More tips for promoting a website
Follow W3C standards (http://www.w3.org/). It helps your site in the long run.
Your local community sports teams offer cheap, but highly effective sponsorship opportunities.
Publicize your site on related forums – but don’t spam!
Ask bloggers to write about your site or product – in return for a link, of course.
Offer a competition related to something in the news – (World Series, World Cup, Super Bowl, etc.).
Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to others.
Have a Sitemap to let users navigate your site quickly and to aid the search engines.
Have a nice, keyword rich title at the top of each page. Users and search engines like descriptive titles.
Have a Feedburner button on your site so people can easily subscribe to your feed.
If you using PPC, create a landing page for each of your terms in AdWords. It boost s conversions dramatically.
Appear on Dragon’s Den.
Create a Press section to store all your press releases, logos, and banners.
Add a link to your site from in your eBay profile.
Ask friends to give you honest feedback on your site.
The best way to find someone to do work on your site is through personal recommendation.
Gain exposure by submitting photos and pictures to Flikr (http://www.flickr.com/).
Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
Make sure it’s easy for users to subscribe to your RSS feed.
Create a “lens” for your site on Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com)
Ask friends, collegues and associates to “Favourite” your blog on Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/).
You can add a Bulletin to your MySpace account promoting your site to all your MySpace Friends.
Response to customer emails promptly, even if it is only an auto-responder. No one likes waiting 3 or 4 days for an acknowledgement of their contact with you.
Get a professional Copywriter to look at your site. If you are on a tight budget, limit it to the just the homepage.
Make a list. For example, “Top 10′s” work well. Update it regularly to give visitors a reason to return.
What did you learn today? Tell other people and they might learn something too.
Do you have really hot content on your site geeks would love? If so, Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) will bring a mass of traffic.
Deep link directories are an excellent way to promote inner pages of your site.
Meta tags might carry less weight than previously, but you should still have them on every page.
Ask your Grandparents for feedback on your site. Never ignore the silver surfers.
Include a “Add to your Technorati favourites” button on your site.
Google Analytics is free and will tell you all you need to know about who’s visiting your site.
Search engines will find you. Don’t pay money for your site to be “submitted”.
Don’t be afraid to link to other sites, especially if they are relevant and highly respected.
Keep It Simple Stupid: use CSS to control layout, style, and colours and use HTML text rather than graphics to represent text.
Validate (http://validator.w3.org/) your HTML and CSS. It’ll helps your site display well in all browsers.
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