Squeez Media

Getting Traffic to Your Site

Matt Woodard — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:40:43 +0000

Optimize your website to be search-engine friendly. Submit it to various search engines and directories. In addition to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and MSN, it’s worth submitting to lesser known web directories. If your website is listed in as many places as possible, it can boost your rankings in major search engines as well.
Spread the word about your affiliate program by submitting it to affiliate program directories and contacting the owners of related websites.
Create a links page that will contain the links to other non-competing websites in the same industry. Contact the owners of other websites with your proposal to exchange links. You will add their link to your links page, and they will link to your website in return.
Post in forums. Visit the online discussion forums where people in your target market like to gather. Post useful responses to people’s questions, and include a link to your website at the end of your post next to your name. Although you ultimately want to get your sig file with the link to your site seen as often as possible, don’t overdo it with your posts, otherwise other forumites won’t respect you, and therefore won’t visit your site.
Comment on blogs. Visit other people’s blogs on the topic related to your website. Most blogs allow you to add comments about the issues being discussed. Add insightful comments about the blog topics, and leave your website link. Your comment and your link will permanently remain on the blog website.
Create an e-mail “signature” – your name, your website address and a short tag-line describing the main benefit of your site. Set your e-mail program to automatically add your signature to every e-mail that you send.
Look into traffic exchanges. There are many types of traffic exchanges but the idea is the same – you team up with other webmasters, and they send you traffic in exchange for you sending them traffic. Search the web for “traffic exchange” to find those services.
Create something of value that people will pass around. It can be a report with useful information that you allow people to give away. It can also be some kind of cool and unusual web-page that people will want to e-mail to all their friends. Of course, the pass-around item will include your advertisement and your link, spreading the word about your website. This is a “viral” strategy.
Write articles on the topic related to your website, and include a link to your site in your author bio. Submit your articles to article directories, and allow people to publish your article in their newsletters and websites. Your articles will spread around the web like wildfire. People will read them and visit your website. The best part is that people who read your articles will regard you as an expert, and they will be much more likely to buy from you when they go to your website. How’s that for a free publicity?
Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they’ll be reminded to revisit your web site. Submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet.A news letter!
Start your own online discussion community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community, they will regularly return to communicate with others.
Advertise your site at free classified ad sites. There are many of these on the net. Some of the more popular ones are craigslist, inetgiant, freeadvertisingforum, and gumtree.
Join free safe-lists. These are lists of subscribers who have opted-in to send and receive emails to each other. You can instantly reach potentially thousands of people by sending out emails, and you don’t have to worry about receiving spam complaints either because everyone on the list has opted-in to receive emails.
Getting a myspace page could also increase your site traffic because hundreds of people will see it.
Constantly update content on your web-page, so having a news section is a great deal for search engines especially.
Update your Facebook status to let your friends know everytime you update your blog and create a Facebook fan page. Your friend’s friends will see when they join the fan page or comment on your status.

DVSN Clothing

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:34:37 +0000

DVSN (Division) Clothing is a brand that recognizes the individuality of every person, or group of people. DVSN is a new upcoming label with some very artistic designs.

The site entails a custom slideshow gallery using jQuery on the home page. A blog for keeping their clients up to date on the brand and current events. This site also incorporates a fully functional shopping cart and CRM. With the ability to process credit cards and manage fulfillment all through the website. The site also features social media publishing with all blog posts and automated image sizing for product images.

Who Is Misfit?

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:48:58 +0000

This is the Official site of the Hip Hop artist Misfit. The site brings his music, photos, and videos to the web and allows viewers, fans and his audience to engage with him on a whole new level. We built the site using Drupal CMS for the freedom of customization.

Misfit is everything you think he could never be. Born in Long Beach, California and raised in the inner-city, Misfit depicts both a beach-boy/street-savvy. His passion for music and life experiences give a refreshing perspective into the new generation. Misfit is the most unlikely candidate to break expectations and become the new underdog champion.

