Site start-up is easy, next steps are not (about site indexing and content building)

We launched Startator.com in a day or two and it was up and running with all the features we needed integrated and working. Opensource rules these days, as every content owner can publish information in a nice readable format in one or two hours, using Wordpress, launch Digg type of site using Pligg. And I'm sure there are a lot of other interesting software.

So big thanks for the opensource market, but next steps are not so easy.

1. Editing content. This really takes times. That is probably why more that 2/3 of blogs and new sites does not succeed. Lack of time, will or both. So we are focusing on trying to put as much as possible usefull information into Startator.com and this takes I would say 6-8 hours of all our time a week. So advice for the ones that are thinking that is easy - do not start if you are not ready to dedicate at least 10 hours a week (this is only for content).

2. Registering the site in the search engines, free directories, blog sites and all else possible. We started with the free submission to the directories, to the list which you can find in Nate Whitehill's blog. Not all of them are free now, but You can find some that will help you in the way of making your site more popular.

3. Commenting on other blogs. This is also one of the best ways to be known. BUT this element takes A LOT OF time. You have to be updated of all new posts (so use RSS reader here) and try to comment not with some blah blah stuff, but put quality comments. One thing - you start to like it, when you do it seriously; another thing - you will not get banned by putting comments like "Oh, what a nice post" to every post in the blog. A little advice on this one - collect like top50 of blogs that are in the same topic as you are and track new titles comming, comment them and it will do you good. How good? We will continue to write how we succeeded, because now the results are quite low, as we are started only a little more than a week.