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As someone who runs a magazine site www.in2town.co.uk and someone who has worked on both sides of the coin which includes in a public relations company and working as a writer for a glossy magazine, i would say you are doing a good job with your marketing by working with sites for reviews.

By offering review products, you are getting the attention of magazine sites and if they accept your product to review and like it and give you a good write up with a link then you will gain customers.

We receive loads of emails each day asking us to review products, we even had one on friday who offered us money to review the product but we are very choosy on what we review.

I would also suggest that you look for a site where you can offer them a prize, and here is me putting my pr hat on. I would suggest you look for a site where you can run a competition such as a deserving mum etc as this would give you lots of exposure.

If you need any advice then pm me, but look out for special dates and try and get websites to take on your product as a prize as well as getting other sites to review your product.

The more sites that review your product and give you a good review, you will be able to say that your product has been in that publication on your site

i would use twitter, use the hash tag about the site and the products, find out if people have used the product and start to get a buz about it. look out for any celebrities who may have used the product and then tweet them, see if they answer.

Talking from a PR background, if you can get a buz about your products and your site then life will become easier.

Hi i am researching the following site http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ and i would like to know what keywords they are using to gain traffic and i would like to know what tools i need to use to research how they are achieving great success with google.

i am new to the semoz tools so i would like help in using them to study this site and other sites, can anyone please let me know what i need to do and what tools i need to use to research this site and find the links to the site and how they are achieving great success

many thanks

This is very interesting ryan. If you have a number of articles on one article site, would this not increase your link juice to your site.

With reference to earning money on hub pages i and friends of mine have submitted lots of articles on the site and have never earned a single penny.

Hi i am working on my site at the moment www.in2town.co.uk and i am adding new sections and was thinking about buying domain names that best describe that section and which people would remember.

so for example i am looking at adding a tenerife magazine to my site and would like to know if it would be wise to buy a domain name for example tenerife magazine and then have it directed to the section of my site.

would this benefit my site in any way and would google allow this. instead of having in2town.co.uk and then tenerife  magazine after it, sorry cannot find the slash as i am on a spanish keyborad at the moment, i would like to have something like tenerifemagazine.co..uk etc

If anyone can give me advice on this then that would be great.

also can anyone let me know if this is a wise idea or not, to have sub domain names on my main site. i would like to know if i had tenerifemagazine under the in2town domain name would it slow the site down or should i consider building a brand new site just for that and then making people aware that it comes under the in2town umbrella

many thanks

hi, is anyone having problems with rank tracker. I have been trying to use it but it comes up with problems

I have noticed a lot of this happening where sites that are not even properly built yet over taking other sites. I noticed a site the other week that had a tiny bit of text saying new website coming soon but it was on page one of google and it was number two in google, i was shocked. But when i checked out the links it had, i could not understand and think it is a bit underhand. they had hundreds and hundreds of links.

I also saw this happen last year and the site ten months later was still not built but was ranking much higher than other sites that had better content

Hi i am trying to understand how services such as pingler.com help your site. I think i understand about the google ping service which tells google that you have updated a page but how does pingler work.

Pingler claims that it sends traffic to your site but i do not understand this.

Any help would be great

Really like what you have done, i will look at doing something similar, what i knocked up is as follows http://www.in2town.co.uk/Bloggers-Write-For-In2town

but yours is much better so i will have to work on it

Thank you simon, i will watch that now and have a read. I have been interested about videos but not really got a clue on how to edit etc. I have bought myself a podcast setup, which i bought for myself and my daughter who is at college, so i will start to learn that and see how that goes.

what is the ideal setting on the crawler. i have been wondering about this for some time.

I am looking at ideas at the moment, we have been getting a large number of guest bloggers wanting to write for our site but i have to say we are turning down around 90% of the articles as they are low quality.

So i am just wondering, to attract high quality articles, should we carry on offering a link in the articles or offer them revenue share by asking for their google adsense code and putting it somewhere on the page.

If we did offer this, how would we impliment this, we work on a joomla website and have read about rev share but not sure how we do this correctly.

Would like to know people's thoughts on this

thanks for that, i use http://gtmetrix.com/ but i am trying to find out about how long it takes from section to section as i have been told it is slow moving around from my site while loading the home page on my site differs during the day. sometimes it loads in three seconds and sometimes it loads in one second. i am sorting out a new larger server but need to check on the navigation of my site

Hi, i am looking for the best theme clubs out there for wordpress, i am looking for clubs that offer support and also ones that have a forum that you can share ideas as well as get support.

any suggestions would be great

Hi, just doing some seo on my site and i am not sure if i have my robots file set correctly. i use joomla and my website is www.in2town.co.uk.

here is my robots file, does this look correct to you

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/

many thanks

thanks for this. been having for a long time trouble with a site map. the reason is, i use joomla 1.5 and i am not sure the best way to have it set or which is the best tool to use.

my articles change all the time and not sure how many of the articles i should have in the site map or to have just the sections.

on an old site i had all the articles, well up to 2,000 and that gain me a lot of traffic but with the new site i took that down

Not really looking for short cuts, i am looking for tools that will help, like a mechanic will look for new tools to use to fix cars. I receive so many emails each day from companies about new tools that are out there and you never know which are good ones and which are bad ones.

I have never bought a seo tool as i only buy things that are recommended

i thank you for your professional comments Robert as always. I am not a big fan of tools and pingler is the only one that i tried, which i am not calling a day on the service.

We update the site all the time, bringing our readers news and gossip but i am going to re-focus some of the stuff that we do.

With reference to Chris Menke comments, i am not sure what the point was in making a comment on this posting and i am not going to give him the satisfaction and talking more about his post but i would like to thank you Robert.

hi, i have now sorted out the www.in2town.co.uk and the in2town.co.uk and also the canonical tag, i hope i have done it right.

I am going to start a new post as i have come across a few problems since i have done this which includes the meta description not showing according to a seo tool even though i can see it.

many thanks for your help

thanks for this jorgen juel, i had the canonical put on today and a redirect and since then the meta description has vanished, i need to speak to the person who done it as when i clear my cache it appears again but when i move to another page and go back again it vanishes.

I will sort out the two canonical links now and see what happens. thank you for letting me know where they are. i will keep you updated

Hi I am looking for advice to get my new articles out there and my news stories. I would like to know if i should ping my articles and news stories each time i write a new one and if so which ping services do you recommend and what do they really do.

Can anyone recommend any other services that i could use to promote my new articles and news stories to gain more traffic.

Many thanks

is there a tool that will allow you to enter all the ping sites that are availabe and then enter the details like pingomatic and enter the url that you want to ping which will then ping all the ping site that you want.

would love to pm you and learn more about going direct to advertisers instead of affliate sites.so where the column is, where the related items is, i should remove that.

when i remove the 2 column it means i only have one google adsense on the page, would you put the google adsense anywhere else on the page