be afraid to link to other sites, especially if they are relevant and to highly respected sites.
Keep It Simple Stupid: use CSS to control layout, style and colours and use HTML text rather than graphics to represent text.
Validate (http://validator.w3.org/) your HTML and CSS. It'll help ensure your site displays well in all browsers.
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.
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.
"Link baiting" means writing some killer content that people will want to link to. Like a "101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence" list!
If your chosen field is technology related then write a "whitepaper". That's a posh name for an article.
Google (http://www.google.com) receives roughly 50% of all search requests, Yahoo 25% and MSN just 10%. That's a good rule of thumb as to how much emphisis to put on each.
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.
Free online games, a forum or chatrooms will give your users a reason to come back to your site.
Ebooks with re-seller rights make an excellent "free gift" for your site.
Upload your product feed to Froogle (http://www.froogle.com). It's FREE!
This is an excellent list of Top 25 Social Bookmarking Sites (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=268904)
Search out unanswered questions on Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/) and add your site as the "Source".
PageRank is vanity, ranking is sanity.
Yahoo are catching up with Google with an excellent set of webmaster tools called Site Explorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/).
Don't buy traffic. It's un-targetted and won't convert.
Pay Per Click advertising gets you fast results - and if it's handled well can be very profitable.
Upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.
And that's it!


I was inspired to write this by superflytrainer (http://www.imutopia.com/) who posted an excellent 101 ways to get more traffic (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=246573) thread on DP. Alot of the tips have been posted on various forums and blogs, so I make no claim that they are all my own. I have simply tried to collate them into a list and expand where possible. Feel free to plagirise this list to your own ends, but please link back to (I'm no) Search Engine Optimisation Expert (http://searchengineoptimisation.yourspaced.com) if you do.

I've tried to be as accurate as possible with my links, but feel free to point out any glaring ommisions!

[estwig]

Thats Brilliant, Thankyou Matt.

You are gonna keep me busy for a while there, will pick the bits that apply to us and go for it, though maybe not all at once :)

[Comspec]

I like no 29 on page 1 - gonna try that first :)

[An Oasis]

I like no 29 on page 1 - gonna try that first :)

LOL didn't spot that one, should cause quite a stir on the forums.:p

[CarolineICE]

Hi,

What a great post. With no experience I have no idea what you are talking about but as our website is due to go live soon (when we have finished with the typos) we will be going through your tips and badgering our website designer and host.

Thanks,

Caroline

(incidentally my business partner might be able to help out with no 29:D )

[Coding Monkey]

Regarding Del.icio.us, aren't all of the links nofollow, or is it only some of them?

[RayB]

Hi Matt,

That is the very best post I have ever read on a forum -thank you! Must have taken you ages!

It's informative, but funny too!

So, I'm off to do all that you say - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all - see you in 2008 :D

[ozskins]

what a great post just having a big think on slowly shifting our business model to a more on line basis, again dont understand it all but will be trying, ps any ideas how long this may all take?

[sandpetra]

An excellent list with some good points:)

[netidme]

thanks, an excellent selection of tips.
Re. page rank - I've heard that a higher page rank might mean that google will crawl your site more frequently - therefore if you add frequent keyword rich content, it can help your ranking? On that basis, maybe page rank does help your ranking?

[mattk]

Thanks to everyone for their feedback on this.

I am currently working on an eBook, which expands on each of these ideas. If anyone has actually tried out any of the tips I would be very grateful if they could write a one or two paragragh case study of what they did and I will include it in the eBook. Full credit will of course be given, so it's a good opportunity to gain some exposure!

[Exclusively You!]

Not only is the list very good matt it is a very clever platform on which to sell your ebook, I like it, very well thought out.

Regards

Craig.

[BuyCleverStuff]

What a great list, good to see all the tips on one page.

Now, just need to find the time to do them.

Jon

[DotNetWebs]

What a great list, good to see all the tips on one page.

Now, just need to find the time to do them.

Jon

It is a great post from mattk. Well done for reviving it.

I think this post should be a sticky.

Regards

Dotty

[spreadsheetsdirect]

I bet it used to be far easier to setup a business before the internet.

[BuyCleverStuff]

It is a great post from mattk. Well done for reviving it.

I think this post should be a sticky.

