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Do you have a link to your website? I did not see it in your post.

Thanks NetworkGuru, that was really helpful advice.

The best way to promote a website is to add some clustering. Hopefully your website is optimized for the key phrases you're looking to target, so if you add more sites to target your "long tail" key phrases that relate to your main one, you'll draw traffic when you link your clustered sites to your web page.

Now here's an "insider tip" . . .

The search engines love blogs and social networks.

So go somewhere like http://rticlz.com, sign up for a free blog and start writing articles about flowers. Link your blog to your main web site.

Once you have 3 or 4 articles written, submit each article to the social networks like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Propeller. Tag your articles using your main and long tail key phrase and watch how quickly your blog will rank in a search for your key phrases.

Using this method I have successfully out competed over 7 million sites for top listing. One of my blogs ranked at #3 in 17 minutes.

Its effective and won't cost you a cent.

You might also want to consider what you can do to revive local sales. These will likely be cheaper for you since you don't have to deal with shipping. Try fliers with (cheap but nice looking) flowers attached to them, to draw in attention. Maybe attract people in with a promotional offer. Get old customers to come back by sending greeting cards for the holidays. There are all sorts of ideas out there. Try one.

doublehead: this sounds pretty cool. I have not promoted my Youth Lacrosse website at all yet, but I am only interested in drawing viewers interested in Youth Lacrosse in our location. Is there a way to customize your approach for local targetting?
Thanks
R

You can list your website on Yahoo.com local and AOL Yellow Pages.