September 9, 2007 11:23 am10 unusual places to drop your URL
Link Marketing isn’t only about getting clickable links, it’s about getting your URL spread. These 10 links won’t pass any link juice, but they certainly can help getting your website out there.
1. Your Bluetooth profile name
Considering the fact that you’re into SEO and computers and geeky gadget stuff, you’ll probably have a phone with Bluetooth. When you select your URL as your Bluetooth profile name, everybody in your direct surroundings scanning for nearby Bluetooth phones will see your URL. This can get you at least a few visitors, especially when you use this strategy during an SES conference.
2. Your license plate frame
Take advantage of that daily traffic jam by adding your URL to your license plate frame. You can even add up to four URLs if you have a large frame before it gets cluttered. Or before the person driving behind you thinks you’re spamming. You can also give license plate frames with your URL away (they’re actually quite cheap).
3. Your wireless router profile name
I’m Dutch. Dutch people are cheap. So when I’m taking my dog for a walk, I’ll let my phone scan for unprotected wifi connections in stead of using my providers network. A few weeks ago, I noticed someone in my neighborhood named his profile after his URL and I visited this website straight away. Right after taking advantage of his unprotected network, of course.
4. Your voice mail message
“Hi, this is Wiep. You tried to reach me, but unfortunately I’m not available at the moment. Please leave your phone number, or visit wiep.net and drop me an email or a comment, and I’ll get back to you.”
5. Your roof
Your roof is the perfect Google Earth or Live Visual Earth promotion. Paint the URL on your roof an just sit back and wait until your neighbors are checking out the digital version of your neighborhood. If you have a big house, you can even try to paint a deeplink. Do not try this when you don’t live on the top floor, btw.
6. Your pens
Write your personal URL on every pen on your office desk. Because people at work usually have the strange habit to steal pens, this is a great way to spread your website around the office. Beware, that if your website happens to be NSWF, this can get you or even the colleague who’s visiting your website fired. Tip: you can also use promotional pens.
7. The local internet cafe
If you regularly visit an internet cafe, it can pay off to set your website as the default start up home page. It’s better to see people visiting your website than the standard MSN or Mozilla page. This also works at conferences, where there usually are several free to use computers available.
8. Your clothes
Walk around wearing
a yourwebsite.com polo shirt or a yourprofile.org cap. People will see it and some will think your website is the new trend. They will visit your website straight away. Don’t overuse this strategy by wearing nothing but URL inserted clothes, because people will think you’re some kind of promo guy wearing link spam clothes.
9. Your phone number
If you don’t have a domain name like this, you can also choose to set up your domain name as your phone number. Choose 1-800-YOUR-DOMAIN-COM as your personal phone number if you want your URL out there.
10. Fill this one in your self
What other uncommon places are out there where you can drop your URL? Add a comment with your suggestions. And while you’re at it, don’t forget to leave your URL as well.
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You’ve indeed made a list with unusual places to drop your URL
Nice out-of-the-box thinking.
You can also print your URL on some stickers and paste them at different places like lampposts and billboards etc.
Comment by Eduard Blacquière — September 9, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Donate t-shirts and caps with your URL to clothes drives. Gives you exposure esp. in the 3rd world.
Comment by Sebastian — September 9, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Eduard, printing stickers with your URL is also a great one.
Donating clothes with URLs is hilarious, Sebastian, never thought of it
Comment by Wiep — September 9, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
10: On your underwear, especially if you are promiscous.
Comment by Tad Chef — September 9, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
Well…what about leaving my URL HERE ?!
Comment by Alex Maker — September 9, 2007 @ 10:43 pm
Amusing Stuff! Stumbled and Sphunn
Comment by Matt Jones — September 10, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
* Tattoo (old news)
* skywriting
* sleeping bums (see #1)
* Bleach on your neighbors yard
* spell it in birdseed, you know what happens next
* Burn outs on the local high shcool football field a la NASCAR
* Diamond Grill a la Mike Jones (small URL or big freakin mouth)
* Pee in the snow (I live in Wisconsin)
Comment by Benjamin — September 10, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
For those that live in Florida instead of Wisconsin, you could write it on the beach in sand. I’d recommend in front of a high profile, 20+ story condo or hotel. Make sure you do it before the tide comes in though!
