How to promote a website?

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How to promote a website?

Frank Kalis

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August 22, 2003 at 2:54 am

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Hi there,
any ideas, tips, tricks on this are highly appreciated!
Cheers,
Frank
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mccork SSC-Insane Points: 22288 More actions · Answer 1

Is this for the "Frank Kalis - Employee of the Month" website?

Cheers,

- Mark

Cheers,
- Mark

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 2

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Is this for the "Frank Kalis - Employee of the Month" website?

hey, that's a good idea !!!!!

No, it isn't! Look at my profile and my homepage!

Cheers,

Frank

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vbkenya Old Hand Points: 342 More actions · Answer 3

Make sure the URL is part of your signature in all e-mails you send out. It worked for me.

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 4

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Make sure the URL is part of your signature in all e-mails you send out. It worked for me.

vbkenya ???

Same person as on sql-server-performance

Cheers,

Frank

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Andy Warren SSC Guru Points: 119902 More actions · Answer 5

Including your URL in email is a good step. We've relied mainly on word of mouth - it's slower than some methods, but solid. In the last few months we've tried some key word advertising on Google and that has worked reasonably well. Not cheap, but not hugely expensive either, depending on what keyword you're after I guess!

Andy

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Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 6

I'll better get some content on the site before making it really public. And the less it costs, the better for me. Right now this is simply private fun.

...and a little bit of anger, because obviously I'm the only active german poster here, or the others use smart usernames and mail adresses

Cheers,

Frank

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cwedgwood50 SSCommitted Points: 1751 More actions · Answer 7

Hi Frank,

Links,links,links! get as many as you can all over the web. If it's a technical site like, say,.. SQL server, for example, offer to swap reciprocal links with other similar sites that may send trafic your way. Goto Yahoo/MSN groups and find any similar groups there. You don't even need to ask for these just add a link to your site and someone will click through.

If it's a professional site think about putting the URL on all your business cards/headed notepaper too.

Join a web ring if you can find a suitable one http://www.webring.org/

If your looking at charging for something, think about also giving something away! This will keep people comming back.

Have a look here, this guy has it down to a T: http://www.learnvisualstudio.net

His videos are free, but only available for a limited time - To see the archives cost money.

There is also some techie stuff you can do when writting the html for your page to make sure search engines index it near the top.

http://www.marketleap.com/help/seo101/default.htm

HTH

Regards

Chris

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 8

Hi Chris,

thanks for your response!!!

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Links,links,links! get as many as you can all over the web. If it's a technical site like, say,.. SQL server, for example, offer to swap reciprocal links with other similar sites that may send trafic your way. Goto Yahoo/MSN groups and find any similar groups there. You don't even need to ask for these just add a link to your site and someone will click through.

I guess it's not that difficult, what my site is about

Anyway, it's aimed at german speaking users.

Although I like english forums to develop my skills, running a website in english would be a nightmare to me (typos, grammar error ).

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If it's a professional site think about putting the URL on all your business cards/headed notepaper too.

No, strictly private, but hopefully professionaly done

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Join a web ring if you can find a suitable one http://www.webring.org/

I will search

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If your looking at charging for something, think about also giving something away! This will keep people comming back.
Have a look here, this guy has it down to a T: http://www.learnvisualstudio.net
His videos are free, but only available for a limited time - To see the archives cost money.

I'm not planning on this. I guess tax will eat everything up, anyway, so I stay away.

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There is also some techie stuff you can do when writting the html for your page to make sure search engines index it near the top.
http://www.marketleap.com/help/seo101/default.htm

I've bookmarked it.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Frank

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Frank Kalis
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]