Where to get it:

Search Engines:



 YellowWhite Gives you a free regional yellow pages type listing. This can be very nice if you want to do business near home.

Zabang A new search engine started by an internet marketer.

Website optimization and marketing service and search engine positioning services. Affordable and Professional search engine optimization (SEO) firm, providing web site optimization & search engine positioning services tailored to your needs and requirements. Free website analysis!

Searchengine Colossus International directory of search engines, many of whom will list your site for free or in return for a reciprocal link.

Free and inexpensive advertising:

Press Base.com offers a free Press Release Distribution Service.

Pay Per Click Advertising
Inexpensive text link advertising

Free and inexpensive classified ads. Make sure you have spyware enabled before going there, though!

Buy Text Link Ads to improve targeted traffic and link popularity. www.Text-Link-Ads.com

 HighRankings.com Nice low-key newsletter with valuable info on how to get listed.

Search Engine Submission Tips
Free webmaster resources and tools including Search Engine Positioning, traffic boosting and more.

You can promote your business for free, get free scripts to automate your business or get access to useful knowledge at Freebonanza.com By putting a link to Free Bonanza, you can offer a free service to your visitors.

Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers

Buy Links
Free pagerank based link exchange, buy or sell text linkS.

Email Tools:

 Royal Responder

Adlandpro Autoresponder and enewsletter software
Automatic email responses to inquiries. Offers a limited FREE service, then a more robust one for $9.95 a month. Important for responding quickly to leads and acknowledging orders. Gives an impression of professionalism.

Download Opt-in Email List And Bulk Email Marketing
Provide email marketing services, opt-in email list, email marketing software, direct marketing email, managed email marketing campaign.

HitsLink.com Get advanced site traffic analysis, including hundreds of statistics on visitors and their behavior. more...

[Publicize offline]

Submit your site to Directories, optimize for Search Engines

No one will come to your site if they don't know it's there. That's why there are people who make their living doing Search Engine Optimization, or SEO for short. Here are some basics.

First, make sure your page text and meta tags are optimized to be found by search engines. For a tutorial on how to optimize your pages, go to Search Engine Tutorial for Web Developers. A good, free tool for testing hw well your page is optimized is instantposition.com.

Submit your site to the FyberSearch directory, free of charge, from here - Email Address - Website Address

You don't have to submit your site to the major search engines like Google. They'll find your site if you do everything else right. However, there are several directories that are human-administered. Some of the important ones to which you should submit your URL are: Yahoo, the Open Directory Project, or DMOZ, which is used by many other search engines, Skaffe, searchit.com, Josh's Sanctum, Illumirate and JoeAnt. They're all free, but since they're run by humans, it will take a while to get your site approved. Commercial sites should submit to Jayde and Thomas Regional. Gimpsy has a free submission option, but charge $40 to list you within 72 hours. GO AIO has both free and paid submissions. Again, if you're willing to pay, you get listed sooner.

There are hundreds of search engines that will list you in return for a reciprocal link, such as Homerweb - The Best Search Engine (or so they claim). There are also directory-type sites, similar to search engines, that will put your link on other people's sites in exchange for your putting their link page on your site. You can sign up for one of them right here. It takes a few minutes to enter your website information and set up the links page, but a "bulk link" facility like this gives you lots of instant links.

Some search engines charge you to be listed. Yahoo charges an upfront fee, but you can get around that by working on your link exchanges. If you've got a lot of sites linking to you, they'll spider you (crawl over your site) without a fee.

There are services that will submit your site to numerous search engines. Some are free. They're not a substitute for submitting to the top directories individually. For a list of the major search engines on the web, see Your Website UP.

Be careful. You can be deleted from a search engine by using some of these "we'll submit you every minute to 9000 search engines" companies. Search engines don't like to be bombarded any more than you do. Several such submissions will ban you from the DMOZ site altogether.

Finally, you can pay to buy keywords or preferred placement in search engines. Google^TM, of course, is the premier Search Engine. Advertising with them gives you numerous targeted hits. They let you set your own ad budget, which can be as little as $1.00 a day. Kanooodle^TM is one of the biggest reasonably priced search engines. Both Google and Kanoodle offer a free "search the web" box to put on your web pages.

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Publicize offline

Add your URL to all your preprinted materials, including

billing statements letterhead business cards brochures

fliers print newsletters print, radio or TV ads

Send out announcements

A new or revamped website is a good excuse to send a mailing to customers and prospects. Mail out a postcard or flyer announcing your URL. Offer special incentives to people who go to the site.

Send out "internet only" special sale mailings

Or offer a free item, such as a pen or a Tshirt to people who visit the site.

Talk about your website.

Let people know it's there. Frequently, it's easier to remember a URL than a phone number. Tell people they can find your address or phone number on the website (and make sure it's there!) Use it in your ads. Instead of repeating your phone number three times and hoping people listening to your radio ad will memorize it, give your URL.

Email, articles and ezines There are techniques called viral marketing that enable you to use the web-like features of the internet to get friends to refer friends or webmasters to refer visitors. More >