Creating and publishing your website is the easy part of your work. The hard part is getting target audience. This is a list of great ways to improve your online presence.
- Use Technorati to promote your product (write a blog entry and promote that).
- Write an introduction to your new application and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.
- Make easy to be bookmarked on del.icio.us so you get into the popular page.
- Submit your web application to Techcrunch.
- Submit your web to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
- Submit your web application to search engines like DMoz.
- Create a MySpace account and advertise your site.
- Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories (UK Small Business Directory, BT Tradespace, Biz-Dir, Redcog.net).
- Submit your web application to Read/WriteWeb.
- Submit your RSS feeds to sites likeFeedBurner, Jordomedia, Squidoo, Feedboy
- Write and submit articles.
- Add a bookmark option to your website/blogs.
- Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
- Send press releases using PRWeb.com.
- Exchange widgets with other similar web applications in order to promote each other.
- Publicize your site on related forums.
- A forum or chatrooms will give your users a reason to come back to your site.
- Add a link to your site in the signature of every forums you post on.
- Find a quality blog and leave there a comment with a link back to your site.
- Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords.
- Propose something for free. People like this.
- Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, in this way you can be recommend easily to other people.
- Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product.
- Create a promotional video and upload it to YouTube and Google Video then encourage people to share it.
- Be attentive to the spelling mistakes.
- Offer as many ways as possible to contact you: MSN, Skype, Yahoo, emails, phone and a real address.
- Write subjects on Wikipedia.
- Put downloadable content on your site.
- Response to your customer’s emails promptly.
- Ask bloggers or other competent peoples to review your site or product.
- Select carefully your desired keywords and use Google AdWords
- Sponsor a Wordpress theme.
- Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
- Buy enough hosting to have a fast site.
- Link to other sites, especially if they are relevant.
- Include a Feedburner button on your site and people will subscribe easily to your feed.
- Ask your friends to give you honest feedback on your site.
- Elude technologies like Active X and Java.
- Buy advertising from Stumble Upon
- Advertise your site on Craigslist.
- Write a rich descriptive title at the top of each of your pages. Users and search engines like this.
- Submit photos and pictures to online photo albums like Flikr, Photobucket.com, YahooPhotos.
- Add a Bulletin to your MySpace account.
- Upload your product feed to Froogle.
- Search unanswered questions on Yahoo! Answers and add your site there.
- Translate your websites/blogs, especially in Chinese.
- Find domain names that get traffic, purchase them, and have them redirect to your website.
- Review some related products on epinion.
- Encourage readers to comment on your blogs.
- Become friends with editors of an offline publication.
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