Ask HN: How to promote my website?

[ammar_hameed]

Hi HN,

I've built a website that provide a very good service for everyone, especially for experts/influencers with many amazing features.

Now I'm trying to promote it but as you all know it's not an easy task to do. I've searched a lot and all tips are good and I've been following each one of them with no success so far. I've contacted a lot of bloggers and still doing so actually, I tried publishing on slashdot but it looks like it's getting rejected. My co-founder is attending a bloggers/hackers event trying to promote the site with many people.

Is there anything we are missing or we should do better? and how can we get the big websites talking about it?

Thanks,

[wsieroci]

You could try increase search traffic to your site by trying to position your site in Google for some specific niche keywords. You can use my tool: http://metrics11.com to find right keywords. But you will have to wait for effect some time though and it depends on backlinks your site will gain in the future.

[ammar_hameed]

awesome tool, thanks

[sawyer1708]

Your target audience (Experts, SME, anyone with followers) is too wide a category. Try and start with a specific niche. Visit forums about the niche. Participate there and post your website. See if people start using it and continue to do so.

[ammar_hameed]

ok will start doing that, thank you :)

[sawyer1708]

Clickable - http://www.faqrobo.com/

[leephillips]

You could try telling people who are already listening to you, like us here, where your website is.

[ammar_hameed]

I thought this will be treated as a spam :). it's www.faqrobo.com

[ammar_hameed]

Please note that the website is www.faqrobo.com, and this is our blog, blog.faqrobo.com

[syerram2]

some immediate feedback - take it for what it is. I was a little confused by the title: "The biggest, fattest, online FAQ" - Why would I care about FAQs? FAQs are boring, hard to find on most websites & not really an option any more on most web apps. I want immediate answers to my questions - so maybe changing your messaging around that. Moving away from FAQs to something along the lines of Yahoo Answers..

[ammar_hameed]

Thank you for you feedback :). The idea behind the website is that we're trying to have all FAQs in one place, it could be about anything, health, life, technology, etc. For example you are an experienced web designed and people always ask you the same questions, now you can put them in your page and everyone can read see it. This page is a good example http://www.faqrobo.com/tash

[namenotrequired]

Who's your target audience? Where have you spoken to them in person before?

[ammar_hameed]

Experts, SME, anyone with followers who can be asked question and provide an answer. I don't really know the bloggers, I've been visiting some their blog and contact them by email.

[namenotrequired]

Aha! I recommend you stop trying to ask them to promote it (for now at least) and start asking if your website solves a problem for them.

[ammar_hameed]

Thanks, Actually we did that, My co-founder attended blogger events and he got nothing but positive comments.

[namenotrequired]

PS you should probably add the prefix "Ask HN:" to the title :)

[ammar_hameed]

Just did, thanks :)