Once you have built and uploaded your home business website the next step is to start promoting it both offline and online. Offline methods include putting your web address on your business cards, stationary, brochures, flyers, pamplets, home sign, automobile or whatever literature you can. Online methods generally start with submitting your home business website to search engines and directories.
For those of you who either have a website now or are planning to have one in the future, you will obviously want your website to be found in these search engines and directories.
You will therefore have to at some point decide whether you want to submit your site to each individual engine and directory manually, pay a submission service to do it for you, buy site submission software, or use one of the free submission services on the internet.
Submitting to each individual search engine and directory manually is quite easy to do but can be somewhat time consuming. To do this, you simply visit each site individually and look for the "Add URL" or "add a website" link which is usually located at the very top or bottom of each site. Then just click the button and add your URL. In some cases you will have to add a title, description and possibly other information. For the directories such as Yahoo and Open Directory Project, also known as DMOZ, you will be required to visit the relevant category first. Be careful to choose the right category. If you pay a submission service to do this for you they can save you a lot of time and will usually do a slightly better job with the keywords and descriptions based on their know-how. If you choose to do it yourself, a good place to start is directoryguide dot com and searchenginecolossus dot com.
Another method is to buy software such as Submit Wolf. If you are only promoting a single site, I do not recommend purchasing this software because it is rather expensive and time consuming for a novice to learn. If you have an older computer this software will chew up a lot of resources while it is running and slow down your computer performance. On the plus side it does submit to a rather large number of sites. This can boost your page rank or popularity. That leaves us with the freebie submission services that exist around the net. There are number of them available, and they vary in quality. The way it works is you fill out one form and the service submits that information to all the engines on it's list. I do not recommend using them if your whole business is built around your site, but for many sites they are adequate.
The problem is that some search engines block these automated submissions automatically(they want you to personally visit their site), and they are ineffective for most directories which require that you navigate to the pertinent category first. Also, each engine allows a differing amount of keywords and requires different types of information. Some of the more popular services include submitexpress.com, which will submit your site to 40 search engines for free, addme.com which will submit your site to Google, Subjex, Alexa, Scrub The Web, FAST Search AllTheWeb, LookSeek, ExactSeek, Jayde, and a few others for free, addpro.com submits to 20+ top search engines using an automatic service that is easy to use, and quickregister.net which will submit your site to the major engines and directories if you put a small text link on your site.
If you go to ez2www.com there is a freebie site submission service there if you click "add url" at the bottom of the page. There are other free submission sites out there. Just go to your favorite search engine and type in "free search engine submission" and you will be presented with a list of such freebies.
About The Author
Aarons Freebies Search and Directory
http://www.aaronsfreebies.com/
To subscribe to The Freebie Update Newsletter send an e-mail to http://www.aaronsfreebies.com/ with 'subscribe' in the subject line. Newsletter
move in cleaning service Mundelein ..Writing articles for your site and for the use of... Read More
DMOZ is known all over the internet as being the... Read More
It's easy to forget the fundamental components of Web site... Read More
Every business owner want to attract more orders and have... Read More
The latest trend in online marketing focuses on local search.... Read More
Promotion... also known as selling. Not an easy task in... Read More
1. Selling To Everyone Means You Sell to No OneIf... Read More
As a small business owner are you looking at promotional... Read More
Making money with your web site is the dream and... Read More
Web site owners are realizing Jack Humphrey's Power Linking isn't... Read More
In many cases when you start a new website you... Read More
Here's ten simple yet POWERFUL ideas for you to reflect... Read More
How would like to have an email list of thousands... Read More
Writing articles and submitting them to free content sites is... Read More
This could be the most amazing article to ever be... Read More
Promoting a Website is not an easy task. New Website... Read More
Congratulations! You and your designer have just finished creating your... Read More
The first step to starting a profitable online business of... Read More
Would you attempt to use a cell phone with a... Read More
It's a fact. While most link partners are scrupulously honest... Read More
How can one get a good ranking in the major... Read More
Writing articles for submission and distribution on the internet is... Read More
Let's face it, getting (and keeping) a good Google... Read More
Contests and Sweepstakes.They are web advertising magnets that draw huge... Read More
1. Use reward programs to keep people revisiting your web... Read More
insured cleaning company Highland Park ..Reading the postings in different Newsgroups it becomes clear that... Read More
We get so caught up with internet marketing and "web... Read More
You know the drill. Everybody claims that in order to... Read More
It is estimated that it can take the average consumer... Read More
If you want your customers to keep coming back To... Read More
Would it surprise you to know that Compaq Computer? outsources?... Read More
Directories are the best means for getting related links and... Read More
1. Give people a free subscription to your e-zine. Almost... Read More
Until recently, audio, video, Flash, and static graphics were all... Read More
Do what I did. Learn these 10 insiders' ad writing... Read More
Culture and Website Localization With the rise... Read More
You have invested your time and money into putting up... Read More
Webmasters are always looking for ways to increase their traffic... Read More
A back-end product is a product that you attempt to... Read More
The Web is constantly growing and changing. The key issue... Read More
If you are website owner and you have begun exchanging... Read More
Giving away content is a powerful way to get free... Read More
As an authorative hub a link from a DMOZ directory... Read More
Success in business thrives on ideas.The more creative you're the... Read More
Does your web site's visitors keep on hitting the back... Read More
The following traffic generating ideas do not require costly set-up... Read More
Writing articles for submission and distribution on the internet is... Read More
Many people, in a rush to spike sales through the... Read More
Keeping it clean could give you a boost.By Mark White... Read More
Many business owners and online marketing experts focus their efforts... Read More
Web Site Promotion |