Ideas or Links for FREE Advertising ?

missj040 · 09-12-2005, 10:19 PM

I have an Online Dating website soon to be going LIVE! hopefully by the end of this week ... but i wanna advertise the forum for a while ...

Any good ideas or links to places where i can get some free/cheap advertising ???

StephanieCordray · 09-12-2005, 10:53 PM

well, there are a lot of those type sites on www.linkexchanged.com. I haven't gotten a lot of use from it for my personal sites but it's really not that bad if you wade through the exchange requests.

Winterchase · 09-13-2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by StephanieCordray

well, there are a lot of those type sites on www.linkexchanged.com. I haven't gotten a lot of use from it for my personal sites but it's really not that bad if you wade through the exchange requests.

I looked at that site but they didn't have a category that even comes close to relating to what I do. Wouldn't that make a difference, or is it there just to increase the number of crawler credits? If someone is looking for a Nikon camera and my site comes up in his search, what good does that do me?

I have another question: a friend and I exchanged links. But, when I key in my name on Google, his site comes up before mine, although my name is bolded. That doesn't make sense.

StephanieCordray · 09-13-2005, 01:29 PM

Well, the site I linked above doesn't have a lot for my sites either but it will have quite a few for the member who began this thread because there are a lot of similar sites there.

As to the question of your friend's site coming up before yours in search, he most likely has more inbound links to his site than you have for yours. I'm not sure how much bolding counts these days. It never counted for a lot before and may count for even less now. However, it is one of the tricks to make sure you get indexed in search engines for keywords you use.

Winterchase · 09-13-2005, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by StephanieCordray

Well, the site I linked above doesn't have a lot for my sites either but it will have quite a few for the member who began this thread because there are a lot of similar sites there.

As to the question of your friend's site coming up before yours in search, he most likely has more inbound links to his site than you have for yours. I'm not sure how much bolding counts these days. It never counted for a lot before and may count for even less now. However, it is one of the tricks to make sure you get indexed in search engines for keywords you use.

Does it matter if the sites you're linked to relate to each other? And are you saying I should go in and bold all my key words, of which there are about sixty?

StephanieCordray · 09-13-2005, 04:51 PM

It depends on the type of site to be honest. You said yourself there wasn't much there for your site so you know what you'd like to link exchange with, correct? I mean you can indiscriminately linked to anything if all you are looking for is inbound links but at the same time you take away from your site when you do.

I don't think it really matters as far as search engines are concerned. They(search engines) say so but I haven't seen an appreciable difference in what/who gives sites inbound or outbound links as far as attaining page rank or search engine placement. I don't think the bigger ones police that sort of thing at all anymore regardless of their claims. They have bigger fish to catch in the form of revenues from advertising. I haven't seen a google dance in months if that's any indication.

Winterchase · 09-13-2005, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by StephanieCordray

...I haven't seen a google dance in months if that's any indication.

I've seen a lot of weird things in my life, but never a google dance. In fact, I've never actually seen a google.

Is it sort of like snipe hunting? Or submarine races?

StephanieCordray · 09-13-2005, 09:24 PM

LOL... well.. I'll let someone else explain that to you because I really understand it on its most basic levels.

Winterchase · 09-15-2005, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by StephanieCordray

LOL... well.. I'll let someone else explain that to you because I really understand it on its most basic levels.

Found it! Don't understand half of it, but I found it.

http://dance.efactory.de/

StephanieCordray · 09-15-2005, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Winterchase

Found it! Don't understand half of it, but I found it.

http://dance.efactory.de/

Me, either, but apparently we are supposed to be slaves to it, tehe.

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09-12-2005, 10:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
StephanieCordray Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 1,017	well, there are a lot of those type sites on www.linkexchanged.com. I haven't gotten a lot of use from it for my personal sites but it's really not that bad if you wade through the exchange requests.

09-13-2005, 01:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
StephanieCordray Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 1,017	Well, the site I linked above doesn't have a lot for my sites either but it will have quite a few for the member who began this thread because there are a lot of similar sites there. As to the question of your friend's site coming up before yours in search, he most likely has more inbound links to his site than you have for yours. I'm not sure how much bolding counts these days. It never counted for a lot before and may count for even less now. However, it is one of the tricks to make sure you get indexed in search engines for keywords you use.

09-13-2005, 04:51 PM	#6 (permalink)
StephanieCordray Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 1,017	It depends on the type of site to be honest. You said yourself there wasn't much there for your site so you know what you'd like to link exchange with, correct? I mean you can indiscriminately linked to anything if all you are looking for is inbound links but at the same time you take away from your site when you do. I don't think it really matters as far as search engines are concerned. They(search engines) say so but I haven't seen an appreciable difference in what/who gives sites inbound or outbound links as far as attaining page rank or search engine placement. I don't think the bigger ones police that sort of thing at all anymore regardless of their claims. They have bigger fish to catch in the form of revenues from advertising. I haven't seen a google dance in months if that's any indication.

09-13-2005, 09:24 PM	#8 (permalink)
StephanieCordray Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 1,017	LOL... well.. I'll let someone else explain that to you because I really understand it on its most basic levels.