New website, what do you recommend in the early days (links etc)

[mally]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if any of you guys would be willing to share any tips regarding early days promoting a new website. Like a starters guide.

I've just created a website, and started off by submitting it to google, via google webmaster tools and added the sitemap there.

What else would you do in the early days?

Cheers mally

 

[Murray]

I would make sure all the onsite SEO stuff is done

If you've done the above then I would assume you've already identified what keywords you want to go for

I would look at those keyword and who is ranking for what and try and workout why.

Well, I would of done this before I started the site to make sure ranking was realistically achievable

How you go about promoting it generally really depends on the type of site though, if it's a service, product, b2b etc

 

[accelerator]

Do a post about the new site from your Google Plus profile.

Rgds

 

[martin-s]

SEO isn't going to get you much traffic to get excited about to begin with, so depending on how quickly you're looking to grow I'd look at:

PPC
Influencers (assuming you've got something interesting happening)
Activity on related forums and community sites
Buying email traffic (click banking)
Pinterest if you have pretty content (particularly Pinterest groups)
Etc

 

[Adam H]

How you go about promoting it generally really depends on the type of site though, if it's a service, product, b2b etc

This ^^

If its a launch of a new business, product or service then focus on the onpage/site/server side, get social, do some citation building to start you off with some brand awareness and do some outreach to parties which may have an interest.

Spend good money on a press release about said product/service and remember to do follow up releases when there is actually news to release.(don't get greedy and do crap releases about nothing). PPC if your budget allows.


Slow and steady. If its not a business, product or service and just some random blog or affiliate landing page then your strategy would be entirely different.

 

[Admin]

If you want me to run it through my Website Auditor tool and send you the report just let me know the domain.

Confidentially if you prefer.

Admin

 

[arulkaruppannan]

Do these things

Do SEO Audit and please confirm that audit report have the results of,

Title, Description, Meta keywords,Keyword density,keywords usage,h1 tag status,Code To Text Ratio,Robots.txt Test,Sitemap Test,Broken Links Test,Underscores in Links Test,Image Alt Test,Inline CSS Test,Deprecated HTML Tags,Google Analytics Test,Favicon Test,URL SEO Friendly Test,Media Print Test,Page Objects,HTML Page Size Test,HTML Compression/GZIP Test,Page Cache Test (Server Side Caching),JS Minification Test,CSS Minification Test,Nested Tables Test,Frameset Test,Doctype Test,Site Loading Speed Test,Flash Test,URL Canonicalization Test,IP Canonicalization Test,Safe Browsing Test,Directory Browsing Test,Libwww-perl Access Test,Media Query Responsive Test,Microdata Schema Test, Mobile Responsive Test

After that do the required SEO works

 

[dashu1]

It all depends on the niche - if it's a "soft" one that isn't saturated with lots of affiliates and large retailers then you should be able to rank pretty easily via content, otherwise if it is tough then you need to be thinking about PBNs - ideally your own.

Do not use publicly advertised PBNs, automated link building services, or software, etc, directory submissions, article submissions, forum signature links, etc.

Also make sure you've run list after list after list of keywords and variations to find as many long tails as you can, and salt those through your sites posts to aim to rank for them.

There are lots of people who claim to know about SEO (legal SEO that is without hacking sites, etc) who actually know diddly squat and have no examples of sites in competitive niches that they can show you where they have made a difference.

There's several on here.

Obviously avoid them.

 

[Murray]

you need to be thinking about PBNs - ideally your own.

You have to remember your audience "build your own PBN" isn't practical advice if you don't know the first thing about how.