How To Start A Tech Site
I like to send out my news releases so the webmaster of the sites
I'm sending it to has to do as little work as possible to post it. I word it so all they
need to do is cut and paste it to their news server. Here is an example of a news release
I sent out to promote my Plextor giveaway:
The Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32 CD Writer is one of
the best CD Writers on the market. Whether you want to just back up your data or create
your own music CD, the Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32 can get the job done. What could be
better? How about getting a brand new one free? Well, The
Tech Zone is giving away a PlexWriter 8/4/32! Find out all the contest details here.
Direct link: http://thetechzone.com/contest.htm
A news post would be most welcome.
Thank you
John "Moto" Chow
www.thetechzone.com
The webmaster receiving this release could simply cut and paste it to his
news or he can add his own little spin on it. I notice that Kyle at HardOCP likes to spin my news release a lot
:).
There are many many sites on the net that will post your news. However,
you will get your biggest traffic boost if your news is posted by these three:
Besides Maximum PC, the above three sites has sent The Tech Zone more
traffic than any others. If you can get VE, Anand and Blues to post your news, you will
see a huge surge in traffic. How do you get them to post your news? Well, your news has to
be news! There is very little chance that Billy at Voodoo Extreme is going to post about
your review of last year's video card.
Another site which can send you an amazing amount of traffic is slashdot.org. However, your news has to be
really unique. They have only posted one article out of the hundreds I've sent them but
when they did post it, they sent me 5,000 people in two hours! It is the goal of every
webmaster to be "Slashdotted".
In addition to news releases, the next thing you have to take care of is
search engines. Search engines are my biggest referrers after bookmarks and Maximum PC. If
you're not getting any traffic from search engine you better figure out how to fix your
search engine meta tags so you do.
I use the Meta Tag Analyzer available at Scrub The Web. It's a great tool to
help you setup your meta tags so search engines will put you higher up in the rankings.
There are really only two stats I keep track of, bookmarks and search
engine hits. Your bookmarks is your reader base. Search engines bring in the new readers.
As long as both keep increasing, you're on your way. It works something like this; Someone
does a search for a piece of hardware and finds your site because you setup your meta tags
so it shows up high in the search results. The visitor comes to your site and likes what
he/she reads and bookmarks your site.
One other thing you can do is exchange links with other sites. The Tech
Zone has a links page where we post other site links as
long as they link to us.
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