How To Make A Website | How to promote your website
 Why do you want to promote a website?
You have finished conceptualizing, planning, registered a domain name, got website hosting and eventually physically making your website. Congratulations for doing all those steps.
The next step will be to submit your website to all the major search engines and directories. The reason why you would want to promote your website is to get website visitors. Without website traffic or visitors you wont be able to make money online or promote yourself, products, services or ideas.
Submit your site to the following:
Major search engines
Major website directories
read more about submitting websites here
There are other meta search engines and directories that you can also submit to. You cannot just rely on the search engines solely, for your website traffic so you will have to use some other methods.
It is a good idea to have a promotional strategy in place and work on it as much
as possible.
Ways to promote your website
- Write free quality articles that can be published by
other webmasters on their websites.
- You will have your Name and website address
at the bottom of the article.
- Join discussion boards and share your expertise. You can promote
your website from here.
- Get your articles in to E-zine Advertising or Ad swapping.
- Exchange links with other webmasters. Preferably a similar topic
website.
- Write an e-book and distribute it for free
- Promote your website offline
- Word of mouth is still a good way to promote your site.
- Participate in Forums
- Get yourself a blog and write articles regularly
- Classifieds eg. Craigslist, Gumtree
I just mentioned a couple of ways to promote your website, but
there are many more.
Programs that you can use to promote your website
Google Adwords
Google Adwords is a program where you can buy adspace on other website owners websites. Adwords has a bidding tool where you get placement in Google search engine serps.
Text Link Ads
With text link ads you can buy links and place it on other people's websites, that are listed in the text link ads database. You can choose you niche and buy links with them.
Happy website promotion :)
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