Regards

Dotty

a must read for all Internet businesses, plus it help you understand when a good SEO company should do for you.

Jon

[BuyCleverStuff]

I bet it used to be far easier to setup a business before the internet.

In one way yes, but just think of all the home/small businesses which have a great looking site and provide a great service, but because they can't afford high street shops or glossy catalogues been produced would be otherwise dead.

Jon

[mattk]

Thanks to everyone for their kind words. The article is now in it's five hundreth amendment, the link is still:

101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence (http://searchengineoptimisation.yourspaced.com/2007/03/26/101-tips-to-improve-your-web-presence/)

[asonda]

Number 29 on the first list.......give this one a go

[Comspec]

Matt

Great article - I still send a link to people for it since you posted it the first time.

Mark

[oreviews]

Great!! thanks a lot, they are very useful to improve my web.

[mattk]

Wow! Look at me, I'm all sticky (in a good way).

[cjd]

yikes - we have stickies!

[Aspect Investments]

Is this your list Matt? ive seen this on a few sites.

[Cool Photography]

Great ideas - lots to think about !!!

Cheers

Alexei

[mattk]

Yes, I wrote it myself and originally posted it on DigitalPoint and my blog (http://searchengineoptimisation.yourspaced.com/). I've seen it in lots of places, some with credit, some without!

[Aspect Investments]

Good work Matt. :)

[SillyJokes]

OK, I'm going to try and do one of these a day for My Favourite Animals and see how the traffic goes. At the moment it is standing at about 10 visitors a day since it is so new it still has that cheesy vernix all over it at the moment.

[DarrenC]

I have just launched a new site, so I will be looking through this list for some ideas for increasing traffic.

Thanks! :)

[fridayteam]

I keep coming back to find the link for this. Thanks Mattk.

[quikshop]

And breath:

Appear on Dragon's Den.
That's more like business suicide than good marketing :p

[Fuzzy]

OMG I'm still laughing at some!! Thanks for that!

[Spiderden]

[/list]That's more like business suicide than good marketing :p
Tell that to Ling Valentine!

[Just_a_bloke]

That's more like business suicide than good marketingTell that to Ling Valentine!

There was some one in one of the broad sheet papers the other day who went on Dragons Den and got slated. Anyway he went somewhere else for funding and got twice as much as what he was asking on DD without any hassle. Consequently the guy's idea took off big time, and now he's worth x millions.

[quikshop]

There was some one in one of the broad sheet papers the other day who went on Dragons Den and got slated. Anyway he went somewhere else for funding and got twice as much as what he was asking on DD without any hassle. Consequently the guy's idea took off big time, and now he's worth x millions.

I listened with interest to a US entrepreneur at our local Run the Gauntlet fund-raising competition as he told the audience a story about raising funding for his first business. He ended up presenting to 36 sets of venture capitalists and got 35 NOs before the last one said yes and gave his business the money... needless to say he became very wealthy and had a very successful business :rolleyes:

[nichep]

I'm launching my website next week...so this will keep me busy over the weekend.

[She Says]

That is brilliant!
Particularly love:

Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
Ask a large breasted lady to wear one too.



:D

[SillyJokes]

That is brilliant!
Particularly love:


:D

I can do both of these at the same time :rolleyes:

[NSGuru]

Great work mattk,

Does point 29 come from experience or an over active imagination :p

[tomfrederick]

Nice information, it is crucial for me.

Thanks.

[Annabelle]

Saw something like that on digg.com - probably not only people from this forum liked it ;)

[graspit]

useful tips

[MrKing]

Thanks for the tips guys

I have tried / done a lot of them but not all

Thanks again

[BeautyScientist]

I started working through the list yesterday, so I have just signed up with Digg. I have tracked down a couple of relevant articles on Digg and commented on them. It is a bit of a confusing website - I will update people if I get any traffic from it.

[BeautyScientist]

Okay signed up to Digg and I have made a couple of comments on relevant threads. I will see it it generates any traffic. I think I will leave the other sites suggested on point 1 for now. Next point is to create a Yahoo group. I belong to BT Yahoo so I guess that I am able to do this. I just need to work out how.

[zhaira]

Advertise your site on Craiglist. It's free, relevant and localised. Not only craiglist but other free classified ads on which you can advertise or promote your site including Gumtree , Adoos, MSN Live Expo and Yahoo Classified Ads.

