Guides: Promoting your website
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| * Have other websites linked to you. This is obvious - having others linked to you helps people discover your website, and also improves your search results. Beware of using link exchange schemes such as so-called link farms. Search engines will penalize you for doing this. | * Have other websites linked to you. This is obvious - having others linked to you helps people discover your website, and also improves your search results. Beware of using link exchange schemes such as so-called link farms. Search engines will penalize you for doing this. | ||
| - | * Ubiquitous website address: add your website URL to your business card, collateral and any other advertising you have. | + | * Ubiquitous website address: add your website URL to your business card, collateral and any other advertising that you have. |
| * Word of mouth: let your friends, colleagues, and people you network with know about your website. | * Word of mouth: let your friends, colleagues, and people you network with know about your website. | ||
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| * Online word of mouth. Add your site URL to your user signature at online forums. Anytime you post a message to a forum, there will be a link to your website. | * Online word of mouth. Add your site URL to your user signature at online forums. Anytime you post a message to a forum, there will be a link to your website. | ||
| - | * Try to have a story published about you in a local newspaper or business magazine, and be sure to include your website address in it. | + | * Try to have a story published about you in a local newspaper or business magazine, and be sure to include your website in it. |
| - | * Join organizations that help small businesses, such as your local chamber of commerce or small business administration. They will often allow listing member websites on their websites. | + | * Join organizations that help small businesses, such as your local chamber of commerce or small business administration. They will often allow listing member websites on their websites for free. |
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As part of MesArt, your website is included in our listings, therefore, it is automatically discovered by search engines which regularly crawl MesArt. So, you have search engines covered. What can be done beyond this?
Here are some tips that may help promoting your website for free.
- Add quality links to your website. On your links page, you can place links to one or several websites that you consider valuable for your visitors. This may positively affect your ranking by search engines - they like when people link to websites that they already consider valuable
- List your website in online directories. Online directories such as Yahoo and Dmoz.org list websites for free and allow other people to discover your site.
- Have other websites linked to you. This is obvious - having others linked to you helps people discover your website, and also improves your search results. Beware of using link exchange schemes such as so-called link farms. Search engines will penalize you for doing this.
- Ubiquitous website address: add your website URL to your business card, collateral and any other advertising that you have.
- Word of mouth: let your friends, colleagues, and people you network with know about your website.
- Online word of mouth. Add your site URL to your user signature at online forums. Anytime you post a message to a forum, there will be a link to your website.
- Try to have a story published about you in a local newspaper or business magazine, and be sure to include your website in it.
- Join organizations that help small businesses, such as your local chamber of commerce or small business administration. They will often allow listing member websites on their websites for free.
