Niche Web sites by Esta Weiss
As a client of mine said to me recently “how can I sell X when there are millions selling it already”?
Answer? Never mind the millions, that first 5 pages of search results are your competitors, forget the rest of them.
Two, choose a niche within that larger topic that you can focus on that the “big boys" are ignoring. Larger is not
necessarily better and too wide of offerings and you will lose focus. Pick a focus and stay with it. It allows the engines
to list you as an “authority " site on that subject.
You have to be ON the engines in order to be found by anyone, how do to that?
You can do it all by hand (which I highly recommend) for free to most engines.
There are many sites full of links to site submissions pages for search engines.
Time frames from date of submission to when you are listed vary.
You can pay for rapid submission which may get you there sooner, but I don't recommend it in most cases.
As it will not help you much with relevancy or ranking contrary to popular opinion.
Pay per click ads, where you have purchased ad space, may or may not be useful, as peoples eyes tend to drift right
over the top of such results when using the engines, to get to the " organic " results. Lets face it people are tired of
advertisements and will generally ignore anything that even remotely looks like an ad.
The engines themselves are much to blame for the failure, as all too often the site in the sponsored space is not the
the most relevant site. People have learned that through personal experience, so buying ad space may not be in your
Now does this mean just hit any and all engines ? No. You have to reach " your " viewer, which means targeting them
by placing your site in the engines and directories that your chosen viewer may frequent. This requires thought and
planning as you have to do your homework as to what engines and directories will best serve your needs.
How to find them ? Simple, plug the words "search engine" or "directory", along with your site topic, into any large meta
engine (that searches many engines at once ) and follow the leads it gives you. This is a repeated event,as new engines
and directories are born everyday. Your only other decision to make is are you going do it yourself, use automated
software, or hire someone to do it for you. As this can be a time consuming process.
Nearly all the engines have a link popularity formula that is part of their ranking system. Therefore, back links pointing
to the site are important to have. However, you don't want just any links, only relevant links to your topic. Marketing again,
target your viewer and only your viewer who will be interested in what you have. Link exchange that does not bring you
targeted traffic is useless.
You can, seek these out yourself via direct requests to site holders with a link exchange request letter.
You can join a link exchange program and swap links with other members
You can invest in automated software that will seek out link partners.
You can become an affiliate of related companies
How you do this depends a great deal on your time and funding allowances. However you do it ,
the number of back links must grow as the site ages. This is an ongoing process.
How to find places you might want to exchange with ? Same as before, go to a meta engine and plug in
your main site topic or keywords for your topic and watch the returns. These will be, in order of
relevance, the most popular sites related to your topic. Check them out to see if a link with them
would be reasonable or possible and check to see who "they" link to and who those sites link to etc. etc.
Analyze your competition and see what they have done, nothing works like success.
As you can see, this is the same behavior over and over, using the engines themselves to find the
information you need for what engines and directories to submit the site to. And what sites to try
and get linked up with in order to bring to your web door the viewer who most wants to see/buy what you have.
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