[Embermage]

I've tried everything from banner exchanges to search engines, but nothing has seemed to work. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear 'em .

Thanks,

[MacmanX]

The web is pretty saturated with content like this. You need an angle. Perhaps a local spin would be good. You could plaster your town with fliers or something like that. Become a local hero. It is really hard to break into the web at this point. Also, don't forget how small businesses get the word out about themselves. Personal contact is important. Build your business one person at a time. Good luck and have fun!

Cheers!

[fobside]

heres an idea that might work. just steal something funny like a funny picture that the majority of people havent seen and stick it in your directory.

for instance, if youre at: www.blah.com you stick picture.jpg in and you have www.blah.com/picture.jpg

i guarantee you, a lot of people will go back one directory to see what this blah.com is and then you got visitors.

[Demonhood]

you have a robots.txt file?

when you have one, the major search engines (google most prolifically) will index your site more often (and deeper). i didn't have one on my site for the longest time, and my site went unnoticed. now that i have one, i get at least 3 hits from search engines every day (even though they're all looking for nude russell crowe, but that's another matter).

[fobside]

i didnt write the <url> tags when i wrote a url and it just came out as a link. is that something new?
www.apple.com testing without tags.

[neophilia]

Webmonkey has great info on this..search engine placement and whatnot:
http://go.hotwired.com/webmonkey/01/...tml/eg20010606

Go and worship them, for they know many a great thing.
-peter, http://peter.neophiliadesign.com/

[funkboy]

The best way to get hits is to really specialize in something. One website I've done really has nothing special in terms of layout or look - but it has some updaters for a 3D program that are tough to impossible to find anywhere else.

Find something you're interested in, put up something that you yourself can't find other places (this will take the most thinking) . Lifting headlines from other sites won't attract much of an audience, especially when places like MacCentral even allow you to put a snippet of code in your page that will embed the latest headlines from the site right onto your own site.

If you really love Macs, try to do something you haven't seen much elsewhere - reliable benchmarks for a variety of processors would be my suggestion!

Also, never have things (especially on the front page) that take too long to load - complex cgi scripts or php code executing before anything appears in the browser window, and thus making the website visitor wait, is a death bell for a site that doesn't already have a huge following.

[crazycylon]

This might sound stupid but did you use meta tags before sending to search engines.


<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="What you want to say you sight is about">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Any keyword you want just separate each with comma">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="TITLE" CONTENT="What title to you want.">
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="60 DAYS">
<META NAME="CLASSIFICATION" CONTENT="What categories do you wish to show up in.">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL">