Part 3: SECRETS FOR PROMOTING YOUR URL
(If your site is for only a few "select" individuals, skip this page)
Here is my list of favorites:
- put a banner in the back window of your car; showing your URL
- use Meta Tags (between your "head" tags). To see mine, use the "View | Source" on your browser.
- To check your tags, visit http://www.scrubtheweb.com/ and they will
analyze yours online, free. Design your Meta Tags carefully; they have a huge effect on how Search Engines (like
Google) find or can not find your site. Certain Meta Tags actually TELL them NOT to index your site. You can also have
them checked online at http://validator.w3.org/ at no charge.
- Upload your page to many free servers such as those I use, as detailed on my study and
check to see what the free hosts do with your page in terms of defacing it with advertising banners.
- Watch for "discussion groups" and such places where you can post a notice or even a question which includes your
URL.
- Make your URL part of your email signature.
- Subscribe to some newsletters.
- Email comments to other webmasters, congratulating them on a job well done. Maybe they will link to you if you
offer to link to them.
- Encourage visitors to "bookmark" your page; you could do so with this line:
Would this be a good time to Bookmark this website? Hit Control-D to do so.
- Encourage visitors to email your URL to their friends. Click the yellow bar (below) NOW and note what appears on
the Email composition form; all that's needed is the address)
- Try to have a collection of varied subjects to attract as many people as possible; John Barach referred to my
website as being "eclectic" and I finally got out the dictionary to see what that meant. He was right!
- Get your site listed in the Stumble-upon" database at
http://www.stumbleupon.com/.
- Check out Google's help page:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769.
