3 quick tips to boost your online presence
Got an email address? Got a website? Great. But that’s just the beginning.
If you want to get more visibility online, you need to do a little more to build your Web presence. Here are some tips that will help sprinkle your name all over the Internet – and they won’t cost you a dime.
- Start a blog – even if you have a website. Why? Because search engines love blogs. Each time you add an entry to your blog, Google and other search engines view this as new content, and they notice it. Thus, 5 little blog entries get the same attention from Google as 5 new web pages! – which translates into higher ranking for you on Google’s search results page.
You can set up a blog in a few minutes (OK, maybe an hour if you’re really fussy about how it looks) at blogger.com or wordpress.com. - Leave comments on other blogs and on news sites. Blogs and news sites invite readers to comment, usually at the bottom of each item. If you find an article stimulating, or if you have something substantive to add, type in your comment. At the end, add your full name and a link to your website or blog. If you have written a book, include the title.
You can start right now, by posting a comment to this blog entry.
When other readers see your comments, they may respond and/or click on the link to your website. You may also get the attention of journalists who wrote news stories to which you commented. If they like what you said, they may want to interview you for a future news story.
Here's a comment that I recently posted to the New York Times. - Write brief articles and submit them to article directories such as ezinearticles.com, selfgrowth.com and goarticles.com. Be sure to include your name, website and link at the end of the article. Your article is added to their database. Website owners, ezine and newsletter publishers search these databases for interesting items to post in their own publications.
If your article is picked up, you don’t get paid, but you do get in front of audiences that you would not otherwise have access to. You never know where it’s going to turn up. My articles have appeared on gardening websites, celebrity blogs, and other unlikely places.
If you have a new site or are launching a new site consider following these steps and you would end up in gaining huge free traffic. Always submit your site to free search engines. Once the links are indexed, it becomes easy to optimize the site. Write good content and submit your site to social book marking sites as del.ico.us, digg, myspace, simpy, reddit etc. Create blogs on different sites and regularly keep on updating them, Try adding useful and unique content, Visitors are always looking for useful and unique content.
ReplyDeleteSubmit your site to free web directories, search engines, niche directories, and high page rank directories, authority directories as DMOZ, yahoo, and Google directory.
Write articles on your subject and submit in article directories. It is usually seen that articles provide permanent back links. Place adds on free classified sites
Make RSS feeds and syndicate your sites content. Submit your feeds on RSS directories
If any page is missing or is not found or 404 error redirect that page to index page or any other important page
Offer something free on your site be it free newsletter, free articles-books, RSS feeds
Participate in link exchange
Add your site to Google webmasters account
Create xml site map
Leave comments on blogs with your sites link
Create a guest book on your site
You tube and pod casts are also an excellent way to launch viral campaigns.
Send emails with description of your company
Advertise on Craig list and gum tree
Submit in forums with link to your site
Ask bloggers to write about your services or products
Submit in deep link directories
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