So, my question is how do people get the word out that their website or blog exists? Do blogger invest in ads? Is is just through word of mouth? Or searching Google? I'm just curious how does a website build it's popularity. Do you just put your website up on the web and hope people find it? I know you can make your site SEO friendly, create sitemaps and such but what other techniques are used?
Thanks, John
The big thing is, build a good site! have good quality relevant content. SEO and page linking will help. Most search traffic comes from Google imho. I would suggest http://www.google.com/webmasters/start Submite a sitemap would be high on my todo list. Also Use relevant and unique - page titles, Friendly urls and relevant H1 tags
Hope that helps