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Internet Marketing Articles » Index » Web Site Traffic Tips Promoting Your Web Site
Promoting Your Web Site by Shelley Lowery ©Copyright 2003 Creating a successful Internet presence involves much more than designing a great web site or having the "perfect" product. Listing your web site with the Search Engines is your first step; however, you must not solely rely on the Search Engines to bring you traffic. You must design a complete promotional strategy and work it every day. If you're launching a new web site, your first step will be to submit your site to the Search Engines and Directories. Although there are many auto-submission software programs available on the Internet, make sure you manually submit your site to the main Search Engines and Directories: Google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html Although you can submit your site map to Google, you will receive a higher ranking by allowing their robots to find your pages on their own. The Open Directory Project: http://dmoz.org/add.html AltaVista: http://addurl.altavista.com/ Lycos: http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html Hotbot: http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp Once you've manually submitted your main pages, visit SelfPromotion.com (http://www.selfpromotion.com) to automatically submit your pages to a number of additional Search Engines and Directories. A good way to organize your promotions is to set up a web page, for your personal use, that will contain your complete strategy. This page should be stored on your hard drive and not uploaded to your server. Your page should contain four sections. 1 - Daily Promotions 2 - Weekly Promotions 3 - Monthly Promotions 4 - Miscellaneous Promotions Each of these four sections should contain the appropriateinformation for each of your promotional resources, such as web site name, user ID, password (if applicable) and hyperlinked web addresses for each web site you plan to usefor your promotions. This will enable you to open your webpage each day and visit the sites you have listed. Discuss it, Make a comment | Bulletin Board
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