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March 22, 2001
Hi Best Places To Promote Your Site Readers,
Todays' issue starts with three good software. The Windows section
has a good software to help you with your computers memory. the
second is a mailing list software for Mac users and the third is
an XML database for Linux users.
Additonally, I've also included the excellent article, Best
Places To Promote Your Site.
I hope that you enjoy this issue,
Best Wishes,
Pete,
Best Places To Promote Your Site Editor
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Best Places To Promote Your Site
Website promotion is an art. As a webmaster, I spend most of my
time promoting my sites. Without a big budget you cannot promote
a site overnight. Most webmasters don't have a big budget. So,
they have to do it the hard way.
- Keep promoting it day in and day out.
- Try different options.
- Use trial and error to determine what works.
- Spend countless hours to arrive at good places to promote the
site.
Over the years I have promoted my sites at hundreds, if not
thousands, of different places online, some good, some not so
good. I want to share with you the 10 best places to promote your
site so that you won't spend as many hours as I have in finding
them.
Before You Start Promoting Your Site
Be sure to create and include Meta tags on every page. Also,
don't use all of the free submit utilities on the same day since
many of them submit to the same search engines. Wait at least
one week before you use the next utility. You may want to open
an email account on hotmail or another of the free email services
and use that email address if you plan to submit to free for
all links since many send a confirmation email, or add you to a
mailing list.
The Big Ten
1. Self-Promotion: This is the best place to start promoting your
site. And best of all it is free to use. However, for only $10,
you can have your data stored for one year so that you can promote
your site over and over without retyping the information.
Self-promotion allows you to promote your site to over 400
different search engines, indexes, business directories,
international indexes, directories and awards.
2. Jim Tools: This is another free utility that promotes your
site to 400 search engines and indexes and over 200 Free-For-All
(FFA) links pages. Do not use Self-Promotion and Jim Tools in the
same week since many of the search engines and indices are same.
Compared to Self-Promotion, Jim Tools takes a lot less time to
submit to 400 search engines and indexes.
The two free utilities above let you submit one URL to 400
different search engines and indices at a time. However, in some
cases submitting your home page URL alone isn't enough. You have
to "deep submit" your site. Deep submit is nothing more than
submitting each and every page of your site. If you have 100
pages in your site, then you must use the above free, utilities
100 times to submit all of them. (Deep submission is possible
with Self-Promotion's paid service.) But don't worry. You can
use the following deep submit utilities to submit multiple URLs
at the same time.
3. Associate-it Free Submit: This free utility lets you submit
all the pages in your site at one time to 24 major search
engines. All the submissions are done in real time, you can
watch the submission results as they happen. Depending on the
speed of your Internet connection and the number of different
pages you are submitting, this may take any where between three
minutes to a few hours. The good thing is that you can start
the submission and then surf the Net as usual in a different
browser window.
4. The Promoter: This is similar to Associate-it Free Submit,
but it will submit multiple URLs to 800 search engines, indices,
FFA pages, classifieds, etc. at one time. This works much like
Associate-it Free Submit. You can start the submission and then
browse the Net in a different window. The Promoter also notifies
you when it's time to resubmit your site.
5. Announce-it USA: One more free utility that submits multiple
URLs to 300 search engines, indices, FFA links, classifieds,
etc. at one time. This works like Associate-it Free Submit and
The Promoter. You can start the submission and then surf the
Net in a different browser window.
By using the five utilities above, you have submitted your site
to most of the search engines and indices. It may take anywhere
between three weeks to six months for your site to be indexed.
6. Open Directory: Recently, when Netscape purchased NewHoo, the
Open Directory, I was quick to submit my site to be included.
The only complaint I have with the Open Directory Project is
that the editor in the category you are trying to submit your
site to may be your competitor and may try to list your site
lower in the list. But you can submit your site to three or
four different categories if it belongs. Recently, Lycos and
HotBot adopted the Open Directory, so getting listed with the
Open Directory may bring you a lot of traffic.
7. Direct Hit: A lot of search engines like HotBot, MSN and
others have recently adopted the Direct Hit search technology.
Getting listed with Direct Hit may also bring in considerable
amount of traffic, but your site has to be somewhat popular.
8. GoTo.com: Even though it is not free, GoTo.com can bring
targeted traffic to your site at a low cost. To get listed with
GoTo.com you have to open an account with a minimum of $25, then
bid on keywords that you would like to target. The minimum bid
for each keyword is $0.01. I would recommend bidding $0.01 on
500-1000 keywords related to your site. You can bid high on
5-10 keywords that are really important to your site and bid
$0.01 on others.
To generate 500-1000 keywords related to your site, use Jim
Tools keyword generator. If you
type in two or three keywords related to your site, the keyword
generator searches the web for similar sites and compiles list
of keywords by reading their Meta tags. Usually, if you bid on
1000 keywords, you will get between 75-100 hits a day.
9. Yahoo!: Even though getting listed on Yahoo is a pain and it
may take up to six months, most sites get the majority of their
traffic from Yahoo!. Also try submitting to Yahoo! Local or
International if your site fits. If you submitted your site to
Yahoo! and nothing happened for four or five weeks, try submitting
again in the same category, or maybe in a different category. You
can get good tips on how to get listed on Yahoo! at search engine
forums at searchengineforums.com. Do what ever you
have to do, but get listed on Yahoo!.
10. PRweb: Press releases are one of the most effective ways to
generate traffic to your site. If written well, they can be very
effective. Over 90 percent of press releases are sent out by the
companies or sites trying to generate traffic or publicity. Write
a press release and distribute it free of cost using Prweb.
If you would like to add other good places to promote a website
to this list, please send them to me. I will try to add them.
About the Author:
Riyaj Shaik, President & CEO, Associate-it.com: The ultimate
directory of affiliate programs. Associate-it.com's fully searchable and categorized
database includes reviews, ratings and descriptions of over
1,100 affiliate programs. You can find tons of free information
relating to affiliate programs and website promotion at
Associate-it.com.
We at the Editorial Team would like to thank all our readers for reading Best Places To Promote Your Site.
Sincerely,
Peter Thiruselvam
The Editorial Team
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