If you’re launching a new site, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to share sites like Digg (
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Create a Yahoo Group (
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Create a MySpace (
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Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us (
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Create a Technorati (
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Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here (
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Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree (
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Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS feeds.
Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner (
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Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
Sign up to StumbleUpon (
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Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.
Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here (
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Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.
Tell your friends about your site. It’s free advertising init.
Speel cheek ur stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
Don’t worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.
Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
Advertise your site on Craigslist (
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Do NOT use frames.
Submit your site to DMOZ.org (
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Create an XML sitemap (http:/www.xml-sitemaps.com/) of your site and submit it to Google (
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Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
Ask a large breasted lady to wear one too.
Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you’re a publish, make some cash!
On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
Send out a newsletter!
Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
Don’t pay people to submit your site to search engines. It’s a waste of money.
YouTube (
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Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add “As Seen on TV” to your site!
Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.
Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it’s not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.
Learn about CSS. It’s the new HTML.
Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.
Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid
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If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a “Skip Intro” link.
Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.
Donate money to a charity and most will place a link on their site back to you.
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Abide to W3C standards (
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Your local community sports teams offer cheap, but highly effective sponsorship opportunities.
Publisise your site on related forums - but don’t spam!
Ask bloggers to write about your site or product - in return for a link of course.
Offer a competition related to something in the news - so football around the time of the World Cup etc.
Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.
Have a Sitemap on your site to allow users to navigate around quickly and to aid the search engines.
Have a nice keyword rich title at the top of each of your pages. Users and search engines both like descriptive titles.
Include a Feedburner button on your site so people can easily subscribe to your feed.
If you use PPC then create a landing page for each of your AdWords - it’ll boost your conversations no end.
Appear on Dragon’s Den.
Create a Press section on your site where can you store all your press releases, logos and banners.
Add a link to your site from within your eBay profile.
Ask your friends to give you honest feedback on your site.
The best way to find someone to do any kind of work on your site is through personal recommendation.
Gain exposure by submitting photos and pictures to Flikr (
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Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
Make sure it’s easy for your users to subscribe to your RSS feed.
Create a “lense” for your site on Squidoo (
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Ask friends, collegues and associates to “Favourite” your blog on Technorati (
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You can add a Bulletin to your MySpace account promoting your site that all your MySpace Friends will see.
Response to your customer’s emails promptly, even if it is with a simply auto-responder. No one likes to wait 3 or 4 days for an acknowledgement of their contact with you.
Get a professional Copywriter to give your site a once over. If you are on a tight budget, limit to the just the homepage.
Make a list, “Top 10″s work well. Update it regularly to give your visitors a reason to return.
What did you learn today? Tell other people and they might learn something too.
Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot (
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Deep link directories are an excellent way to promote inner pages of your site.
Meta tags might carry less weight than previously, but you should still have them on every page.
Ask your Gran for feedback on your site. Never ignore the silver surfers.
Include a “Add to your Technorati favourites” button on your site.
Google Analytics is free and will tell you all you need to know about who’s visiting your site.
Search engines will find you. Don’t pay money for your site to be “submitted”.
Don’t be afraid to link to other sites, especially if they are relevant and to highly respected sites.
Keep It Simple Stupid: use CSS to control layout, style and colours and use HTML text rather than graphics to represent text.
Validate (
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