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How to Effectively Promote a Web Site
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advertolog at Monday ~ June 06, 2008
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So you built a Web site? All done? Amrit Ray posts his thoughts on how to promote a Web site. How do I effectively promote my website, is a million dollar question. And yes, it is no exaggeration. People all over the world are making millions by effectively promoting their websites and reaching out to thousands of potential businesses that they otherwise had never thought possible. The advent of technology and its easy accessibility has changed the way people buy or do business online. All this has ushered in a new era of e-commerce where people’s perception towards online businesses has changed dramatically and they are ready to accept the concept of online businesses and feel comfortable buying from someone they have never met or probably will never meet in person. Now this has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for businesses worldwide. Everybody is vying for a share of the million dollar online market. The first step of course involves getting an attractive website done highlighting the products you want to sell. A good professional web designer would be able to help you out here both with web hosting and design. The next step involves promoting your website so that it reaches its target audience. There is no sure shot way or magic pill that one can use to promote their website. And in fact, no one knows for sure what works and what does not. All major search engines have different criteria or algorithm to judge how relevant a website is to its audience. No one knows the exact factors that make one website feature over the other on certain keywords. However some factors that could increase your search engine visibility are back links and good content. Back links are links from other websites leading back to your own website. The quality of the website linking back to your site is also very important. Back links from negative websites could harm your websites image, so be careful about that. Now the question is how do you get back links? The simple answer is, ask them for it. Though, link exchange in my opinion is not a very good idea. Search engines will know that you have mutually exchanged the links and the link backs are artificial. Submit your website to Directories. There are thousands of them out there. It takes time and patience. Leave comments on blogs with a link to your website. This is one point that should never be over done. There is a fine line between promoting and spamming and crossing the line could be disastrous. No one likes spammers and neither do search engines. Too many back links in a short period of time can also arouse suspicion, so continue at a steady pace until you see your ranking improve. Another good way of getting back links is posting in forums as most of them allow you to use your website address in your signature. Now when people start to find your website online it is important that your website has relevant and interesting content so that your visitors stay online longer. The longer they stay the more chances they will buy. These are a few small steps one can take to promote ones website effectively.
WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 7!
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advertolog at Monday ~ June 06, 2008
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By Amy Armitage Wow .. we are already at round 7 of our design contest and we have 5 more slick designs for you to vote on: Maeioska by Mehmet Ozekinci Sugared Spring by Liza Kliko AutumnLeaves by Edgardo Canape Jr. MyWall by Mehmet Vector Flowers by n252 Vote Now!
Visit our to submit your entry as there are still a couple of weeks left of the contest. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008
WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 6 Results
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advertolog at Monday ~ June 06, 2008
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By Amy Armitage Our winner this week, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is: Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk Well done Nicki! I’m really happy to see your designs in this series. You are one of my favorite WordPress designers! :D
WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 6!
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advertolog at Tuesday ~ May 05, 2008
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By Amy Armitage Our 5 entries for round 6 are: Twilight Crown by Nicki Faulk Aakon by Tomas Sramek Lilicious by Liza Kliko Butterfly by Mehmet Ozekinci Moo by n252 Vote Now! Good luck to everyone this week!
WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 5 Results
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advertolog at Tuesday ~ May 05, 2008
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By Amy Armitage Round 5 received a high number of votes and most popular was Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada and The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson. Our winner this week, voted by our community and Lunarpages staff is: Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada Visit our to submit your entry as there are still several weeks left of the contest. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008
Country Specific Hosting
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advertolog at Wednesday ~ May 05, 2008
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We are fortunate enough to have have UK web host blogger, Ben Bolin, share some thoughts about country specific hosting. Ben is blogging at the moment from Egypt. Thanks for being a guest blogger at Web Hosting Finds! Why Country Specific Hosting Is Important for Marketing and E-commerce Something not many people know when choosing a web host is the importance of choosing a host that will aid your marketing and your website’s niche. This can be very important if you are running an online store depending on the geographic region you are focusing on. So first let’s start with an explanation of why this all depends on who your site’s visitors will be. Most internet connections are very fast but it still matters where the physical server is hosted in terms of speed. If I was starting an online store focusing on customers in Texas the site is going to server faster to people from Texas if it is in Texas. Similarly if you are building a site aimed at United Kingdom residents you don’t want the server to be in the United States or even Europe in some cases. By hosting in a location near your customer base you are speeding up their access time to the server. This might not seem like a big deal but in a number of studies the importance of a quick loading page can mean a big difference in the number of conversions. Or if you are hosting a game server ping time will obviously matter when you are shooting your next zombie. In terms of marketing it is also important in the eyes of Google and other search engines. One of the many factors for knowing whether they should rank you in a country specific search engine such as Google.co.uk or Google.com is dependent on your IP’s location as well as your domain name ending. By using a host in the country your site is serving you are sending one more indication to Google of where you should be ranked. We have had plenty of customers at who came to us from USA based hosting and after they started using our servers which are in the United Kingdom they found that conversions increased and they had lower shopping cart abandonment rates. Which when you are running an online store are two very key factors. This is also why we offer our customers in both the United Kingdom and USA, we want to be able to give them the best of both worlds.
WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 5!
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advertolog at Monday ~ May 05, 2008
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By Tiara Rea Amy is in Washington this week, so she has asked me to post the round 5 entries. Kollane by Mehmet Ozekinci Hanami by A. Mignolo Phunk Attack by Dulce Rose Lada The Grundge by Ophelia Nicholson Gaia by Tomas Sramek Vote Now! Visit our to submit your entry. Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008.
WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 4 Results
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advertolog at Monday ~ May 05, 2008
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Our Finalist for Round 4 is Vectorize by Ed Canape! This round was a bit different as we had to disqualify one contestant (please read the rules before you enter - only themes YOU create or have rights to can be submitted!) and then there were two winners! So we had some of our staff here at Lunarpages pick the winner from the two tied in first place, and the winner is Vectorize by Ed Canape. We agreed that this theme should be the clear winner this round: Congratulations, Ed!!
WordPress Theme Design Contest - Vote on Round 4!
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advertolog at Monday ~ May 05, 2008
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By Amy Armitage The 5 themes we have chosen for round 4 are: Dark Mood v2 by Edgardo Canape Jr. Entropy by Paul Robinson Fashioniesta by Ophelia Nicholson Tree Sunset by andrej Vectorize by Ed Canape To check out the prizes and rules, visit our . Designers can submit as many entries as they want and entries close June 22, 2008 so there is still time to get your theme in!
WordPress Series 2 Design Contest - Round 3 Results
Posted by
advertolog at Monday ~ May 05, 2008
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By Amy Armitage Our finalist for round 3 is Translucent Dream by Nicki Faulk Our team agrees with the large number of community votes! Congratulations Nicki!
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