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Marketing Your Site

Marketing your Product or service on the Internet requires an excellent website! Before you drive traffic to your site, you must work out all the details of your site. So many business are offering great quality products and services, and have great traffic going into their site, but lose the sale because the site is impossible to navigate, or turn the viewer off because of the design. To find out more about basic web site development visit Basic Web Design Site.

Marketing your website is many times a time consuming and expensive endeavor! Driving traffic to your site is very important, Driving the RIGHT traffic is even MORE important!

As many professional webdesigners have learned the hard way, just getting a LOT of visitors to your site is not always a good thing... especially if they are not buying the product/Service and they are not clicking your advertising!! With high traffic comes extra charges from your hosting company and buying extra bandwidth can add up!

So getting the RIGHT traffic to your site is of paramount importance! Especially if you are in a specific business which cannot be changed as easily as an INTERNET ADVERTISING company!

Website Promotion Strategies:

See how the comptition is doing:

bizrate.com While search engines, price bots, and portals feature only those stores that pay them the most, BizRate.com is free to list every quality store on the web. In fact, online stores can NOT pay to be listed or featured on BizRate.com. Also, because BizRate.com is the only resource continuously collecting direct feedback from millions of actual customers as they buy, we know which Web sites are good, what they are good at, and how their service varies each day. So, BizRate.com is the only site that can take your particular needs and match them with the stores that are best suited to serve you.

Promoting your website:

Banner Exchange Programs: bCentral - Free

Buying Advertising: cj.com - reliable and flexible
Mailing List: Electronic Media And Research Consultants - provides companies with targeted e-mail list.
News and Interest Groups ROI Direct.com - provides Internet-based direct marketing services.

Search Engines:
- Key words essential to Search Engine success
- Search Engine Positioning
- Use Meta Tags, Improve your site ranking
Understanding your visitors - the NUMBERS - Some FREE Resources for Building your On Line Store!
BUY IT! (fee ranging from 6% - 1% plus a fixed fee depending upon cost of item sold)
- Give your customers a safe, secure way to pay over the Internet.
- Accept credit card orders online without a merchant account.
- No setup or monthly fees!
- Pay a transaction fee only when you sell a product!
- Easy to install in 5 minutes or less.
- You can use the BuyIt! Button to sell tangible, physical, hard goods. Exceptions include: vehicles that require a "title" to be transferred, real estate, firearms, tickets to events, travel tickets, time-sensitive documents, and illegal drugs and paraphernalia. Also, the BuyIt! Button does not currently support sale of memberships, subscriptions or services for which delivery cannot be verified by i-Escrow.

Recommended Reading

Data Mining Your Website by Jesus Mena -- Data Mining Your Website will teach you the tools, techniques, and technologies you'll need to profile current and potential customers and predict on-line interests and behavior. You'll learn how to extract from the huge pools of information your website generates, insights into on-line buying patterns, and how to apply this knowledge to design a website ....

THE savvy way to successful website promotion; Attracting on-line traffic; Guide to top positioning on search engines by Derek Galon -- This comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself Web promotion and successful on-line business, can be your most valuable assistant on the difficult way to real Web success on a small budget. This is a book on Web promotion...