Awards,
Hot Sites Lists
Submit your Website URL to: Too Cool / Awards/ Hot
Sites / Hot Picks Links, such as Top 5%, Top 100, etc.Web
Awards
The Website Awards Worksheet is a free resource! It helps you
apply for Web awards and track your activities. Apply to over 700 Award Sites
around the world! Soliciting
Links
(Overview) Links on other websites can increase your traffic
in two ways: by giving potential visitors a way to find your website, and by increasing
your ranking in search engines which use link popularity as part of their formula.
Listings on popular websites can be a more significant source of traffic than
search engines for some websites! |
Many
other websites, email list serves or news groups have "links of the day/week",
or "featured websites". Use sites high profile sites to generate reviews,
and hits!
| New
Releases | Use
the description you created in STEP 2, and modify for
specific audiences - local, regional and nation audiences. Also, draft news release
when you have special announcements or launch new initiatives on the site. Web
Public Relations
Press Releases are very popular
way to let newspaper, magazine, radio, and television editors about your web site.
Don't forget this tried and true technique for disseminating announcements about
your site. Offline
Website Promotion
To
begin with, make sure that all of your correspondence, sales literature, business
cards, advertising and conventional promotional efforts include the URL of your
website. Make the website URL as important as your address, your phone or your
fax number. Press
Release
Press associations receive hundreds of releases daily, with
more than half of them thrown away. If you frame the event from a readership perspective,
along the lines of what Editor's are looking for, you'll do better than most.
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