[BeautyScientist]

Well Monday was a high for the last month on my site following signing up for Digg on Saturday and spending a couple of hours finding relevant content to comment on. However that only took my traffic up to 8 from an average of 5, so it isn't a quick fix.

I will carry on working down the list.

[freelancer]

Well Monday was a high for the last month on my site following signing up for Digg on Saturday and spending a couple of hours finding relevant content to comment on. However that only took my traffic up to 8 from an average of 5, so it isn't a quick fix.

I will carry on working down the list.

If you add an article, and it gets dugg, thats when yo get some serious traffic. If you make it onto the front page, most websites will crash, due to the sheer demand.

Infact, it happens so much, DIgg has to cache a site before adding it.

If you need me to digg something, pm me ;)

[Mike.LA]

Excellent post! Kudos to you Mattk! =)

[francine embroidery]

Good help.

[mattk]

Thanks to everyone for their comments and encouragement!

The original article has been updated several times since I originally posted it here. The link is 101 Tips To Improve Your Web Presence (http://searchengineoptimisation.yourspaced.com/2007/03/26/101-tips-to-improve-your-web-presence/) and you can Digg it here (http://digg.com/design/100_Ways_to_increase_a_site_s_web_presence)

[jimmy555]

Very good article , i think U have covered almost all possible areas of SEO.:)

[jamie1183]

I thought I had covered most things but now I realise theres so many more things to do, thanks for that looks like i'm gonna be busy

[duongo]

Excellent post, thanks very much Matt

duongo
MyRedPacket (http://www.myredpacket.co.uk) UK- Unique gifts and gadget shop

[Jane Redfern Jones]

These tips are soooo useful. There are so many ways to promote a business online and I realise now that I've only been looking at the tip of the iceberg. Thank-you for these - I will certainly be making use of some of these tips shortly!

[Alcsl]

Thanks Matt, superb post - loads of really useful bits in there that will no doubt keep us busy for a while!

Al

[thefashionhut]

Excellent article. Thank you.

[Fuzzy]

Thanks to everyone for their comments and encouragement!

The original article has been updated several times since I originally posted it here. The link is 101 Tips To Improve Your Web Presence (http://searchengineoptimisation.yourspaced.com/2007/03/26/101-tips-to-improve-your-web-presence/) and you can Digg it here (http://digg.com/design/100_Ways_to_increase_a_site_s_web_presence)
Pllleeeaassee don't tell em you have added more :eek:, I'm still working my way through the last lot!!:D You should write a book, it's fab!;)

[imports_exports]

Tips given for making of a good site are excellent. If a site has already been made does it require that we have to submit our details to search engine. If the same is done then is it the inner pages are also required to be submitted or is it that they automatically crawled by search engine.
Please let me know.

[Spiderden]

There's no need to submit your site to a search engine. A few well placed links will get your site indexed soon enough. If you do submit your site manually, then you only need to submit the domain and the rest of the site will be crawled.

[thefashionhut]

There's no need to submit your site to a search engine. A few well placed links will get your site indexed soon enough. If you do submit your site manually, then you only need to submit the domain and the rest of the site will be crawled.

Thank you for that.

[Minuteman Press]

It's been said before - but superb post.

[Bradford-web-Design]

Thats amazing thank you so much for that saved me hours of research

[beadell]

Cheers Matt

Working my way through !!! Excellent

[maxine]

Thanks Matt and thanks for bumping this Beadell or I would have missed it! :)

[alphaseocompany]

some great tips there will endeavour to link into them.

[eweshop]

Great post will try all of these, it is really hard when you are new to know where to start SEO.

[fonzee666]

Whoop! this is great, ive printed her glued it to the wall and am working through it as I write, however im also looking out the window for a lady to wear my Tshirt :-)

thanks

[AndysWeb]

Thank you ever so much for taking the time and trouble to right this!

Andy

[peacemeister45]

Probably the most helpful thread on this forum! thank you

[hzzj]

You are gonna keep me busy for a while there, will pick the bits that apply to us and go for it, though maybe not all at once

[chathura]

Good job Mattk. It is very interesting and helpful to improve our web presence. Keep posting good post like this in future. Thanks.

[jigolo]

This is a great list.. Thank you for you 101 tips...

