MadGrip

without blatently spamming other forums & newsgroups, whats the best way to promote a website ?

I've recently setup a site for jap car enthusiasts but need to get more traffic. I'm not doing this for any personal gains , just because I wanted to ,and the sponsors I have are getting free space at the moment.

any advice appreciated

Cheers

Phil

Fuchsrohre

Lots of techniques - its a bit of a black art. Search engines change their ranking criteria regularly.

Find "complimentary sites" you can do a link exchange with. The more sites that carry a link back to your site, the better.

Format your pages properly - breadcrumbs, metatags, etc...

Pay a 3rd party company to increase your ranking (can be expensive)

There's books on the subject that can be quite informative.

MadGrip

cheers mate, I like the link exchange idea, I'll have a look around

Phil

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

breadcrumbs ?

GaryK

They show your navgiation history across the top of the page so if you clicked 'products' then widgets then scooby widgets your breadcrumbs would be

Products->Widgets->Scooby Widgets

with the emphasis being you can easily jump back to any page.

Another idea is to create 'door-way' pages, just a blank html page actually called whatever your keywords are so have multiple ones and these all point to your home page, you can include tags on these too but be careful not to use too much repetition as the search engines can sniff this out and they don't like it!

Gary