Promoting
Your Site
Promoting
your site is as important as getting a site to start with. What good is having
a site if no one can find it? There are many misconceptions when it comes to search
engines, directories and web crawlers. The first thing to remember is web traffic
does not come automatically to your site once it is up and running. The search
tools must crawl your site in order to list it in their indexes. Each search engine
or directory had its own criteria for listing a website and also its own time
period that this takes. Some can do it as fast as a week while others may take
several months. They not only vary from search engine to search engine but also
from day to day. There is no guarantee that they will list it at all but generally
they do as the larger their index is, the more people will use their engines.
We
attempt to help them along by submitting your website to the top search engines
and directories using special software. This gives them the information on your
site without having to come look for it. Once it is submitted, there is still
a period when each one has to visit the site to rate its content and know where
to index it.
What
you can do is also important. Yes, there are things you can do to help spread
the word! Be sure to put your web address (www.yourname.com) on all of your advertising.
If you have business cards and don't want to reorder yet, print the domain on
small address labels and affix them to the back. Print the address on invoices.
Add your web address in the signature of all outgoing emails you send. Put your
address in all directories that you may come across on the Internet that have
to do with your business. Also, tell everyone you know. Word of mouth is still
a great way to become known.
The
longer your site is out in the cyber world, the more it will be seen by potential
customers. We do everything possible to get your site found as quickly as possible.
We know time is money. .