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Posted by Auggie on 01/18/44 11:33
"Walter" <salkdfdsa8@coalface.net> wrote in message
news:1133433459.708796.75400@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hiya,
>
> I've been considering different ways to promote my site, and need help
> brainstorming. So far, I've been using fairly traditional methods:
>
> 1) registering the site with search engines
> 2) engaging in link-exchanges
> 3) posting adverts when appropriate
> 4) adding the URL to my mail signature
> 5) pestering friends and family to use and promote the site, and
> 6) posting the URL in dubious usenet questions like "Advice on
> promoting my website"
>
> The main problem I see with promoting it is that it is a service
> targeted at people who probably don't know they need it, or that
> something like it even exists (it's a URL shortening service). Thus,
> getting good positioning on search engines doesn't help much.
>
> Would it be worthwhile paying for ads, say via Google AdSense? Or are
> there other avenues I'm missing? How patient should I be? Four weeks
> in, and visits to the site are tepid, at best.
First off... A month in is a pretty limited time frame. Definitly going to
need abit more time for word to spread and search engines to index and place
your site.
For the service you are offering this is probably going to be one of those
things where the best marketing of the service will be through its actual
use by the end users.
In thinking about the other services out there... TinyURL, MakeAShorterLink,
etc... I've seen them and I've used them, but I've never Googled for such a
service and I've never seen an ad marketing such a service.
I think if I was trying to push and promote a service like this what I might
do is subscribe to a bunch of usenet groups where there is alot of
discussion and links being exchanged and then look for posts like:
"
Hey, here is the link to that information you wanted:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-28,GGLG:en&q=how+to+make+a+shorter+link
"
and then maybe follow up with them using your service with something like:
"
> Hey, here is the link to that information you wanted:
>
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-28,GGLG:en&q=how+to+make+a+shorter+link
If you couldn't get the above link to work, try:
http://linkfrog.net/daax
"
The big thing here is that you want to have your posts be actually helpful,
not just an excuse to get your link out there and you probably shouldn't be
following it up with a .sig thats pushing the URL as well.
A Note:
To do the above example I used your site to shorten the google search to the
http://linkfrog.net/daax
A problem I found was that after I got the shortened link above, I wanted to
copy and paste it into this usenet posting and because of how your page is
setup I couldn't. I could CLICK on the link, but I couldn't just highlight
the text and then right click the mouse to COPY it.
So in order to put the above example in, I had to paste the URL into your
text box... create the link... then I had to actually type out the whole:
http://linkfrog.net/ and then enter the code "daax" myself.
For that I would say look at how MakeAShorterLink.com does it... it creates
a link but you can still highlight it. Because you put the link in a box (I
didn't check if it was a DIV or a table cell or what) I can't get the mouse
in there, or if I do it copies the entire contents of the page from the link
to the bottom of the page.
A Second Note:
For a service like this, or for a service where you want people to try and
remember the name on their own or spready through word of mouth and usage,
you should seriously consider getting a .com domain name.
Even myself, after reading your signature and wanting to use your service in
the above example, I remembered already that your service name was
"linkfrog" and when I went to IE I keyed in "linkfrog.com" and when I got a
dead link I had to come back and check your email to see that you had a .net
domain name.
You probably want something short, but even looking at
www.makeashorterlink.com that isn't very short and its not just one or two
words (its 4 words long), but it is easy to remember and its a .com
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