[Sue Lawrence]

Hi,

Is a BOTW.org listing good for SEO?

Thanks,

Sue

[vinyl-grafix]

A real eye opener. Thanks!

[Openeye]

Nice list - which im sure ill refer back to.

[bigears]

Great post, started at number 1, got bored at number 2, jumped straight to number 29, and now distracted.........

[gomenow]

Thanks ,it is very good for me.

[bridgat]

Great. Thank you!

[DreamLifestyle]

Nice tips - thanks.

[Dance teacher]

I read this yesterday and completely forgot what I was doing in the first place! There's some excellent tips in the list and some of the tools have helped me already.

Thanks x

[macman]

I downloaded this as an ebook about a month ago
implemented quite a few of the tips and my traffic did increase quite dramaticaly and i got a couple of new users on my forum based football game as a result.

I think the main ones with regard to SEO for me were creating the blogs and bookmarks.

my main keyword i want to get found on is "Football pools" and i think im on google page 49-51 if you specify pages from the UK previuosly i was nowhere so its a start.

Good luck it can be be laong way to the top.

[babytreasuretrove]

thanks for the tips, really useful, going to get started on them now!

[Liam1981]

some really useful tips... thank you!

I'd be grateful if you could explain the tip - "PageRank is vanity, ranking is sanity". Aren't pagerank and your ranking inextricably linked?

[Pmax]

Greatest post! Free and effective! i have added the page to my favorites! Thank you so much for sharing!

[hairycornflakes]

excellent tips, iv just emailed my local newspaper asking if they would do a piece on me, not something I would have though of!

[Bathead]

I think this is a great post and about time I got round to actually saying thank you.

Mick

[bobgentry]

I have implemented a lot of these recommendations and doing a comparison between my site and other sites that are beating me in the Google rankings my site seems far superior. However they are above me with far less backings and less serps optimisation. So what am I doing wrong?

[The Movie Booth]

Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here.



Hi,

I'm just working through this excellent guide, but was just wondering what peoples thoughts were on the the submission to these kind of directories?

[pete_m]

some really useful tips... thank you!

I'd be grateful if you could explain the tip - "PageRank is vanity, ranking is sanity". Aren't pagerank and your ranking inextricably linked?

Not really. Pagerank is only one of *many* factors that Google looks at when ranking web pages for a particular search term. Important factors include:
- link text on links pointing at that page
- page title
- page content
as well as many others. Having a page with high PageRank is all very nice, but unless the page is targeted at the search term in question, then that PR is largely irrelevant.

[Keepsmilin]

Good stuff!!! Thanks for great tips.

Cheers

:)
Ezylet.co.uk

[davcheong]

Thanks for sharing out the tips, and its 101 of them.



Thanks
David Cheong.

[AlwaysInMyHeart]

What a fantastic post!! Thanks :)

[Emcar Vending]

Brilliant post, thanks very much.

I'm already doing a few of them and they are getting me some hits.

The one I think I got badly wrong was


If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add "As Seen on TV" to your site!

"As seen on Crimewatch", didn't quite have the same ring to it.

[barringtonfreight]

I have read this post and starting implementing. Great post, thanks.

This SEO stuff can get to the obsession stage !!

[ginalyn]

hope these tips could help maintain my website

[zhangandma]

WOW~~really very good advice now I just open one blog and still don't know how to promote it. Thank you for the article. I had save it in a word file.

[MrSEO]

Not bad, but you have to understand that all depend on you website topic
But CONTENT and right choosen keywords are essential

[F1SEO]

there are some great tips in there for not just SEO but traffic generation too. Great contribution :)

[Anup Zaver]

Brilliant advice here. Thank you.

[JC1]

hi matt
thanks for you list i am looking to take advantage of any free/cost effective traffic. i have started a yahoo group,can you tell me how people will find it and how this will help me. my site is www.pyramid.com (http://www.pyramid.com).
My group name is www.pyramid.com (http://www.pyramid.com) and ive placed is in the internet section.

[froggy]

That's great information, another place to Advertise your Website is worldfamouswebsites.com, they are very affordable to advertise on their Website as well.

