Your Overlooked Army of Site Promoters: Your Chums and their Sites
Just consider it for a moment. Think of the group of friends you have had over the years...your best friends, the old acquaintances, all the folks you knew in university, high-school pals, chums at church, part-time Internet marketers at your work (and don't be fooled; there are more there than you think).
Just consider all the people close to you that have websites. Actually, begin making a record of these people. You would astonish yourself after compiling this list, because you will find that there are TONS of people around you with sites in various stages of growth.
Some of these people may work on them every day and others may have let them fall by the wayside. There's going to be a few that lost interest in their sites and may actually not mind handing the keys over to you.
If you actually did make a list, start looking up these sites and take note of their pros and cons. Do any of them have PageRank from Google? I've done this and it can be pretty surprising.
One of my friends inherited a site from someone and proceeded to build it bigger than before. After several years, he sort of lost interest in it, and stopped paying his hosting bill. But this site had a page rank of 7!
After asking him if I could purchase it from him, he said no, because he hoped to bring it back up again one day. I then offered to pay for the hosting if he would let me put my Adsense code on all 3000 of his pages. He agreed.
Some of my friends have agreed to give me one-way links to my sites. Most know nothing of SEO and those links can really help out. They are of varying PR, but my one friend's PR7 is what I prize the most.
There are several similar opportunities among your group of friends that you might be missing. You might be surprised if you thought about how many of your close friends are actually programmers. Start talking to them of internet marketing and all the cool tools in this industry and see if they start coming up with ideas of their own. You will find that most of them already have a few tools they're working on but just don't know how to market them.
Open your eyes to the possibilities. You might just find some gold nuggets in your own backyard.
About the authorS. Bremner is an internet marketing consultant in canada. He runs Organized Traffic Ltd and consults on search engine marketing in canada and website marketing in Ontario.
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