Tips to Improve Your Web Presence

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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Comments

sham said…
I have done many of the above mentioned points..