[mickyboy73]

Don't worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*

I like your twist on that quote. Really like the song it's taken from. Here are a few others from the same song by Australian film director Baz Luhrmann, who is best known for two films — "Strictly Ballroom," about competitive dancing, and a 1996 remake of "Romeo and Juliet," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes

1) The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

2) Do one thing every day that scares you.

3) Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

4) Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

5) Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

6) Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

A little off topic but some of those quotes are worth remembering :)

[aaliyahlim]

Wow.. Awesome post you guys, hope to read more post like this in the future.

[Pawan]

Very effective and informative tips, these tips are definitely help in improving traffic on website.

[bubblewrap]

Cheers Matt for this! This is top end info. Will defo look into it to promote my site. Been struggling but these are down-to-earth/not so hard and cheap ways.

Elie aka bubblewrap

[Display Centre Dave]

Fantastic Matt, thanks very much...

[Arleigh]

That's really a great post. Very informative and interesting to read..

[dhoks8207]

Thanks for such a comprehensive list.I have been doing all this for quite some time then also it was knowledgeable.

[klever kloggs]

excellent list, very handy, thanks for taking the time Matt

[Digger1]

Just started using business forums and that's quite an exhaustive list. Nice work...

[DRM - Insite IT]

Excellent list that i think everyone can take something from

[max737]

Found those tips very interesting

Cheers

[McKay Hardwood Flooring]

Great list - have started to work through these tips for my sites and have went from 168 links to over 500 for our main company site in just over 3 weeks. I'm using twitter but not quite worked out howit can benefit our web marketing.
Cheers for post.

[Richb]

Cheers Matt,

Have gone through the top tips loads of time, and there is still more to work on, this will keep me going for a bit!!!

Rich

[perfectprintsonline]

This is a great list - gonna keep me busy for ages trying to promote our website. Thanks :)

[Eagle]

Nice one, thanks. :)

[Scent From Above]

Excellent post. Now to find a suitable candidate for number 29!

[stockdam]

Hi....I've already got a great No. 29.


I wonder if I can rent out some space for anyone who is interested.

[waliarohit]

excellent list thanks

[beegee]

hi
any idea how much would cost to do all this ? i am not a web expert could anyone give me idea ? please
thanx

[mattk]

hi
any idea how much would cost to do all this ? i am not a web expert could anyone give me idea ? please
thanx

Most of it you should be able to do for free - that was kind of the ethos behind the article. All it takes is time and a bit of elbow grease.

[4little1s]

Really good tips and am working my way through them, thanks. I like the 'Ask your Gran' tip....good point !

[mahutchinson]

Does any of this actually work ? I used to submit my web site to a long list of free sites and dmoz on a regular basis and have never had a single piece of work from it. I was never sure how often to resubmit. I did pay Google for a while and got my site at the top of the rankings for like 2 or 3 hours every morning but again it did nothing for me.

[4little1s]

I submitted to Gum Tree and Craigs list and got some interest,

[ash05]

Good List.With some important points

[John jen]

Your tips will make every one to think deeply about the process and help to choose the right paths in the internet marketing that avoid us from internet marketing scams.

[Web Design Company]

Simply superb :D

[vivi8088]

Thanks for sharing. I need this.

[monie]

good info, thanks

[Lynn_O]

Big upto you Mr for sharing your valueable time and experience - many would not!!!

[stanneon]

woah! nice tips dude... let me guess, you got it from experience?... thanks for the very good info..

[doggiestylestore]

Great list, have implemented some of your ideas already, thanks!

[BarryM]

Really helpful stuff - thank you! I've forwarded it to my IT people to get on the case!

[AdvantageDigitalMedia]

Great list have actioned some of them already! Cheers

[Rick F]

WOW! There is great appreciated for this list. Well Done!

I too am going to join the bandwagon and use most of these techniques for my 3 businesses!

After posting on a few forums I can confirm UKBF is the best one of them all.

Everyone keep up the good work!

[allimercy]

I can believe this. This tips are eye opener. I see light in the tunnel now.

Thanks alot

[writestudent]

Great list and gave me some well needed tips in SEO! Thanks!

[firefly22]

Wow This is really helpful.....thank you so much for your input!

[Rain]

One of (if not the) Best i've seen arround thanks, this will no doubt help alot!

[Spock]

You have 'Software Development' repeated many times in your Title Tag for starters - G may think it spammy?

