subject: Promote Your Website Today [print this page] A big part of website development is promoting your business online through your website. Learning how to promote your website can be one of the most important steps of this process. If you don't learn the basics your site might as well not even exist.
There are quite a few ways you can promote your site and get some much needed traffic for your business. There are even many things that cost little or no money and what can be better than free exposure!
Try finding blogs or websites in your industry and see if they would be willing to swap or exchange ads, or even links. This is a great way to build your rankings and to get some traffic as well as get your name out there.
You can find websites and blogs by doing a quick Google search in your industry, or even by meeting people through a local association. You can look up directory's of people online as well.
Another major issue with promoting your website is making sure your quality content gets spidered. One of the ways you can do this is make sure visitors, and spiders, can quickly get to your best content. Make sure you have links on your home page to your most important pages.
Your friends are also another great way to help promote your site. Take all the time and effort you have been putting into face book, Myspace, and all the other social media sites like twitter and start talking about your web site. If you have some great material and something people want you would not believe how many people will come to your site through social sites.
Remember links are one of the major ways search engines determine how trusted your web site is. So you can make your web site more trusted with the search engines by getting more links. Ask your friends with the social networks or with other web sites to link back to you.
Another great free way to promote your website is to get involved in the blog-o-sphere. There are lots of people that are constantly blogging about everything. Find people that are blogging in your industry and make constructive comments linking back to your web site when appropriate. This will get you some great traffic as people see you as an expert in your field as well as building your link profile.
Promoting your site is almost more important than building one so make sure to start promoting your site as soon as possible.
