10 Means to Publicize a Web site

And to let it become popular! You have just created a Web site, nobody does visit it or on the contrary your site is old, but is very little known, how to make it reach notoriety? It is possible with some tricks, some of they requiring a little programming. Here is the list...

Directories

Adding your site on a quantity of directories is a solution of facility. However if an intelligent campaign is made, that can bring visitors, and backlinks to improve your position in results of search engines. Restrict you to 20 directories, take simply the best in the list. Choose the category precisely. Prepare a long and complete description of your site, which emphasizes it. Do not post same description on all the directories but vary the contents instead. List of directories on Dmoz. The list includes Dmoz and Botw.

Propose a review of your site to magazines

Many magazines, and more frequently those devoted to the Web, propose a list of Web sites to be viewed. Propose yours. If your site is accepted and that it is presented by the magazine, the number of visits will be enormous. That will last only a time, but you will collect backinks which will continue to provide visits.

Propose a scoop

Digg-likes and sites of news publish a summary of articles or documents on the Web, accompanied by a link on the site to find the full article.
Write an original article, containing exclusive information if possible, you can take a walk on official websites and collect statistics that could be used as a basis for the article. You are not ensured to go in home page, but your text will be displayed at least in the list of the new contributions and that will make visits, plus a lot of backlinks to help your positioning in results of search engines.
List of digg-likes.

Add an RSS feed

If your site is based on a CMS (Content Management System) like Wordpress or Dotclear, it is enough to click on a button to obtain the RSS file. Otherwise you can create this file with the Ara editor too, provided on this site, and with which is built the RSS feed of scriptol.com.
It will also be necessary to add on the home page a meta tag, as indicated in the chapter "Making the feed visible"? of the manual, so that navigators see the feed.
The editor of RSS feed.

Bookmark your site

Register on Delicious, Stumbleupon, and other sites of bookmarks. On these sites you can indicate the pages which you liked on the Web. Begin by bookmarking some of the best pages on your site, that can give to others the idea to do so, and bookmark best pages of others, that can also encourage them to visit your site.

Build a Google gadget

In the RSS part of this site, it is explained how to use the Custom RSS gadget to display a feed on a Web page. You can go further and create your own Gadget. That will bring a considerable number of visitors.
The article The Google Gadget to Display an RSS Feed gives you an example of gadget and all the links useful to create yours.

Make a mod for phpBB

phpBB is an example, that may be punBB, Wordpress, Dotclear, and any other CMS. Write a script for you, create something which you would like to add to the CMS that you use, and when it works perfectly, put it in the form of a mod, and post it on the site which will give the necessary instructions to do so. If your script is useful many visitors will come on your website.
Choose a software in the list of CMS.

Create a theme or template

For same software and without needing to program but with an ability in design art, share a theme. You ensure that you use the last version of the software, and draw to it a new look. Here also the site will indicate to you how to package and to distribute it. Write in the licence which one must keep the link on your site when the template is used and that will make a great number of backlinks and visits.
Some knowledge about CSS could be useful.

Program an extension for Firefox

The authors of the best extensions receive an amazing number of visits. There are tools to help to create an extension, but a little programming will be necessary. Some idea should be found at first, a functionality which you would like to add to the navigator and put you at work. Your site will quickly become popular.
Best extensions for Firefox and how to make an extension.

Launch an Adwords campaign.

Register on the Adwords site. Choose the prepaid option then transfer the amount which you wish to spend, and it will never be asked you more than what you decided to pay. The minimum is US$ 10.
Fix also the maximum amount which you want to pay for a click. You do not pay the impressions and there is usually one click for 200 impressions. Thus, if you define a maximum price for a click of 10 cent, you pay 10 cents each times 200 Net surfers see your advertisement!