Sadly noone can tell you how to market your site - just point you in the right direction!

There are known methods which can work very effectively, and generally speaking the more time you put in marketing your site, the better it will do. Unfortunately what works for one site, one affiliate or one one niche might not work for another.

These are some of the most methods.
PPC advertising, google, yahoo etc.
Other Paid directory/site advertising
SEO - getting high natural listings in search engines. (Use niche sites and niche terms!)
Off line advertising - Newspapers, posters, cards etc
Word of mouth & free blogging sites.
Banner/Traffic Programs
TGP/MGP sites.

All of these are a host topics in themselves. Speak to other afifliates (if you can) about what works for them and what doesn't. Experiment with your own sites, and most importantly get creative and don't give up.

We will soon be launching a new banner system and other tools which will make some of your marketing much simpler.

Submit your sites on HERE
Avoid FFA like the plague

I suggest reading THE MONEY MANUAL
Written by Dario Busch, formerly a Swedish Estate Agent and now one of the top internet marketing gurus.
Killer ads and amazing information.

Blogging
Blogging is an extremely good way of attracting members; just create a discussion with a controversial subject in order to get responses. Do not do this as a direct advertisement or you will be dropped. You need to get involved in other discussions first. http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Press releases
Both press releases and blogging are two of the best ways of attracting members. Choose the best places to send your press release; you may have a specialist online press service that works specifically in your geographical area. Don?t make press releases too long and send one every 3-4 weeks to cover issues such as new site launches, new developments www.prweb.com

Dating Directories
Submit your sites to all the dating directories within your country, do this to international directories as well as your own.
We can help you get a full list or you can employ the services of a company to do this for you. Do this with every new site that you produce. The results are steady and regular enough to get you a constant stream of traffic. Alternatively search in Google to get or find a listing, (there are thousands around).

AdWords
This is more sophisticated than other forms of marketing and it may take you a while to work it all out. However it can be particularly effective, especially if you have a Niche site or sites, where costs will be low and rewards much higher. As well as Google, Overture and Yahoo do a similar kind of program https://adwords.google.com/select/Login

SEO Promotion
If you do not know how to go about this (Search engine Optimisation) it is a good idea to find a reputable company to help, locally in your national market.

Banner programs
Get a list of banner exchange programs and submit your sites to these systems. You will need to add a link or banner in exchange, but you have the ability to do this via your management area.

Profile Partners
Finding members from other dating resources, is a classic way that many partners use to promote their sites. As WDP does not market this way, we cannot give advice or support this marketing method.

Tim.

I wanted to start a topic called stats. But I cannot.

I need access to live stats and update site accordingly every hour at the most.

I used to be able to do it with singlescrowd.

This needs to be sorted asap.

Thanks

Steve

Thanks Tim.

Does this mean the member stats are updated live?

Hi,

We are workign on the administration area and updates will be made to make better use of the stats.
Sadly as far as I am aware it is impossible to give live stats on everything as this would create to big a load across our database servers.

Payments and Member details are live already

Will keep you updated with progress of a new area as soon as I can

Yes - when you look at the statistics for any of your individual sites you will see members lists and payments, these are live.

Hi Stephen,

I just used that link to submit my site. I noticed that one search engine rejected my request? Is there a reason for that? If so, will it be a problem as all the others seemed to accept my url. Regards

Hi Scott.



Not a problem.

Some SE's change their submission page sometimes and if you click the button to go their page you can normally find the new page.

awww Stephen.
I spotted the other link you posted a while back was ffa but I used this one Thomas is mentioning;recently and
didnt spot the ffa in the text there.
Stephen!!!!!!! *sobs*

Thank the lord,I didnt get 50,000 spam & hopefully the se,s dont batter me for using it.
Another thing to remember too:nobody is gonna trawl through 50 million links when you can
just go google whatever it is you are looking for.

Peace
SJ.

Hi Tim,

You mention above that you can help us get a list of dating directories, have you got one please?

Paul

Hi Stephen,

Whats FFA? I'll gladly avoid it, but don't know what it is.

Thanks

Paul

Hi Paul,

Basically, a Free For All site is a site (likely to have been banned or blacklisted by Google and other major SE a long time ago !) which places your link on pages which already have hundreds or thousands of links (also called link farms).

That's not good for Search Engine Optimization, as most of them are not taken into account by the popular Search Engines, and moreover you can be penalized by such a practice.

Last point : FFA sites are usually designed to use your data for illegal and immoral purposes like SPAM.

So you must definitely avoid this kind of site !

Also Stephen, I would avoid submitting on the page you suggest, it is clearly stated on the page that your link is being submitted to FFA links. Anyway, submitting links to unpopular Search Engines like those is useless. Nobody will get traffic from this.

Thomas

I agree.
FFA sites died out along time ago!
Google is the biggest search engine, it takes ages to get to the top in there... But im sure we'll get there eventually. I have used that FFA site, but i wont again! As i cant risk my sites being knocked down again!

Good news, there's another way to reach the top of Google... SEO... which stands for search engine optimization !

Yeah, that's a phrase many people don't like as it's a never ending process. But that's the only real way to get to the top for free.

The only thing which is involved is your precious time... and I know time is money ! However, SEO remains the best way to get free targeted quality traffic.

So as a conclusion, it's time to stop believing in Santa Claus... and start working hard

Hard work is always rewarded