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Think of the Big Picture with a Website Promotion Strategy

Richard Tea — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:45:00 +0000

When promoting your website, you may lose yourself in the details, such as advanced search engine optimization techniques or detailed statistics. In such case, you need a high-level strategy for your website promotion if you have not created one yet.

Open for Website Review or Critique!

Richard Tea — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +0000

As some may have seen (or are coming) from our post on SitePoint Forums, we are asking you for your feedback on netParticles!

So, please open up and post your uncensored thoughts! But if you are speechless, here are a few questions we have categorized by website dimensions.

Do not limit yourself to these questions, they are only ideas to get you started. Also, be sure to visit several types of pages such as the front page, the archives, the about page and the sitemap.

Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO Due to Google's Dominance?

Richard Tea — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:06:58 +0000

An anonymous guest author at TechCrunch wrote a long but interesting article on the increasing reliance on the Google algorithm. The article goes by giving an analogy as the sole gatekeeper of the traffic each website seeks and his proposed solution is to regulate this by forcing some transparency in the algorithms.

It was a right decision for him to stay anonymous, since the spur of comments give strong counter-arguments to his thesis, e.g.: social media marketing, other search engines, SEO industry business and most importantly, not revealing what made Google: it's algorithm.

What are you thoughts on this, what would happen if all search engine become "open"?

A Five Phased Approach to Successful Blogging

Richard Tea — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

No, we are not "launching" yet. Today is a milestone as netParticles our web design and development phase is complete and we will start writing and publishing content as opposed to tinkering and finalizing its design and code.

Over the last two months, we have carefully planned and designed this site as a platform to effectively keep you up to date on the latest development in website promotion and marketing. You might wonder how a brand new blog provide website promotion tips for established sites. The answer lies within our experienced professional who will put their writing skills by materializing their knowledge and insights.

Only the Web Design and Development phase is complete? Why don't we simply "launch" as a first post? In our opinion, a successful blog launch and establishment can be broken down into five distinct phases:

Business Plan: Define the purpose of your site, its main audience, its content scope.
Web Design and Development: Design the user interface, code the page and customize your content management system.
Pillar Content Writing: Create a few outstanding articles that will draw new visitors to your website.
Official Launch and Promotion: Launch a promotion and marketing campaign to let the world know about your blog.
Continuous Growth: Feed your reader base by writing at a regular schedule and act on the comments you receive.

This is a rough model on which we will expand on in one of our upcoming posts.

On writing this we have consulted from our own experience but we would also like to highlight these external links which could be useful to you.

BlizzCon Tickets on Sale May 30 at 10 a.m. PDT

Richard Tea — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:14:39 +0000

This is a test post used during the testing phase of the website, since the netParticles authors are going to BlizzCon 2009!

If you were unable to purchase BlizzCon tickets during the first round of ticket sales, we just wanted to remind you that our second batch of BlizzCon 2009 tickets will be going on sale Saturday, May 30. Ticket sales are again scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, so be sure to visit the ticket sales page then for a chance to get yours.

Pre-Launch Re-Post

Richard Tea — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:05:13 +0000

After over three five years of setbacks, we are glad to finally (re)launch the development of netParticles! This website will be providing a wide range of articles, tutorials and resources on website promotion and internet marketing. We will be focusing on how to make the most of the web from a perspective mixed from a bloggers, web publishers, site owners, marketing professional. Since it is mainly web related, we will touching on a vast array of topics ranging from web design to content development.