Promote,Promote,Promote
Website promoting is easy, all it takes is doing a little of it
every day. You should have a plan,however,so you can tackle the
wide assortment of places you can promote your site to a few of
each at a time. Nothing beats the use of 'submitters' and other
types of tools for getting your message out to as many with in
as little time as you can, such as to 'networked' sites. Not all
submitters are the same, nor do they send your article to the
same places to be seen. For this reason, you may want to get a
couple of them. As the web is world wide, then why not one based
in the United States and another from Europe?
You will still find yourself doing a lot of manual submissions
as there are many very good sites to place your message that are
not on submitters or tools, yet they are well worth the efforts.
1.These include 'classified' sites, which will allow you to post
your message up to 30 days for no charge. You will have to watch
your desire to post across the categories with many of them as
you will be quickly banned from any postings if you do so. I am
so tired of seeing the same advertisement in every category from
someone that by doing so, appears to be very desperate. I would
never consider even checking out what they are touting for this
reason. IF they were getting good results, they would not have
to spam the site in the first place. By spamming the site, they
show me the product is non-productive and they are desperate to
make a buck, or they either don't care or don't know what they
are doing. Why would I spend good money on some program where
the person representing it is so un-ethical?
For example: I was doing some promotions for one of my clients
that is a service company. When I posted them under the
'services' category, I noticed that there were many
advertisements there for things like Casino's, home business
opps, and things of that same nature. Let's face it, if I were
to go to a classified site and were looking for a business
services company, which one would I click on anyway? This also
makes me wonder if the owner of the classified site even pays
attention or if they are running it like an FFA type of site and
that is for the e-mail captures. Yes, some still think others
will really read what they have sent to their 'junk' e-mail box.
Are classified sites 'dead' then. NO, not yet, but if this trend
continues they will soon go the route of the FFA's. That will be
sad, indeed, as the abuse by the posting parties will ruin
another still great place to post your url's.
2. Even if you use a submitter, you will want to go to the mail
box you have entered in the submission to check for 'validated'
responses. These are the ones that require you to 'confirm' your
posting by clicking on a hyperlink text and then re-entering
your e-mail address that you used for the posting. I love these
as they tell me that MY advertisement will not be competing with
a thousand 'spam' postings. After awhile, you will know which
ones they are.
For example: Submit to 'scrub the web' and you will have to go
thru this routine. 'Scrubby' is great because they will also
tell you the status of any previous submission. If you use a
submitter that allows you to select the engines to submit to and
if you know your current with some like 'Scrubby' then you can
take it off the list. Exactseek and Websquash are a couple of
others that come to mind also.
3. Manual submissions: Some engines will only take manual
submissions, even if they are on the list of engines of the
submitter you are using. Again, you will, after a period of
time, know which these are and if you are smart, will save them
as a 'favorite' on your browser, in a separate folder, for when
time or your url changes content. Guess what? Even MSN still has
a manual free submission site, if you know where to find it.
There are some other great engines that are out there and if you
are doing your submissions every day, then you will find your
'favorites' also. I like http://searchwarp.com/ among others,
because I can submit my url's there and my articles too.
4. Find places that offer you a wide choice of the types of
sites to submit to. I have a few on my 'Free stuff' page that
you can access at my site http://www.cpucash.net As you go down
the various listings of sites for submission, you will always
find a few that are no longer valid or no longer take
submissions, but have not notified the listing places or
submitters. Take these with a grain of salt and keep moving on.
5. Word of mouth is always a good avenue to pursue. You should
be proud and knowledgeable enough about what you are promoting
to tell everyone you know about it in a causal manner, of
course, with a good testimony about what it has done for you in
return for your investment. If your product or service will not
stand up to the light of day, then what makes you think others
will take your offer?
6. Safe list Safe list are great and many swear by them. Many
make a very good living by using them only. The key to this is
your 'headline' being able to get the attention of those that do
look at the other's listings. Then you have to make your spiel
for your offer, short and to the point but good enough to make
them want to 'click' on your url for more information. Here, you
can get submitters that only go to safe lists. The only
drawbacks are if the members are indeed reading the postings and
if the owners are not spamming you with there 'solo ads'.
Remember, many of the owners own more than one safe list and if
they send you a daily 'solo ad', then you will get many repeats
of the same thing. The ethical owners will only send you an
admin message once a month or so and only put the 'solo ads' in
the 'safe list' newsletter or up-date and keep the admin
messages to reflect what you expect them to be, like new
features etc. I made the mistake of belonging to a couple of
safe list where the owners were ethical. When I assumed all were
the same and actually gave them my personal e-mail as my
'contact' e-mail, was I ever sorry. Do not make this mistake and
use a separate e-mail box as your contact box for these also.
One good submitter that I use, but here use a different address
for your contact e-mail is:
http://thesubber.com/sub/index.php?userid=rnixon
I love to use the sites that have the listings for search
engines, classifieds, and even FFA's in some sort of
'descending' order, so I can do all the 'A's' one one day, all
the 'B's' on another and so on. I like to see the sites that are
monitored like DMOZ and validated e-mail sites. IF you get your
site 'rated' for viewing by the general public, especially kids,
then more and more sites will accept your submission. This
rating can be put in your meta tags and the spiders that look
for this will be more than happy to include your url in the
lisings.
Most of all, keep doing your submissions every day and your
efforts will pay off. Work your programs and listen to the
advice and training the better ones give you. Remember, they
want you to achieve because as doing so not only do you make
money, they do also by the residual income they get. Any
associate program worth the investment today will give you
commission on many tiers of your downline, or whatever they
desire to call it. Promote,Promote and Promote more, but promote
smarter, not longer or foolishly.