[andrevandenburg]

Thanks for shraring your brilliant article.
A well informative threads that an SEO needs to do

[YooHee]

nice huge list.....

hehehe

but thanks for the list.....

its very informative....:P

[andrevandenburg]

Nice Article.Visit seobookdotcom they have also guides and tips to learn,rank and dominate in SEO

[websitetraffic]

The forum i belong to has implemented these ideas it really does work

[Calibre Designs]

Bookmarked :)

[alphaseocompany]

The forum i belong to has implemented these ideas it really does work
can i ask what forum please

[Andy J]

Nice Job Matt

Would you recommend working through the list from top to bottom or pick out what I think would be best suited ?

[North Wales Inks]

nice list and thank you for sharing the information

[OneSixty]

Good list!, Cheers

[nineseven]

Fantastic article. Exactly what I was looking for.

[digipromo]

thanks for sharing your ideas! they are very helpful!

[wnc1981]

Do all legitimtae suggestions (i.e. not spam, not porn, not viagra) get on DMOZ eventually?

[OldWelshGuy]

Do all legitimtae suggestions (i.e. not spam, not porn, not viagra) get on DMOZ eventually?
No is the siple answer. they can get moved from cat to cat and never get approved.

[realmaverick]

Only problem I see with that list, is that new comers to SEO will follow those 101 pointers and waste their time.

Some use the philosophy that "every little helps" but realistically every little hurts. What I mean by that is, you'd be focusing on points that have little impact. Focus on the few points that have massive impact and you'll achieve far more.

I'm not crapping on your list, it's comprehensive and most of them are valid. But as I say it will send a lot of people chasing their tails.

[niceindustry]

we always want to promote our company website,but can not find the best way, and i got some idea from this article, thanks

[Bri]

am conducting interviews for number 29, please send photo with application

[Maxwelll]

. Unique content is your websites gold mine. Use social bookmark websites, send them your web content ...

[Isabella_Smith]

Amazing, superb, excellent this is just what I want.:cool:

A good post has its own shine.

[colin bruce]

I found some value in this, esp if you are starting out. Good list of resources. The original post in this thread is great.

slideshare.net/lasandra5/bestkept-secrets-to-search-engine-optimization-success-the-art-and-the-science

[garyscreigh]

Top list

didnt know the charity one!

gary s creigh

brandoa. co. uk

[Mariajohn]

Most people err on one particular idea. They think the more links they have, the better their ranking. This can be true - but because of abuses, Google made their service smarter. If your site becomes extremely popular overnight (for example, you submitted your site to a service that lists your web site to thousands of search engines) then you might just get banned. At best, it'll rank poorly on your search terms. Protect the most important online property you have - your URL! Don't foolishly get yourself black listed.
It's really cool information. Great list
Thanks

[Simon-M]

No 29 for me on page 1 but with a twist. I will try and get a ladyboy. Sure to get the tongues wagging. Should this not have been No. 69?

[strattoncraig]

Great list! Going to have a proper read through later...

[freewareupdater101]

I agree to pay per click! but this is somewhat expensive. anyway its SEO job :)

[leetee]

Superb!! Ive been spending weeks building my own SEO tip list. Ive also put my list into practise on my site with rubbish results. I will certainly work through yours and Im sure it will make an improvement!! If only you could have posted this sooner!

[jonman]

Great information for those of us starting up new sites! Thank You


jonmans.com/forum needs a few of these tips to boost it up a bit!

[jack2000]

You are gonna keep me busy for a while there,

[SimplyTopUK]

Great information, just hopes its really easy to do though, lol.:)

[alcohol_finder]

Must say, really good tips here, thanks for the info!!!

[hingis]

thank you very much for this post, it will help me very much..

[brandmantra]

great information thanks for sharing. :)

[click2city]

nice post dear
thank you for lots of information

[outdoorman24]

Create a page on facebook! It's FREE and easy and you can keep people updated by sending them all a message at once.

facebook.com/advertising/?pages

[rajiwebstar]

that is one of the good post ever in UK biz forum thanks matt

[forexblab]

hello there thanks alot for sharing this precious knowledge it is really helpful for those who are wandering regarding promoting their business online. thanks again.

