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-like sites.
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.
The Submit your content page from Google gives also a liste of services where you can promote your content.
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.
Google gadgets.
Make a mod for phpBB, a plugin or a template for a CMS
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.
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.
Choose a software in the list
of CMS.
Some
knowledge about CSS could be useful.
Create a theme or template or an extension for Firefox
The authors of the best extensions for Firefox 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.
Open an account on Twitter
It usually takes time before obtaining a hearing on Twitter. But it is a source of traffic in several ways. When you are following other accounts, you let them know you. Then the search engine brings you visitors. Then your followers will ensure the promotion of your updates. (All this jargon is familiar to regulars of the site).
The account on Twitter for scriptol.com is Scriptol.
Launch an ad campaign
Register on the an advertisement 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.
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!
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