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Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:35 pm
by TheTraderOutlet
Hello everyone. i have a question to ask here at Devnetwork Forums. i started a Auction Website and im trying to spread the word about it but advertising isnt in the budget at the moment. what can i do to help create traffic?
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:50 pm
by pickle
I'm not entirely convinced this isn't SPAM. Am I wrong?
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:18 pm
by daedalus__
well, he did ask a question. but, i did click the link.
im wondering if this is even marketable? ebay does a fine job.
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:31 pm
by Benjamin
daedalus__ wrote:ebay does a fine job.
That is certainly debatable.
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:21 pm
by Bill H
I'm with astions and pickle. I did not click the link.
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:31 pm
by wpsd2006
nice looking sites there
well dont know other tools
try google hehe there is google adwords you can choose the budget yourself
ofcourse the expensive one will get you on top people will easily see it while searching
and click to your site
use primitive method mouth to mouth chat to chat heheh
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:10 am
by Chris Corbyn
I think in order to crack something like eBay you need a huge amount of revenue behind you to market this... by the sound of it, you have none.
It's pretty unlikely you're going to get it off the ground by posting links on forums. I'm also not sure how many people find eBay (for example) by searching google for it... it's one of those household names. The most effective way to get your target audience (the everyday public) to know about this is going to be TV, Radio and Newspaper, but then that's very expensive and highly regional.
Good luck either way!
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:35 am
by Christopher
It's not spam anymore.
Feel free to give constructive advice on free and low cost ways to drive traffic to websites.

Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:31 am
by josh
arborint wrote:Feel free to give constructive advice on free and low cost ways to drive traffic to websites.

You could post questions about how to increase traffic, so cleverly disguising a link in your signature. Oh wait you already did that? hmmm.... Didn't make you an overnight millionaire? Get outta here...

Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:52 am
by TheTraderOutlet
This Isnt Spam Just a introduction and a hello to everybody here at DevNetwork Forums
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:22 am
by matthijs
If the only thing you are posting is a Hello and a link to your site then that is spam.
(and your link should - again - be removed)
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:49 am
by onion2k
arborint wrote:Feel free to give constructive advice on free and low cost ways to drive traffic to websites.

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but there aren't any really. If your site appeals to a specific niche demographic then you might get somewhere with the likes of Digg or Facebook, and if you're a talented and prolific writer you might get somewhere with a blog if it's picked up by a traditional media outlet, but aside from those you have no choice but to build your brand in the usual way - with a big advertising spend. You can't do it on the cheap. If you could then everyone would.
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:49 am
by Eran
Hey man, if you really want to promote your site I heard there are great forum bots that can register automatically and spam for you. check out it if you're interested

Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:38 pm
by Christopher
TheTraderOutlet wrote:This Isnt Spam Just a introduction and a hello to everybody here at DevNetwork Forums
Hello and welcome. Sorry for the slightly rough introduction, but we (like everyone else) are inundated with spam.
If you are looking for some specifics about promoting your site, I think you can get some helpful advice here. Probably the best thing would be to let us know what you have done so far. Then people can comment on that and us it a starting point for giving advice.
Re: Hello everybody. New Website here..
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:55 pm
by josh
Well I think before any marketing plan you have to identify what your product is exactly, what value it is supposed to provide, how it is providing that value, who you are trying to provide that value to. Maybe we could start by discussing what sorts of pains your product / service is supposed to remedy. Once we identify that I think we'd be much more inclined to help