So you created a site... now what?

[hanji]

I'm curious what you guys do when you launch a site to immediately generate traffic. I'll post my process.. maybe we can compare notes. I do very little for now...

1. Site goes live
2. Submit it to Google, Yahoo and MSN
3. Submit it to Magnol.ia
4. Stumble it
5. If applicable (article, etc) I submit it to Digg
6. Create Squidoo Lense with link to the site (then submit this to Google, Yahoo, MSN, Stumble)
7. Create a Google Alert on the niche for blogs, and hopefully can contribute to a blog post and add a web site link back to the site.
8. wait
9. wait
10. wait

If traffic still sucks and the niche is good (based off of initial payouts and AdSense rev), I'll start a PPC campaign -- usually YSM to get some action.

Now, my technique is 'okay', since I don't get buckets of traffic, and would appreciate any suggestions or advice how to increase my daily traffic.

hanji

[Kerosene]

Great list hanji!

• Create an xml sitemap
• Add sitemap autodiscover to robots.txt
• Use one of my clients high PR pages for a backlink
  

[hanji]

Kerosene Wrote:Great list hanji!

• Create an xml sitemap
• Add sitemap autodiscover to robots.txt
• Use one of my clients high PR pages for a backlink
  

How detailed do your site maps go? Do you break down each product (ie: eBay storefront model), or do you just tell the bots about your categories?

hanji

[Kerosene]

The script I use for eBay stores doesn't use categories, so I just list each product page in the sitemap.

Once I've created a new site and populated my product list, I run a script to generate my sitemap.xml file. Then in the future, if I add more products, I can just run the sitemap script again and it updates the sitemap with the new products.

Google, Yahoo and MSN now all use sitemap autodiscovery via robots.txt, so I figure it's worth doing.

[hanji]

Kerosene Wrote:The script I use for eBay stores doesn't use categories, so I just list each product page in the sitemap.

Once I've created a new site and populated my product list, I run a script to generate my sitemap.xml file. Then in the future, if I add more products, I can just run the sitemap script again and it updates the sitemap with the new products.

Google, Yahoo and MSN now all use sitemap autodiscovery via robots.txt, so I figure it's worth doing.

Hello Kerosene

Do you have any good resources for creating a sitemap.xml script using PHP? Do you use cURL to spider your site.. or something else? I'm curious what a good method would be to pull this from the output of the eBay RSS, etc.

Thanks!
hanji

[Kerosene]

I looked around for a way to spider my own sites... but then I realized that I could use a totally different approach (at least for my eBay sites).

All my 'custom script' eBay stores use PHP to generate the pages from a product list (e.g: "blue widget,red widget,widget display case"). I just wrote a simple little script to use the same list to write the sitemap.xml file.

So (thankfully) I was able to completely avoid the hassle of setting up my own spidering script - which I really wasn't looking forward to doing.

[chaos4u]

hanji,

For a sitemap, I found this site with a link...

http://www.thekidscollegefund.com/index....e-version/

I have not tried it yet and I don't know anything about it. I found it while scouring the net.

[hanji]

chaos4u Wrote:hanji,

For a sitemap, I found this site with a link...

http://www.thekidscollegefund.com/index....e-version/

I have not tried it yet and I don't know anything about it. I found it while scouring the net.

Hello chaos4u.. thanks for writing. This appears to be a public page site map. I think kerosene was talking about sitemap.xml for spiders.

I think I'll follow up with his post and just create a broad term site map based off of categories... and run it as a cron job.

Thanks!
hanji

[mikesleves]

You should have create a site with the useful content,use some CSS,manages the flash coder
and manages the content in the proper ways.