New to web development??

[topcat]

Hi,

I've just published my first site which is based on the Dr. Phil diet www.dr-phil-diet.org.

And was just wondering if anyone could offer me any advice on general promtion issues? I've exchanged links with a few sites. Submitted it to yahoo, google and dmoz. I think I've optimised it for search engine bots? My domain is key word rich. Is there anything else I need to know???

Cheers,

cat

[Nick]

I would take down all advertisements until you have a decent amount of traffic coming to the site. I say that because you're going to want to start to do link exchanges, and many sites won't want to link to you if your site comes off as commercial.

[topcat]

Hi,

I've taken down all the advertising. But left it in my code commented out. Do you think that's ok. I wasn't sure if poeple look that far in?

thanks

cat
Dr. Phil Diet

[MarkB]

I doubt most do (I never do anyway).

[intelliot]

That should be fine. But don't overestimate the effectiveness of keywords in a domain name - it doesn't matter much anymore. Domains with dashes almost never get type-ins.

[Mike]

Domains with dashes almost never get type-ins.

Is that a fact?

[chromate]

I get a lot of type-ins and loads of my domains have dashes in them.

[incka]

My WarInIraq.net domain gets far more type ins than my World-War-2.net domain. World War 2 is searched for far more than War In Iraq too.