Market with Actinic V8

[Haydock Music]

Greetings,

Can you give me all your suggestions about marketing my website with V8 .

What is the best way to market my site considering i have no expierience in this field what so ever?

Are there any parts of V8 that can help with search engines?

Are affilliate networks a good idea and are they easy to integrate with V8?

Thanks in advance for all input as i am sure you are aware that you can have the best looking site in the world but if nobody finds it it is usless!

Regards
Alistair

[Darren B]

Hi try searching the forums fors SEO and adwords and all the things you might use to let people know about you site. The information is here and people are unlikely to repeat advice given.

Also search the internet, ermm webmaster forums might help

[PeterThake]

Try Froogle! Free, effective and Actinic does a neat Froogle export for you Adwords are the next thing I would investigate.

I would avoid any 'I will get your site listed in top in Google' offers since the methods can be dubious (ie could backfire on you in longer run) and the costs are high. IMHO if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.

For my first year I also subscribed to a service that automatically submitted my site each month to loads of search engines. Was cheap (about £30 pa) but how beneficial this was I do not know! Not worth it in the longer run since your site will get indexed by searhc engine 'spiders'.

In long term I think a good strategy is to get some good keyword-rich content on your site. Make full use of the keywords meta fields in Actinic.

btw I am no expert by any means, if you get any good tips do pass them on!

[TraceyHand]

just a quick note, Alistair.
Check your website in Firefox because the homepage outline around your main text fragment is in the middle of the text when viewed in FF.

Just thought I'd mention it

[Jan]

Froogle is now called Groogle products - you can log in here

http://www.google.com/base/help/sellongoogle.html

It's also worth creating google and yahoo site maps, again they are free and so you can't loose by doing that.

Regards,

[jont]

Try Froogle! Free, effective and Actinic does a neat Froogle export for you

Note that recent changes require you to have one page per product for the submission. There is a long thread about the recent Froogle changes and worth reading for tips and ides.

Actinic is quite good out of the box at SEO... as Darren point out search the forum.. especially the other business and ecommerce boards as these have a wealth of info and ideas if you want to take it to the next level yourself by fine tuning what is already provided.