[lordkadda]

very useful info. hope to apply it on my web site

[sara_criss]

wowwwww a bundle of information i got here ..........thanks a lotttttttt .........ill try all in my own site ......hope the result must be good ....anyway thanks again ......

[floralpride]

Thanks for this list. I shall be keeping busy for quite a while.

[TJ Gabriel]

This is great.

Thank you for taking the time to post this.

[ruby.mein]

THank you for the information shared... this greatly helps :)

[LED]

Fantastic post!

[agentyumi]

"Advertise your site on craiglist. It's free, relevant and localised" I'm fond of using this' very helpful yet with no fee. By the way I bookmark this page for my reference. Thanks for the useful post

[nepaltrekking]

very nice list thanks alot

[Marky1]

Hi,
It's a wonderful tips about how to increase the traffic. It has explained almost all the available tips in a very concise manner. Particularly the tips like, submitting articles, writing blogs, submitting URL to the search engines, linking to other related sites, making press releases and classified ads. Its an amazing information in the form of tips.

Thank you...

[Marky1]

Hi,
It's a wonderful tips about how to increase the traffic. It has explained almost all the available tips in a very concise manner. Particularly the tips like, submitting articles, writing blogs, submitting URL to the search engines, linking to other related sites, making press releases and classified ads. Its an amazing information in the form of tips.

Thank you...
----------------------------------
Infinite Income Plan
moneyanyone.com

[target solutions uk ltd]

wow cheers ears lol,

defo one of the best posts on the forum and defo going to keep me busy for a lifetime he he he

cheers

[david_123]

Really writer spent a lot time to write this quality post thanks

[dave1928]

This is a great list and will be looking at doing as many of them for my soon to be new website.

One comment i will make....as this list was done almost 2 years ago, would it be an idea to have a updated list???? as some new ideas must be around and some of the original ones have better alternatives!!

[seomaster1]

Thanks for good information...

[kanchan]

Hi,
Thats Brilliant, Thank you Matt.

[smcolorfull]

thanks a lot. Although I'm a newbie here, but I wil try to learn with this. Haha. Anyway, it's very important to have this kind of helpful advices on the forum. Thanks again.

[bnslauren79]

thanks for tha data. it seems to be more than useful! bye

[harrybusinessmarketing]

Thanks for your useful tips for improving traffic to website.

[jerrymind]

Absolutely brilliant post Matt.

[sheilagard]

Absolutely just what I need, even if I don't understand a lot of it.

Many thanks

Sheila

[bmvproperty.biz]

Very useful, great post











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[weblover50]

Great list buddy thanks for sharing the list.

[WonkanaJohn]

The words "sticky" and "retention" take on a whole new meaning when you use podcasting. We have a client who's just reached 40,000 downloads. You'll be interacting with potential and existing customers in a way that's unique.

[WonkanaJohn]

The words "sticky" and "retention" take on a whole new meaning when you use podcasting. We have a client who's just reached 40,000 downloads. You'll be interacting with potential and existing customers in a way that's wholly unique.

[sunitasaloni]

Thanks that could be very helpful

[ElliotClark]

excellent post, thanks

[ninnythomas]

This list is really helpful to me... I worked in that n found the great results.

[vsl.online]

These are 49 great simple tips indeed.

Let me just add one to make it 50.

50. Love your blog. It' the only way to make you serious about those 49 steps. :)

[boristoo]

i think its pointless going your seo this way

[dsouza]

It Really worked out for my site, thanks for posting.

[InvestInCzech]

Hi MattK and thanks for posting the suggestions; i've started submitting to Digg as a result of reading your ideas. One which i'm stuck on (and maybe some others) is this one -

Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds.

If you have time can you drop a couple of lines about how to do this or point me to a web self help area?

thanks

[srajni]

Thanks 4 such a huge list.
This really helps to one who wants to promote a website. I will try to follow all these for my new website.


Thanks
Rajni

[collings]

This made me laugh

Speel cheek ur stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.

:D

[dfdsolar]

It is very a good tips, great ones
I have constructed a new site about promotional products (http://www.sunpromotional.com) , i will do something like what you told on the new site

thanks very much

[N2R]

Thank you for the list. I'm liking this forum.

[paulund]

This is a good list thanks alot.

[Bathead]

Whatever you do, do not create multiple accounts with bookmarking sites to up the hits. They WILL ban you.

