This is a series of articles relating to advertising activities behind launching a new web site. This article represents day 3 of a 30 Day Plan to build traffic to a new web site and report the number of daily visitors as reported in AWStats in the CPanel.
The following is a list of marketing activities performed for the day.
1. Spent time reading Webproworld.com for marketing tips. Advice from the web site, Webproworld.com was that “some of the best ways to build links are forum posting, blog commenting, directory submission, article submission, and social bookmarking and you can use all of these strategies at the same time.”
2. Published an ezine article on coolchecks.net/blog with a link to the new site.
3. Checked Google to see if the site had been included in their index. There were 7 page results from social bookmarking, but the main site has not been indexed yet.
4. Asked for help from a Facebook friend, Amit Nyamtabad to do more Social Bookmarks.
5. Posted links on Twitter and Facebook about Christian Bank Checks.
6. Made forum comments on three forums.
7. Spent time at Alexa.com finding out my who was linking to my competitors.
8. Submitted to two directories, prolinkdirectory.com and directoryvault.com.
9. Published an article at www.coolchecks.net about business checks which linked back to the new site.
10. Checked Cpanel Statistics on visitors.
Aug. 1 = 29
Aug. 2 = 26
Aug. 3 = 21 (This may change by tomorrow.)
Conclusions: It takes a while for Google to index sites so while you are waiting for that to happen, it’s good to spend time doing other promoting activities.
