You have decided to take the plunge and put you business on the Internet. You have a limited marketing budget and want to promote your new site to attract new clients. First, you are informed you will have to register your site with all of the search engines, which is a time consuming, tedious task. Some promotional sites claim to submit your site to thousands of search engines for a nominal fee. This seems like a bargain to you and you take advantage of this service. After waiting a few weeks you find this brings no additional traffic to your new web site and you can't find your site on any of the major search engines.
Some accomplished SEO experts have a different approach. They will tell the novice web site builder that you never have to register your website with the search engines in order to indexed. How can this be? If you are developing web content for your site on an ongoing basis and getting links from other sites that themselves are being spidered daily, these spiders have to follow the links to your site. This is how the SEO experts get their sites ranked and spidered so quickly. One of the best ways is to join a well trafficked forum. These forums that have been around a while are constantly spidered by the major search engines. Once you have joined, post your knowledge or lack of knowledge regularly. Also, post links back to your site with keywords about your site in the anchor text. Find a forum that allows you to post links. Alternate your anchor text. Link deep into your site changing the link target page regularly. Every time the spider follows the link it will pick-up one or more of your pages in its index. Sometimes this whole procedure can be accomplished in a few hours.
Another benefit to linking from a forum is that you are slowly building the number of links back to your site. These are the highly valued one-way links many site owners pay dearly for. There is some evidence that Google likes to have links pointing to its home page. If you are so inclined you might have a link from some of your pages directly to Google's home page. I can't see where this would ever hurt your search engine ranking. If Google likes being linked to, then why not link from Google to your site. Google has many forums which allow linking back to your site. Make sure your post is pertinent to the topic at hand and interesting and you will even develop some traffic from this post.
All of these hints can also be applied to other search engines that have forums and allow the same back-links. There are a number of huge web sites all over the Internet that get tons of traffic and are spidered every day, and they will allow you to follow the same indexing strategy. Most of these have been abused by marketers at one time or another but they still fulfill our purpose of getting indexed quickly. One of the fastest growing Internet communities is myspace. This should work quite nicely.
Ever wonder how your friends got such a cool MySpace page and yours is dull and drab? Why did your friends find a way to have blinking graphics with an awesome background and didn’t tell you how they did it? Are they keeping all of the good info to themselves? Don’t be mad at your friends any longer, for you’ve found yourself a cheat sheet to getting the absolute coolest MySpace layouts.
First things first, if you don’t have a masters degree in IT or computer science, no worries. If you can read this, you can set your page up, with the right tools of course. If you’ve never used the “right click" on your mouse, familiarize yourself with it, as well as the “cut and paste" feature within. Practice a bit on a word document. All you need to do is hold down the left click from bottom to top, right to left (basically the opposite direction from how you type) to “highlight" words or the area that you wish to work with, right click your mouse with the arrow on the highlighted area, and then left click on copy. Now the information you wish to transfer is now “held" and ready to paste. Now when you “right click" your mouse, the word “paste" will appear. Left click on “paste" and your information will reappear. This practice is all that you’ll need to get an awesome MySpace layout with the right source.
Now you’ll need to figure out what you want to do on your page. Do you want a layout that someone created for you, or do you want to make your own by piecing together the details yourself? In any case, all you need now is a MySpace editor to generate the correct codes for you to copy and paste into the “about me" section of your MySpace page. It might even be in your best interest to go to your profile home page to familiarize yourself a bit before you go out in search of your ideal layout, just to save yourself some time and aggravation when the time comes to set up your super-cool page. It’s the exact same area that you type in “Hi! I’m Sue!" and whatnot. Simply copy and paste the generated codes there.
As for the details, it’s all a “follow the dots’ sort of mentality. I do recommend a complete layout for those who are not-so computer savvy to start. As you gain more knowledge of the workings of MySpace editors, you can create your own custom page, maybe with some intense graphics from a trustworthy MySpace graphics site.
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