Marketing My New Website – Day 1

Marketing my new website – Day 1

A journal of marketing my new website to generate traffic….

(Updates will be under the specific category of – “My Marketing Journal“)

I thought I would create a journal here at MommyRevenue.com on marketing my brand new website, “BetterBusinessPro.com” which currently has a page rank of “0″ (of course.)

Launching steps…

I decided to launch a site targeted toward small business owners.  I had some affiliate programs that I wanted to promote that would fit perfect for such a site.

On planning my site, I started searching diligently for some keywords that I could use for a new domain name.  I’ve had good results using good keywords within my domain name.  I used Google’s keyword tool, which gave me some good ideas for names as well.

Sometimes I have to dig a little deep.  I start with some broad keywords.  I look for some keywords that get a fair share of traffic, but yet are not overly competitive.   I take some of those specific keywords to create another search to narrow things down a bit.

I discovered that the keyword “better business” gets a monthly search of 1,200,000.   It’s a very competitive keyword, really…but wouldn’t mind throwing it into my domain name since I’m focusing on business.  Not really sure…so I search some more and discovered that “business pro” gets an average of 135,000 searches per month.  I consider that I could throw these words together “better business pro” and perhaps build a new site with some great keywords.  *With articles that I write, I generally use much lower competitive keywords than these.

Marketing Day 1

My focus in this stage is to start gaining some backlinks to build up my pagerank.  I’m not going to stress out over the pagerank, but yet, I’m going to take some measures to start generating traffic…which I’m hoping to generate mainly “free” organic traffic from the search engines.  Free traffic is the best, isn’t it?  It’s worth the extra work.

Today, I decided to use WL Marketing’s directory submission service to list my site in numerous directories. (It’s quite affordable…and will save me a world of time.)  I love directories because they provide a permanent back link to my site.  I also take care to use the keywords that I’m focusing on for my submission.

*Note: If you can’t afford to splurge even a few bucks for a submission service, then try doing your own submission work — you can find some directories at Directory Critic.

I’ve also added my new site to one of my signature links at a forum that I participate in. (Another backlink from a high pagerank site, plus free traffic from my sig.)  I’ll be updating my other signature links overtime.

I also wanted to add that I installed the “All in One SEO” wordpress plugin.  All you need to do is go to your “Plugins” link inside your control panel and then click on “add new” and then put in the title of the plugin in the search box to locate it.  Don’t forget to go to your “Settings” afterwards to fill in your keywords for your seo plugin.

*Grab your copy of my brand new ebook, “Breakout Seo” to learn powerful strategies you can use immediately to easily attract organic traffic from the search engines.

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Today’s Marketing Cost:  $10 – (or zero if you do your own directory submissions)

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