Guerilla Web Promotion and Marketing
(v. 1.2) Content is the fuel that drives the lonely web surfer. The various products available on the web may get a surfer occasionally, but what keeps so many people staring glassy eyed at their computer screens into the wee hours of the morning is the vast content available on the web. If you gear your site to simply sell your product and do nothing else, chances are you probably won't sell anything. Why? Because nobody will go there unless they are looking specifically for your product and they just so happen to find it via a search engine (See "Search Engine Tactics" available for free at the Internet Marketing Library). If you offer content, however, people will come to your site for it and will come back for more. Once again, the only limits here are your limitations. What type of special knowledge do you have the people will want? If you don't think that you can create some quality content on your own (not likely if you just think about it), then why don't you try to offer content from some important figure in your field? In return you can give them a back-link to their website from the article/column. Most people will jump at the opportunity to have their ideas printed somewhere else. It's a win/win situation. You benefit by adding draw to your site and they benefit from the increased exposure. I did this for Hot Rod Your Head and it's now a huge success. I have several well-known authors writing columns for the site. So am I something special? Well, no! I just had the cajones needed to approach these people. That's all it takes. Handling yourself professionally and courteously helps a bit, too, of course. I linked this site into another site I run, Potentools.com. Potentools is purely commerce. A shopping mall and nothing more. But the number of hits I get as a result of the content at Hot Rod Your Head makes it a pretty successful online mall. If you still don't have any ideas, just look around at some other websites and see what they are doing. You need to be original, of course, but this should help you get some ideas. Home | The Basics | Contests | E- mail | Events and Press Releases | Linking | Awards | Content
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