Just a few ways to promote your website
When launching a new website, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to social bookmarking sites like Digg (http://www.digg.com/), Reddit (http://reddit.com/) and Now Public (http://www.nowpublic.com/).
Create a Yahoo Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/) for your site’s niche.
Create a MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/) account to publicize your site.
Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) and if add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
Create a Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/) account and “claim” your blog.
Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list is(http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.ph…endly-list.php).
Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree (http://www.gumtree.com/).
Syndicate your site’s content with an RSS feed.
Submit your RSS feed to agregator sites like
- FeedBurner (http://www.feedburner.com/),
- Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com),
- Feedboy (http://www.feedboy.com/),
- Jordomedia (http://www.jordomedia.com/),
- FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury.
Write an article for your website and submit it to article sites.
Join StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com) and get friends to Stumble your site.
Create a custom 404 page so site errors are re-directed somewhere nice.
Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here (http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articl…1-redirect.htm) for more info.
Add a link to your site in the signature of any forum where you post.
Tell friends about your website. It’s free advertising!
Speel cheek ur stie. Nothing says amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
Test your site to be sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
Don’t worry about PageRank – it is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
Offer something free. Free is good. People tell friends about free stuff.
Tell your neighbours. You never know what contacts they might have.
Offer users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo, email, phone, and a real address.
Advertise your site on Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.org). It’s free, relevant and local.
Do NOT use frames.
Submit your site to DMOZ.org (http://dmoz.org/). It may take time, but it’s worth it.
Create an XML sitemap (http:/www.xml-sitemaps.com/) of your site and submit it to Google (http://www.google.com).
Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
Ask a large breasted lady to wear one too.
Sign up with an affiliate program to sell your product, or if you’re a publisher, make some cash!
On your Contact Page, ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
Send a newsletter!
Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
Don’t pay people to submit your site to search engines. It’s a waste of money.
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/) and Google Video (http://video.google.com) are excellent portals to launch a viral campaign.
Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
Sponsor a WordPress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
If you sell products advertised on television by the manufacturer, add “As Seen on TV” to your site!
Avoid proprietary technologies like Java and Active X.
Put downloadable content on your site, but be sure it’s not manufacturer specific – so mp3 rather than wma.
Learn about CSS. It’s the new HTML.
Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.
Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
Have user friendly page names – most tools comes with some way to avoid http://www.yourdomain.com/pgInfoPage…F95282342295A3A10
If you must have a Flash home page, be sure it has a “Skip Intro” link.
Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.
Donate money to a charity and most will place a link on their site back to you.
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