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How to Advertise a Website?

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I just started a new website called http://www.eliminet.org that has to do with Web Development and Desktop Programming, and I do not know how to attract members. I already have my site indexed in Yahoo and Google will not take my site for some reason.

Anyway, I have advertised many places, but for some reason I cannot attract anyone to my site. Is there a reason why? I just want to get people to join my site and post on the forums, etc.

I just need some advice.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Being marked down by Google could have something to do with this:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... net.org%2F

Google likes valid (compliant) code from what I remember - should be easy to fix those issues though.

Being linked to from various places helps, but I think Google actually marks you down for being linked to in the wrong places (e.g. on a page full of links to adult content when your website is about golf or whatever).

It's pretty difficult to get your website to far quickly purely using the internet - yes it will go somewhere eventually but it takes time. If you need to publicise it quickly you want to get your web address in magazines, in the paper, in shop windows, in the back of your car etc etc. That's probably only worth doing if you're using the site for business means.
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Post by Seraphino »

Thanks for your quick response....yeah, I am gonna get those errors fixed.
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Post by Buddha443556 »

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.style2 {color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 2px; }
oh ... that right there could be a problem. 2px size font? Get rid of the lil'font-size and stuff the rest into an external css file.
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Buddha443556 wrote:

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.style2 {color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 2px; }
oh ... that right there could be a problem. 2px size font? Get rid of the lil'font-size and stuff the rest into an external css file.
:lol:

I use 1px fonts sometimes :P No kidding.

I use it in clearing divs that structure layouts.

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<div style="float: left">Foo</div>
<div style="float: left">Bar</div>

<div style="font-size: 1px; height: 1px; clear: both;">&nbsp;</div>

<div style="float: left">Below foo</div>
Using height:0 was causing problems in IE at some point in time for something I was doing (it was ignoring that the div even needed to be rendered). You also need to &nbsp; in some browsers so 1px seemed like a good compromise :)
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Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

d11wtq wrote:
Buddha443556 wrote:

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.style2 {color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 2px; }
oh ... that right there could be a problem. 2px size font? Get rid of the lil'font-size and stuff the rest into an external css file.
:lol:

I use 1px fonts sometimes :P No kidding.

I use it in clearing divs that structure layouts.

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<div style="float: left">Foo</div>
<div style="float: left">Bar</div>

<div style="font-size: 1px; height: 1px; clear: both;">&nbsp;</div>

<div style="float: left">Below foo</div>
Using height:0 was causing problems in IE at some point in time for something I was doing (it was ignoring that the div even needed to be rendered). You also need to &nbsp; in some browsers so 1px seemed like a good compromise :)
Can't you use <br style="clear: all;">?
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

d3ad1ysp0rk wrote:Can't you use <br style="clear: all;">?
Not sure... I'll give it a go once I'm finished doing this little job :) <br /> isn't a block level element though so it looks a bit wrong.
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Post by Buddha443556 »

d11wtq wrote:
Buddha443556 wrote:

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.style2 {color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 2px; }
oh ... that right there could be a problem. 2px size font? Get rid of the lil'font-size and stuff the rest into an external css file.
:lol:

I use 1px fonts sometimes :P No kidding.
I've notice the one 1px font-size on some sites but it's usually not associated with any repeating text either. I've been PR0 twice for font-size by Google. [A <font size=1> and an inline style font-size:9px. Had an accident with invisible text too might also be a problem here.] Like everyone outside of Google, I'm just guessing here that it's the font-size: 2px (could be the color too in IE there's a definite hidden text problem). The GoogleBot will usually keep coming back to the front page till you fix whatever has it looping though.

Learning by trail, error and punishment sucks. :( Welcome to the club! :D
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Post by Seraphino »

Hazaa! Google did add me and I did not fix the 52 errors on my page. I am the first result now when you click this link:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=eliminet

I am happy :) Now I just gotta get the program that I have been working on for 3 months out so that I can attract some developers of PHP.
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Post by d3ad1ysp0rk »

Seraphino wrote:Hazaa! Google did add me and I did not fix the 52 errors on my page. I am the first result now when you click this link:
You understand not fixing validation errors is NOT something that you should be proud of. I for one, almost always check the source of web sites I view. ESPECIALLY internet related ones (programming, gaming, etc). You'd attract more potential with an xhtml valid page.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Dudes, I just ran that URL (http://www.eliminet.org) through the validator and at first got a 403 Forbidden error. Then, after it finally got into the validator, it was showing a PHP Parse Error Failure notice...

EDIT | Well crap, why didn't someone say that site was about to be modified. :?:
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Post by Seraphino »

Lol, I am releasing the new look of the site tomorrow. That old one was bulky and way to small. I put up a warning page and yes, I had a parse error at first.

Do not fret :)
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Seraphino wrote:I am the first result now when you click this link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=eliminet
http://www.eliminet.org/ doesn't appear in the search listings for that for me. I could be on a different index node though.

Anyway .. if I didn't know about your website already then what are the chances of me searching for "eliminet"? Zero. It's not a word, so noone would randomly enter it into Google as a search. Being top for a made up word is easy .. but it won't drive any traffic to your site. You need to get up the rankings for popular search terms if you're going to see any difference.
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onion2k wrote:Being top for a made up word is easy .. but it won't drive any traffic to your site. You need to get up the rankings for popular search terms if you're going to see any difference.
NOTE: Google Adwords allows to specify your own keywords for PPC advertising.
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