5 effective website linking strategies
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A bulleading innovator of sport event management software and online registration, presents an informative slideshow on five effective linking strategies for promoting event websitesTRANSCRIPT
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Compete-At.com
A bulleading innovator of sport event management software and online registration, presents an informative slideshow on five effective linking strategies for promoting event websites
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Five Effective Linking Strategies for Promoting your Event Websites
• Online Communities
• Local Newspapers
• Sponsors’ Websites
• Social Networking Sites
• Blogs
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Online Communities
• There are plenty of websites that are dedicated to specific sports
• These websites tend to include news, message boards, photographs, and schedules of upcoming events
• These websites tend to be visited by enthusiasts, and are a great place to promote your event website so that competitors can find out about your event
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Local Newspapers
• People read newspapers to find out what is going on in their communities, and promoting your event website in a newspaper is a good way to attract competitors to your event
• You can also advertise on newspaper websites to reach a larger audience
• Both places usually have an “Events” section so it is simple to get your website and event listed
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Sponsors’ Websites
• Just as you should have your sponsors’ logos on your event website, your sponsors can provide a link to your website on their own website
• A relationship with a sponsor should be a partnership and both should benefit from each other
• This is a perfect way to promote your website and show who your sponsors are
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Social Networking Sites• Social networking websites are popular
these days, and utilizing them to promote your event website will bring many people to your event
• Uploading videos from your event to YouTube.com, linking your website on MySpace.com, and even putting your website on Twitter.com are all useful places to look
• There are thousands of social networking websites
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Blogs
• Blogs are a great way to promote your website and events
• There are a lot of sports specific blogs that exist
• Commenting on a blog or getting a blogger to mention your website and event will allow you to reach more individuals
• Creating your own blog to promote your organization and its events is another way to advertise your website
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Useful Links and Resources
• http://techblog.stratum.net/tag/linking-strategies/ : A good website for linking strategies
• http://www.marketingexperiments.com/ppc-seo-optimization/linking-strategies-tested.html#3b: Another good website for linking strategies
• http://www.webraydian.com/content/view/543/1/: A resource for blogs and linking
• http://www.blogcatalog.com: A directory of blogs on the Internet
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About Compete-At
• If you would like to learn more about online event management or online registration, please visit www.compete-at.com