2007-03-23 19:24:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Search Engine Optimization
Small Business Marketing Strategy: Target the up-and-coming search engines
While Google still rules the roost when it comes to Internet search engines, and Yahoo is firmly entrenched in second spot, a number of new start-ups are hoping to give them a run for their money. And a good small business marketing strategy would be to check them out and see how you can make them work for your site!
Some of the new up-and-comers include:
Powerset : ( www.powerset.com ) A "natural language" search engine
Hakia : ( www.hakia.com ) A "meaning-based" search engine
Wikia : ( www.wikia.com ) A "community-based" search engine
ChaCha : ( www.chacha.com ) A "social networking-based" search engine
Snap : ( www.snap.com ) A search engine that offers visual previews
It's a smart small business marketing strategy to continue optimizing for the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engines as they are by far and away the most popular -- but niche search engines could provide new opportunities to reach your market. Be sure to check them out!
2007-03-24 03:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by answer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are few my suggestions:
1. Start submitting to search engines and directories (when you've done this basic step, you would be surprised that the effect is sooner than you expected)
2. Start joining forums (related to your business) where you could freely discuss about your stuff. However, do not promote directly, be able to give forum members something that they need. Speak of benefits.
3. Try to exchange links with complement sites.
4. Try reading more web marketing stuff and freely ask experts in forums for you to get plenty of ideas and avoid marketing pitfalls.
Mary
http://gbwatch.com/
2007-03-25 20:20:58 · answer #2 · answered by mary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the type of ads you need to run LocalGrunts.com is a free site and Craigslist is another. No cost, can't beat that.
2007-03-24 04:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by tommyfourth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
VFlyer
http://www.vflyer.com
Here are the largest sites online to place free classified advertising.
http://classifieds.yahoo.com/ Alexa Rank: 1
https://www.google.com/base/
http://classifieds.myspace.com Alexa Rank: 5
http://expo.live.com/ Alexa Rank: 8
http://www.craigslist.org/ Alexa Rank: 28
http://adlandpro.com/ Alexa Rank: 1,298
http://www.backpage.com Alexa Rank: 1,876
http://www.usfreeads.com Alexa Rank: 3,121
http://www.oodle.com/ Alexa Rank: 5,501
http://www.adpost.com/ Alexa Rank: 6,906
http://www.FreeAdvertisingForum.com 12,025
http://www.sell.com/ Alexa Rank: 13,471
http://www.InetGiant.com Alexa Rank: 21,082
http://www.adquest3d.com/ Alexa Rank: 22,252
http://www.recycler.com/ Alexa Rank: 23,996
http://www.chooseyouritem.com/ Alexa Rank: 19,569
http://www.domesticsale.com/ Alexa Rank: 24,207
http://epage.com/ Alexa Rank: 24,834
http://free-advertising-blog.com/index.php Alexa Rank: 26,048
http://www.ClassifiedsForFree.com Alexa Rank: 40,792
http://postaroo.com/ Alexa Rank: 43,471
http://www.TheFlyer.com Alexa Rank: 134,577
http://www.ClassifiedAds.com Alexa Rank: 143,204
2007-03-24 02:21:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to www.vicead.com and look for a link that really does provide ways to get what you are looking for, I really dont know where else you can find it. Just go there and give it a shot.
2007-03-23 19:50:31 · answer #5 · answered by compguy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get free traffic you your blog or website.
http://thewinners.blogap.hop.cliclbank.net
2007-03-23 19:51:37 · answer #6 · answered by Jerry O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe try www.adsavailable.com
2007-03-24 00:20:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.kingoffer.com
2007-03-24 01:12:07 · answer #8 · answered by madmilker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