Make Your Presence Known.

There are many ways to  promote your website, some of the more popular ways are, link exchanging with other websites, search engine submission, and paid advertising.  I recently tried helping a friend promote his business/website in a way I had never thought of or even tried before, promoting locally by using search engines. By promoting your business locally online you can capture some new clients who are looking for your products/services in your very own neighborhood.  [+]

Free Article Directories for Traffic, Worth It?

Article Directories, Yay or Nay? I recently tried using an article directory to drive some traffic to SharkFOO. An article directory is a website designed to help websites get free content, or for authors to get traffic for writing. Basically what I did was go to EzineArticles and submitted the first part of my How to Make a Website Popular for other websites to use. In return for writing this content for [+]

Traffic Experiment, Ep2

A few days ago I wrote about a few blog promotion techniques I would try, to see if they would get me any more traffic. Turns out they did, slightly. Here's a list of the things I tried. Stumbleupon - Submitting my site and giving it a review has not brought me any traffic in the past 2 weeks. Not one visitor. I'm not sure if thats because it hasn't been included into the [+]

Traffic Experiment, Ep1

I'm going to try a little experiment here on sharkfoo. I will see if creating a post just once per day will produce a steady increase in daily traffic, hopefully it will. Another one of my goals is to get 500 visitors checking the site, once a day, in the next 30 days. Also, I will not spend a dime for advertising for my blog. This could be a little tough, [+]

How-To Make a Popular Website, Part 2 of 2

This is a continuation of the first post.  It contains several tips on how to make your website more popular.  We'll continue with some more pointers below. Hot Girly pics, no I'm not kidding. Who doesn't like to look at beautiful women. Granted there's nothing intellectually provoking about a beautiful babe barely covered by a bikini, it will keep a majority of your visitors happily clicking away looking for more. Humor, being a likable character. Laughter is the [+]

How-To Make a Popular Website, Part 1 of 2

What makes a website popular? This is a question I ask myself every time I come up with a new idea for a website. This post is to serve as sort of a list of things I find help to make a site popular and increase traffic. After all thats why we make websites right? To be popular, make money, or maybe its just to have a hobby. I've been [+]