Equipped with catchy rhymes, comic wit, and authentic swag, he paints a brutally-honest portrait of his life. As an 80′s baby/90′s screw-up, Misfit (born Ryan Lee) was subjected to adversity from very early on. Raised primarily by his young mother, he sought father-like leadership from the streets, quickly landing him in constant trouble. At the tender age of 7, he witnessed a Snoop Dogg music video shoot from the handlebars of his best friend’s bike. Seeing Snoop on the rooftop of the world famous VIP Records, with the whole city behind him, made it clear to Misfit what wanted to do. He went home that day and wrote his first rap song…and never stopped.

Mike Dillard

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:38:25 +0000

Mike has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to being a self made business man. He has started numerous successful companies such as Better Networker, Magnetic Sponsoring, and the new Elevation Group. The website we built for Mike incorporates information about each of his companies, and a personal blog of Mike’s interests, thoughts, and ideas.

Mike Dillard need is personal blog updated. Mike is an accomplished, entrepreneur, internet marketing guru, and just an overall successful man. He has went from broke to millionaire in less than 2 years. He has created an abundance of informational products to help self employed home business owners succeed online.

Couch Connect – iPhone App

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:23:33 +0000

CouchConnect is a dynamic social application that connects you with friends for an interactive TV watching experience. It’s an online community for those that share your enthusiasm for the latest shows and events. CouchConnect is the only site of its kind that enables you to sit on “digital couches” and chat about any of your favorite programs with old friends and new acquaintances – all in real-time. With CouchConnect, the world is your living room!

We created a temporary site for the client to capture the interest of users once the app goes live.

Bloodbath Project / Cast Shadow

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:16:13 +0000

A Southern California clothing, art, and lifestyle company. Specializing in urban street wear and hats. The client needed to bring their brands and creative designs online.

Our name is meant to be remembered. By definition it is aggressive and violent. By design it is clean and simple. Think of it as a balance between opposites.

Bloodbath is made up of two words.
Blood means life, family, passion, sacrifice, and martyrdom.

Bath means cleanliness, being fully immersed in what you do, as an enjoyable meditation.

Our brand encompasses these aspects and strives to create quality clothing for people that want something different. Many brands claim a lifestyle, for us it’s just style. It’s not a way of life, its simply clothing created for those that really live. A mixture of statement, sentiment, and a story take part of every piece we make.

Michelle Woodard Photogrphy

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:00:05 +0000

Michelle Woodard is an inspiring designer and photographer. She specializes in everything from Senior Photos, to Families and Weddings. If you have a special event or wedding she is sure to capture the moment.

Michelle came to us with a simple need in mind, she needed to display her work and offer portrait packages on her website. We creating her a custom slideshow using jquery on the home page, as well as additional gallery areas with a lightbox for other images. The site also lets her blog about her work and keep her viewers engaged.

ArtistiCreation Clothing

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:09:45 +0000

ArtistiCreation Clothing is a clothing brand out of California. They came to me with a need to drastically improve their website, and how their viewers could be more interactive. They had a creative brand that needed a push to reach out and touch their desired audience. The solution? A dynamic site that introduced automated publishing to social media sites, more involved article commenting, and a custom newsletter system that would allow them to keep their clients updated.

The name speaks for itself. A company that’s unconventional, with a purpose of attracting individuals wanting to be a part of something unique. A self-made lifestyle brand that produces according to how we live and what we feel. “Original Product of the Mind”

ArtIs Gallery

Matt Woodard — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:02:05 +0000

The client needed a way to portray the schools many areas of service and instruction, as well as students art. We developed a wordpress website for the client, with a custom jQuery gallery. The site also incorporates a 3rd party store for the client to have the ability to sell products such as prints, t-shirts, etc.

ArtIs Gallery is an art school, studio, gallery and pop-up shop. Yup, that’s right – all in one. Primarily an art school, we offer classes for kids from first grade up to college students. Founded in 2001, ArtIs is proud to be creating for 9 years strong.