So you just built your prize website. You put weeks of work into making the best
site possible. Everything is perfect.
Now you wonder, why is nobody coming to your site? The answer is simple: You
Must PROMOTE!! Promote everyday, every week, every god given hour... and then
promote some more.
There are loads of ways to promote your website that will cost you nothing.
Here are some of the best ways that I have found.
- Link Exchanges
- Message Boards
- Publish an Ezine
- Search Engines
- Announcement Lists
Link Exchanges
Set up a link exchange page on your site and then find sites that share the
same interest or "theme" of your site. Email the webmasters of these sites
and explain why you want to do a link exchange. Tell them a little about
your site and invite them to take a look around it. But be selective about
which sites you put your link on as the quality of the other sites can bring
un wanted visitors (or the wrong crowd) to your site. In 90% of cases the
webmaster will be willing to exchange links, so give it a go!
Message Boards
Get involved in message boards or forums. Don't just post a single ad and then
never come back to it. Ask questions, answer questions, generally just interact
with your visitors. Many people have had alot of success with this method.
Publish an Ezine
If you are serious about your business you should definitely produce an ezine.
You want to provide quality information as well as updates and information
on your site. This will be one way to gather emails and keep your potential
customers coming back.
Tip: Never sell your visitors/customers email to another company as they will
not be best pleased with you and you can kiss that customer and all the people
they know goodbye!!!
Search Engines
You should manually submit to the top search engines and never use the programs
and companies on the internet. You should also get listed in the minor engines
and any directories you can find on other sites. Get listed in as many places
as you can (except possibly Free For All pages). I prefer not to place my
ad on some of these FFA pages. Here are the top search engines:
- Yahoo - yahoo.com
- Hotbot - hotbot.com
- Alta Vista - altavista.com
- Excite - excite.com
- Lycos - lycos.com
- Google - google.com
- Infoseek - infoseek.go.com
- Northern Light - northernlight.com
- WebCrawler - webcrawler.com
- Splut - splut.com
Do not submit to these too often, you could be banned. Every three to four weeks is often enough.
Announcement Lists
There are hundreds and hundreds of announcement lists where you can announce
your website, ezine or business opportunity. Make sure you follow the rules
for Submiting your ads to each list though as you could be banned. You can
find some of these lists at:
When you have a website or ezine, you have to spend a lot of time promoting.
As you promote, you will learn more about the different ways you can do this
on the internet. You must keep at it and do not give up when things look bad.
It takes time to get your business established online. Doing these things I
have listed will help you spread the word! The only thing that l ever regret
is not starting and mailing list/ezine when l first established my website
as it has brought to my site more hits than some of the search engines alone!
So, it takes time but it's worth it in the end... trust me!!! :)
