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Finding and Using web promotion services for your Home Business siteOnce 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 major search engines and web directories. That being the case, you will have to at some point address the issue of 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 that exist on the internet. Ways to Submit your Home Business siteSubmitting to each engine and directory manually is relatively 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 site" button which is usually located at the very top or bottom of each site. Then just click the button and add your URL (UNiform Resource Locater). In some cases you will have to add a title, description and/or personal information so you may want to write this in advance in Notepad or Wordpad so you can simply cut and paste it as necessary. For the directories such as Yahoo and Open Directory Project(ODP), also known as DMOZ, you will be required to visit the pertinent 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. Nevertheless, I feel that everybody has the ability to submit their site to the search engines themselves if they choose to. A good place to start is directoryguide dot com and searchenginecolossus dot com.Another option is to buy submission software such as Submit Wolf. If you are only promoting one 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 lot of large and small search engines and directories, as well as free for all sites. This can boost your page popularity, especially in the short run. That leaves us with the freebie submission services that exist around the internet. There are number of them to choose from, 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 home business is built around your website, 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, InfoTiger, NerdWorld, Aeiwi, Walhello, LifeTips, and EntireWeb for free, addpro.com submits to 20+ top search engines using an automatic service that is pretty easy to use, and quickregister.net which will submit your site to the major search engines and directories if you put a small text link on your site(I noticed this service still has some old search engines listed which are no longer active). 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. I recommend this one particularly because it is new and it's submissions include the Wisenut search engine, which you normally have to pay to get in! There are other free submission sites out there. Just go to your favorite engine and type in "free search engine submission". I just included some of the more popular ones. |
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