| Some tips to help you promote your site There are more than 320 million web sites out there. You need to actively promote your web site to be noticed |
The best place to start
promoting your site is to submit your web's address (URL) to search engines. Nine out of
ten users will find your site through search engines. There are more than 1500 search
engines out there but get your site listed at least on the top ten search engines, like
Alta Vista, Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos. The more the merrier as even the most popular
search engines only has a fraction of the 320 million plus listed. You also need to submit
your URL every four months or so. You can use an URL publish or web promotion service like
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| Edit your META tags to include appropriate keywords and a description of your site. Most search engines use this to catalog your site. |
| Place your URL in your signature file of your e-mail program. |
Post to relevant newsgroups.
You can use
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Use a banner exchange service
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| Swap links with like-minded sites. |
| and last but not least... Make a note of the date and the action you have taken to promote your site and monitor it to see its effectiveness. |