Funny list and I thought the underwear and donated clothes additions were hysterical.
Comment by Rhea Drysdale — September 10, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
Hilarious post! I just had to leave my URL here! You could leave your URL posted on those bulletin boards at the grocery store and Wal-Mart too.
Comment by Pat B. Doyle — September 10, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
‘I write messages on money.
It’s my own form of social protest.
A letter printed on paper that no one will destroy
passed indiscriminately across race, class and gender lines
and written in the blood that keeps the beast alive.
A quiet little hijacking
on the way to the check-out counter
And a federal crime.
I hope that someone will find my message one day when they really need it.
Like I do.’ — Rage Against the Machine. Of course, they wrote things like ‘You are not a slave’, but URLs work too. As I understand it, writing on US currency is legal so long as it’s not intended to make the bill unfit to be reissued. (http://www.bep.treas.gov/document.cfm/18/104)
Comment by Luca Masters — September 10, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
Creative list - when glance over #6 - at first I thought it said “pen!s” and that really got my attention!
Comment by E Lawrence Welch — September 10, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
Get a tub of paint, get a water pistol then fill the waterpistol with paint then go to a wall in the city or something at like 3 am in the morning, then write your url on the wall with the water pistol,
its genius
Comment by Jason — September 10, 2007 @ 5:57 pm
Skywriting, lawn bleaching, sand writing and money writing… Great tips
Comment by Wiep — September 10, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
Offer to put up changing tables in local shops’ restrooms, and have them silkscreened with your URL. Stamp it on magazines and leave them in the gym or the doctor’s office. Chalk it on sidewalks in the areas your target customers frequent. Make it into an optometrist’s eye chart, a vocalise, or a reading game and distribute it to suitable optometrists, voice teachers, and literacy coaches. Have it made up as a self-inking rubber stamp and surreptitiously stamp it on all the paper napkins at a fast food restaurant.
Comment by Rebecca — September 10, 2007 @ 9:58 pm
Some good tips there although I don’t think that painting your URL on your roof is for everyone…
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Pingback by Link Building this week (28-09) | Wiep.net — September 28, 2007 @ 3:20 pm
The t-shirt one is what i was going to do for when i go running.
Another good one if you play online games is to append your website to your name. Or to prefix it. In counterstrike i am protella.com-[kensai] got about 40 people to my site in a weekend session
Or in supermarkets where you can post an ad, just put it there.
Comment by Protella — October 12, 2007 @ 2:13 pm
Love the ideas, especially the license plate.
———————————————–
Remember when………..
Http://www.Vintage-Ads.com
Comment by Chas — November 4, 2007 @ 2:19 pm
Make up magnetic signs for your car. Flyers in parking lots. I like some of the others listed, donating clothes is hilarious!
Comment by Lyn — November 19, 2007 @ 9:20 am
Stickers are a good idea. Stick them on videos at rental stores, on the bottom of shoes at shoe stores, the bottom of coffee mugs at Starbucks. I guess with stickers you could put them almost anywhere…
Comment by Blendwire — December 22, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
Great ideas there dude…
www.prayukth.co.nr
Comment by wisdom — December 29, 2007 @ 5:57 pm
This post is another place for dropping your url =)
Comment by Soulja Boy — January 13, 2008 @ 8:10 pm
A good place for an url might also be across your dog’s coat as you take it for a walk.
Another good place might be at a train crossing.
Another place Ive seen them is in the sky ie sky writing or above pedestrian crossing over freeways.
Another place hmmmm let me seee. Below is another place, but its an annoying place, and Im sorry if it offended -
www.ppptalks.com
Thats it for me.
Comment by Kathy Filia — January 14, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
Also …
Voice 2 page - record by phone - internet website audio are places where people ‘drop their url’ and register for audio adverts on their websites.
February the 1st it all starts - looks promising.. take a quick look
ppptalks.com
Comment by Kathy — January 18, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
How about right here? Thanks for the tips man, gonna get on my roof and tip-ex my url into the tiles.
http://www.bbhd.co.uk/ hehe
Comment by John — March 14, 2008 @ 9:12 am
nice thinking ! to promote your web unusual.
tips no 1 is still the best and no 8 the easy way to promote your website.
use a sticker and put @ your car, your domain name.
Comment by richwei — April 9, 2008 @ 1:15 am