Site Promotion Tips
(For those who are not familiar of SEO, here are some simple steps for you)
Promoting New/Baby Sites
1. Know what key phrases/key words to optimize your site for, you can use Google Adwords and WordTracker
2. Meta tags are important. To generate tags for your site, you can use Add Me. Copy and paste the meta tags to your site.
3. Submit your site to URL directories. You can download an excel file of web directories at Info VileSilencer.
Also, submit your site to Google so that it can easily locate your site.
http://www.clickpress.com
http://www.webwire.com/
http://www.emediawire.com
http://www.businesswire.com
http://www.prwebdirect.com -
http://www.theopenpress.com
http://www.free-press-release.com
http://www.pressbox.co.uk
http://www.i-newswire.com/
http://www.pr9.net
http://www.pr-inside.com
http://www.newswire.ca/
http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com
http://www.marketwire.com
http://www.urlwire.com/
http://www.prweb.com (small contribution)
http://www.prurgent.com
http://www.prleap.com -
http://www.prnewswire.com
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.openpress.com/
http://www.softpressrelease.com
1. Submit your feeds to RSS feeds directory. Here are a few list:
· my.yahoo.com
· http://publisher.yahoo.com/submit.php
- www.FeedBurner.com
- www.Squidoo.com
- www.feedboy.com
- www.jordomedia.com
- www.FeedBomb.com
- www.FeedCat.net
- www.rssmad.com
- www.feeddirectory.us
- www.feedfury.com
- rss-feeds-submission.com
- www.allfeeds.org
- www.rss-info.info
Know where the feed of your site is locate: www.FeedBurner.com
2. Every time you update the content of your site, Ping it.
3. Submit every page of your blog to Social Bookmarking Sites. xanersoft has a compilation of bookmarking sites.
4. Comment on other blogs. Remember to use your keyword and link it to your site when commenting. Make informational not spam comments.
5. Forum Posting
· Register to forums and communities that are related to your site and industry. You can also try Yahoo Answers. You can put in the “source area” your site.
· See to it that this forum accepts signature.
· Use the site you are promoting as a signature.
· When posting, you need to make your keywords anchor of link to your site.
· Do not advertise your site in the forum!
· Make informational and relevant posts.
6. Go to Squidoo and set up a free lens on a topic. When you make your lenses, add as many keywords (tags) as you can that are related to your topic to bring in more traffic. Treat it like blog and update it daily.
7. Submit a story to Digg, Netscape and AssociatedContent.
There you go, remember these are just a few of the many ways of SEO.