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Guerilla Marketing & Search Engines?

I started a design company specializing in wedding invites, baby announcements, and corporate design. My website is up (www.milesquaredesign.com) but it's really not registering with yahoo or google. I have also put up some flyers in town and I also found some free internet advertising (like craigslist). I need more ideas to get the word out for my company that are cheap or free! All ideas welcome!!!

Public Comments

1. You need to optimize your site so the search engine spiders can read the content. Just from a first glance, I noticed that your entire site is build of images...you have no text or copy. This is a HUGE mistake. Spiders only pick up copy so they are not reading your site at all. You definitely need copy on your homepage, this is the first page a spider will go to. There are so many more ways to optimize your website. I can't explain them all here, and usually you need to pay someone to do this type of analysis. You can do it yourself though. Just read up on search engine optimization. This website is very helpful: http://searchenginewatch.com/. Hopefully you own the rights to the code so you have the option of optimizing. Also, if you have a marketing budget, spend money doing paid search. An integrated paid and organic search plan will bring you the best results. You don't have to spend a lot with google or yahoo. Just do your research. There are so many different ways to advertise that are effective and cheap, you just need to research and be creative. But your website is very cool and your work is great. Good luck!
2. I also recently started a website, two months ago in fact. I was no-where to be found in either Google or Yahoo. So what I found out was that I had to optimize my site for the search engines. I read a bit about how to do this and it can be very confusing. I found a very handy guide that shows you step-by-step what to do. I am now the #1 result in Google for a product I sell (in only 2 months). I wrote more about it - and can also show you proof that I'm #1 - on my blog below: