How do you guys let people know about your trains websites?

[daan]

Mine is in my profile. I also mentioned it in my first post here. It is: http://communities.zeelandnet.nl/data/lionel but since I've only 2 engines running it's not that big. Photo's of my "layout" are just plain track on the atticfloor, but things will change.
Besides that, I love to take a look on other peoples' trainlayouts so websites are a good way to do so.!

[Buckeye Riveter]

You are going to need to look real hard to find the part about trains on my website.[:D][:D][:D]

But here it is:

http://www.geocities.com/algomafishcorps/

[Dave Farquhar]

My site's about life, the universe, and everything, including a little bit about trains, and I doubt many people would call mine a train site, but what I've found is that posting content and letting the search engines find it will eventually get you traffic. The strategy worked for me; I got about 12 hits per day when I set up shop 5 years ago, and today I get 4,000 hits on a slow day.

My train entries are anything but my most popular pages, but this isn't exactly the time of year that people are getting their trains out of the attic and searching for information either.

There are lots of people who sell snake oil to try to get you more traffic and I've tried most of the different strategies, but the best advice I ever found was simply to create good content that people want to read, and eventually the traffic will follow. And if you post more content on a regular or semi-regular basis, some of those people will come back regularly.

I also don't pay much attention to my site stats. You're never satisfied with it. When I got 12 hits per day I wanted a hundred. Now that I get 4,000 I want 100,000. Most people who make websites are usually pretty disappointed when they first find out how many--er, maybe I should say how few--people are reading them.

[nitroboy]

www.mrtrain.com www.mrtrain.com www.mrtrain.com www.mrtrain.com
www.mrtrain.com www.mrtrain.com www.mrtrain.com www.mrtrain.com

Thats how I would do it. Kinda in-your-face though. Gets the point across.

[spankybird]

Hi Rick,

I like your site. [tup] Dog gone, you even have my site on there. How Cool [8D]

I have mine in my profile and on this form there is a web icon. I sometime tell newbies that they can click on it to see the site.



tom

[Anonymous]

I put the link for mine in my profile and in my "signature" on every train site I belong to. I also had metatags in the main page that helped crawlers index it for O Gauge layout, Nickel Plate Road, etc. but I took down most of the pages for redesign and so I removed the tags temporarily.

I have found that joining any web ring is a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Keith:

Just post a link in a thread. If you have some friends you'd like to have visit, email them a link.

Tony

[FJ and G]

Keith,

Nothing. Whenever someone asks for the site; I post it. My new layout will be coooler.

Cheers.

dave

[Anonymous]

Hi Dave,

Your stuff is very impressive, what kind of activities do you do to promote your site?

[FJ and G]

http://davidvergun.tripod.com/

But this cheapy site works only if less than 3 people are on it so you may need to wait an hour or so.

I plan to update it w/progress on my new layout.

Dave Vergun

[Anonymous]

How do you peeps that have trains websites let people know about them?