9 Ways To Promote You Site Tutorial

This short tutorial will show you how you can promote your site without paying a cent to anybody.
1. Search Engines:

Submit your site to few search engines. There are a lot of places where you can submit your site to multiple search engines for free. Try submitting your site every 3-4 month so search engines won't "forget" about you.

There are four best search engines. It's Yahoo, Altavista, Infoseek, and Lycos. They are the few of the best and can bring you the most amount of traffic.

Tip: Most of the search engines don't allow spamming. But if you can't wait another 3 months to resubmit your site, get a redirection URL and submit it, instead of your real one.

2. Meta Tags:

Always use meta tags on your site and especially index page. What do they do? When search engines add your homepage to their database, the first thing that they look for is a special tag with the description and keywords of the page. Place the Meta tag in the &ltHEAD></HEAD> part of your document. If you don't have one, follow the instructions below to create it.

&ltTITLE>Insert the title of your page here. This text will appear on the Title Bar when your page is loaded.</TITLE>

&ltMETA name="description" content="Insert the description of your site here. Limit 255 characters."> &ltMETA name="keywords" content="Insert the keywords here. About 10-20.">

Fill in title, description, and keywords, then cut-n-paste it on your site.

3. Reciprocal Links:

This is one of the best ways to get more people come to your site. Exchange your link with other websites that got similar or different content. This way everybody wins. Use search engines to find similar sites.

4. Banner Exchange:

Even though this is one of the most popular ways to promote your site they don't always bring the amount of traffic they tell you. Also remember that every banner exchange has different ratios, so choose carefully.

I'd recommend you BeSeen Smart Clicks or Link Exchange.

Tip: When you are choosing a banner exchange for your site, it would be much better if it could be targeted. That way, you'll get more chances on traffic.

5. Webrings:

This another good way to promote your site. Actually this method is very productive. Find and join webrings that are on the topic of your site. They will bring you slow but steady amount if visitors. To find webrings search in this huge directory.

6. Recommend-It:

Use this way if you already have a decent amount of visitors, but you'd wish to have more. Using it your visitors will promote your site by filling out and sending a simple form about your site to their friends. Visit Recommend-It for a free remotely hosted script.

7. Signature:

Add the URL and a short description of your Web site to every e-mail you send in your signature file.

Tip: You can also use this method in message boards, chat rooms, guestbooks.

8. Usenet:

Usenet is a great way to find people with the same interest. For example, if you are a webmaster of a music site, find a musical discussion group, and post a link to your site here. But make sure, that this usenet group is accepting this topic.


9. Online Classifieds:

There are truly millions of free classified ads programs. A lot of them even divided on topics, so you can add your site where it belongs. They are a very good method to get a steady amount of traffic to your site every day.

Tip: You should resubmit your information every 2 months or so for better results

I think This is a great Tutorial but you have to know a lot more to promote your site correctly


Edited July 10, 2005 by snlildude87 (see edit history)

You have made a very good tutorial for listing a site in the search enginges at free cost. There may not be much (nothing) left behind to promote one's site at free of cost. However, since you have included a 'web ring', I doubt if this is useful at all. I heard that many hosts, specially free hosting sites usually don't like a web-ring thing. Is this true? Besides, I heard that web-ring isn't promoting a site, is this true as well? I heard that robots can know a web-ring and they just don't like it. I'm just curious to know more about on web-ring. Thanks.

You have made a very good tutorial for listing a site in the search enginges at free cost

Err no he hasn't. He copied it from another site:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Notice any similarity?

omg thanks really much for posting that! i didint know even half :Pthis helped me a lot.

Err no he hasn't. He copied it from another site:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Notice any similarity?

Ooops....they are really the same

Ooops....they are really the same

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Yes, and that's why you should never do something like that here at Xisto or else you will get a warning.

kool....

That's a great tutorial! Thanks Should I add meta tags to the content in my iframe as well, or would that make the pages appear without the rest of the site when you search on them? Does anybody know?

Most of these suggestions and tips work, especially using Signature to your emails and forum profiles. But there are some problems about banners exchange and reciprocal links, most of the time you will have spammers posting at your shoutboxes and guestbooks with unlimited website links which usually start with wrong grammars and spellings like "your website is raelly nice..." and they all have that same introduction though they are from different persond from different countries. it is very annoying, I have to IP ban them one by one.

thank you verymuch for that great information

That's a great tutorial! Thanks Should I add meta tags to the content in my iframe as well, or would that make the pages appear without the rest of the site when you search on them? Does anybody know?

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I am sure searches would bring people to the iframe pages if you put meta tags into them.

 

Having my site listed in my profile at boards that I visit has been the best promotion for my site so far. Pages from all of my sites are listed on almost every search engine because of those links and the ones in my signature. I wonder what would happen if I broke down and put meta tags on my pages.

I have been doing SEO for over 3 years and can say that you only need to submit your site once and don't have to re-submit.With some search engines like Google you don't even have to submit your site. They will automatically find it if you have your link on sites that are already in the Google search engine.