[jane p]

just got a new website its food. Dont know where to start any ideas with further promotion, blogs etc.

[vsl.online]

Now this looks like a good SEO Bible right here. I'm sure you can make your blog into something with these tips.

Thanks for sharing.

[johnskent]

Thanks for sharing the information..

[Miss Yang]

oh ,that is really good post ,thank you so much for the friend

[Multivariate]

Thanks for great advice! Will go through it one by one...

[amyieroberts]

Hi,
Its really useful tips for SEO. Thanks a lot for this.

[clickthrough_seo]

Very useful post that shows people exactly why they need to think beyond the search engines. Thanks!!

[thomas123]

great post, many thanks! I will follow the steps

[barginboyrob]

Great list, thank you for taking your time to do it!

[Wishes4u]

Thanks for the list, great post. I am slowely working through alot of the list.

[which]

It seems that to sit back and watch the money roll in,means work your way through a huge amount of lists and then what. Start all over again. Why isn't page rank important. I'm fairly new to this and seem to pick up a lot of conflicting advice

[Anelly]

Wow, this is quite in impressing list. If i do all the stuff listed there i bet my site will rock.

[adeliapearlie]

Hi,

Nice tips to improve web presence. Thanks for the info.

[Onyks]

Still really usefull 2 years after the original post.. .Thank you

[timelesscasting]

Nice post, it helped me a lot and added some knowledge about SEO. Thanks a lot.

[aras333]

nice list, but 49th about charity is not that effective - links should be in the same content as your website.

[gettencreative]

Great Advice, thanks!

[globalcvsolutions]

That is one of the best forum posts I have ever read! Going to implement some of these techniques to my new site. Thanks so much for the tips! :)

[accountancylad]

WOW! That's quite a lot!

[accountancylad]

I may need some help with SEO. Can anyone advise me on a good SEO company who is genuine with proven results, and importantly won't get me in trouble with the search engines. I keep hearing horror stories of people getting "sandboxed"!

thanks

[mattridler]

What a great forum post.

[National Office Week]

Great post but would be great to get this updated - existing techniques are always changing whilst new techniques are always appearing.

Such as:
8. Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree (http://www.gumtree.com/).

My friend was complaining the other day that once upon a time she could place a free ad on Gumtree, they now charge her £4.95.

Maybe replace with the free Twitter (http://twitter.com) which seems to be THE way to gain exposure to your website/service.

Kim

[mattridler]

Thanks for that I have now added my self to twitter.

[National Office Week]

Thanks for that I have now added my self to twitter.

No problem. What's your Twitter name?

Have just noticed you have a misspelling in your signature you might want to edit.

Kim :)

[mattridler]

Thanks for that, my twitter username mattridler not sure on how to use it yet.

[iyereoboite]

I just made a website called

directlisted dot com


Placing your ad will be free at the moment so hurry up. Its a UK classifed ads directory and i just put it onlie like 2 days ago.

The site is basically finished but it is constantly changing because its not 100% yet.

[iyereoboite]

I just made a website called

directlisted dot com


Placing your ad will be free at the moment so hurry up. Its a UK classifed ads directory and i just put it online like 2 days ago.

The site is basically finished but it is constantly changing because its not 100% yet.

[hamster]

Thanks, there are things so obvious to do I forgot :p

[mattridler]

Site looks good, needs a bit more information on it though, maybe add some things your self.

Nice one

[nancy_18am]

thanks for this it is really useful

[lisaKY]

That's a great article. Thanks for your sharing...

[SmartaUK]

You have no idea how grateful I am.

[globalcvsolutions]

This is argueable the best post on UK business forums, I have been taking a few of his pointers and it has been working very well! :)

[Clarke & Oliver]

Hi, I'm new to all this. The post was really useful! I'm really keen to learn about anchor links. How do I go about doing this?

Also am I OK to promote my company on here?

[ukbizbook]

Some great advice here and I am going to sit and spend some time doing some of the suggestions but can anyone suggest which numbers from the list are the most effective??

Regards
ukbizbook

http://www.ukbizbook.com

[Ali-v-8]

Some great advice here and I am going to sit and spend some time doing some of the suggestions but can anyone suggest which numbers from the list are the most effective??

Regards
ukbizbook

http://www.ukbizbook.com

Nearly all of it