Attracting web-site traffic

**PerlOfWisdom** · 23 April 2003, 10:55

"can I steal them from the local paper????"

All the car-ad papers seem to do this. About a week after the ad runs, they all ring you up to get you to advertise in their mag. Don't know how well it works though.

**roger rabbit** · 23 April 2003, 12:06

Tits oot for the lads. You know it makes sense.

**PerlOfWisdom** · 23 April 2003, 16:19

Wot?

**roger rabbit** · 23 April 2003, 16:31

Perl get a grip love. Sex sells even if it ain't too PC. A few pictures of local lovelies in Readers Wives type poses would increase the traffic dramatically. Who else is going to visit a site for a 1 horse town? You might even get visitors in person spending money in the place anxious to give one of the ladies a squeeze in person.

I am available for discreet video-taping of interesting adult liaisons at reasonable rates if it all takes off.

**PerlOfWisdom** · 23 April 2003, 16:40

Oh, I didn't understand ther relevance of your comment. Don't know how well it would work for a community based website (whatever that is).

Do you always call blokes "love", I thought only old ladies did that.

**roger rabbit** · 23 April 2003, 16:46

I withdraw the "love" Perls. Mixed you up with a female that used to be here called Pearls something.

**AtW** · 23 April 2003, 20:00

If you are unknown then make sure your site is SEO-ed: Search Engine Optimis-ed for GOOGLE. Then deal with other top search engines, but make sure google loves you. Consider investing some money into Google's adwords. If you sell anything then do ebay -- you will get nice traffic that may or may not (depends on the stickiness of your site) stick to it.

btw, ignore rabbit -- allegedly he holds an opinion that one must have £5 mln to promote site - not a penny less. :rollin

JS · 24 April 2003, 23:29

Re: Generating website traffic

Forget search engines, they're crap unless you have a fat wallet these days.

Put something 'sticky' on your site. Forum (www.snitz.com) free classifieds, chat, ringtones, mobile games.

Then Offline advertising is the name of the game. Make sure you have a simple, easy to remember domain name.
www.mytowneastbourneisafabplacetobe.co.uk is NOT the kind of thing you want. www.eastbourne.co.uk IS (someone has already registered it though).
Then plaster it EVERYWHERE.

Get some professional lettering (magnetic boards are ok and not too expensive) for every vehicle your family has. Get THOUSANDS of business cards with just the domain on and stick them through letterboxes (it will take DAYS to do this). Advertise in your local yellow pages. Get some BIG domain posters made up, local pubs let you stick them in in return for a free webtulipe of a few pages with pictures. And so on and so forth.

After a few months hard work you will have a few thousand hits a day from tight bastards who won't buy anything but will EAT bandwith on your forums/chat rooms - maybe you'll sell the odd ringtone.
:hat

**nicknack** · 25 April 2003, 11:55

Search engines

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Forget search engines, they're crap unless you have a fat wallet these days.
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That seems fine if all you want is local business or non-technical business leads, but what do you do if you want to hit a very tight niche technical area.

I've worked in AI, commercially and academically, for over a decade now and given the current market and although I have ongoing contract work I've decided to set up a web site as honey trap to see if any business comes along. I'm not aiming for local software development work, I have the contract market for that but for businesses that have specific problems AI can attack, scheduling, route planning, manufacturing, data mining etc search engines would seem the way to do it.

Nick Nack

www.sympatry.co.uk

Attracting web-site traffic