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How to Attract Advertisers to Your Website
Attracting advertisers is a crucial step in the survival of a website if you are depending on the funds to keep your site up and running. When it comes to the World Wide Web advertising is an almost unlimited resource when it comes to the amount of views one advertisement can receive. It is because of this that companies are looking to the web in order to increase the popularity of their products or services. When starting up your own website their are several steps you can take in order to increase your potential to attract advertisers and at the same time help promote your own site.
1. Market Your Website. Before anything you need to make people aware of your website. It would be quite difficult to sell companies to advertise on your site if no one is aware of your site in the first place. In order to do this you must promote your site to the Web and its audience. Once this is done companies will be more willing to advertise on your site since your site already has a steady inbound traffic of viewers.
2. Sign up with an Affiliate Program. Affiliate programs are the easiest way to attract advertisers to your website and at the same time make a little money. These programs allow you to get paid by referring customers to another site that offers services or products. These affiliate programs are perfect for small websites or Blogs that have just started up and want to get their name out there. Once you have these ads placed on your site it will attract other Advertisers because they will know you are willing to advertise on your site.
3. Offer Advertising Space. Another good way to attract advertisers is to have a spot on your website that shows visitors you are excepting advertisements. This is usually done by placing an “Advertise Here” banner or image on some of your pages to your website. Be careful though because you don’t want to overdo it by placing them all over each page to where it renders the appearance or content of that page. One per page is plenty to let them know you are willing to accept advertising on your site.
4. It does not hurt to ask. If your website is new to the internet it would not hurt to email companies that you think may benefit from advertising on your website. If anything it will help get your websites name out there to the public and attract new visitors. If you do this make sure you let them know in the email what your site is about and how their business can profit from advertising on your website. Be sure to also give them a link to your main page so they can view your site and see it for themselves.
Tips
Be prepared. If you are trying to attract advertisers you need to be prepared and look professional. Go ahead and have the information needed for companies to advertise with you. An example of this may be advertising prices and spaces available for your website, and the payment type and process you prefer for advertisements n your site.
Do your research. It is up to you to decide who advertises on your website. If you want to have an honest and helpful reputation amongst your visitors and other websites, you need to make sure the advertisers’ you are doing business with have the same morals and values as you. Putting other companies advertisements on your site is the same as recommending that company so know their information before you commit.
-By: Michael W Cole
Wizard of the Websites – How to Attract Advertisers – My name is Michael Cole and I am the creator and developer of Wizard of the Websites. I have designed this site for the purpose to help people who want to start their own website, but don’t know where to begin. Building your own website can be a tricky process if you do not do it properly and know the correct steps to take. That’s where Wizard of the Websites comes in to play to inform people on how to turn their idea of building a website into a successful reality. If you are searching for help and tips on your website I urge you to continue to check back with the site frequently, because Wizard of the Websites is an ongoing project where we will continue to add more web pages with helpful information.
Article Marketing Tips
Many individuals who write their first web site get a rude surprise after launching it. They spend a long time thinking about making a website, a long time studying how to build one and a long time making it. They launch it and wait for visitors to flock to it. And nothing happens. No-one comes by. After a time, they might get four or five visitors and then nothing again.
A lot of individuals think that all you have to do is build a web site and it will be registered by the search engines and then people will find it. This is just not true, although you may become indexed after a while. The problem with this tactic is that when people search on a term and the results appear, there are usually several hundred thousand listings. As an unknown site, yours will be close to the bottom of the pile and most people only look at the first page or two of results.
So, the secret is to get your web site listed on the front page of Google’s search results. Article marketing will help your web site rise in the listings and become detectable to your prospective patrons. It is far better to advertise your website so that it will be seen, than to have a showy website that no-one will ever learn about. You can add the bells and whistles later, if you still think it is worth while.
The explanation why writing articles works so well at raising your website’s visibility, is because of the way that Google operates. Google attempts to rank websites on their popularity, which is supposed to give an indication of its worth. It gauges popularity by the number of websites that link back to it. These are known as backlinks.
If Google finds a backlink to your website, it checks your website for a mutual backlink to the website that holds one to you. Reciprocal backlinks are not as valuable as non-reciprocal backlinks. When you write an article, you are permitted to place two links back to your website (put one to your home page and one to another page).
If you send that article to an article distribution site (and there are hundreds), other web masters may publish your article with its backlinks. The better the article, the more times it will be published, the more solo backlinks you will get and the higher you will rise in Google. The majority of money made on any search term will be made by the websites at the top of the first page.
There are some other methods of getting backlinks, but article promotion is by far the best, steadiest long term tactic for marketing a web site.
Who is likely to take up your article? Well, the distribution website for a start, but also newsletter writers, website owners, bloggers and others who need new content for their own businesses, but who might not have the time or expertise to write their own articles.
Send your article to article directories and websites like MySpace, where they can be found, read and followed back to your website. See the article as a funnel to your website.
Sign up to blogs or produce your own and post them there, but only post relevant articles on other people’s blogs.
When you have a number of related articles, combine them into a book and give it away or sell it with your backlinks in situ.
Put a link on your website to an autoresponder which will deliver your articles to people who sign up for it.
-By: Owen Jones
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on quite a few subjects, but is at present concerned with Website Marketing Plans. If you would like to know more or check out some great offers, please visit our website at The Best Sales And Marketing Strategy.
