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10 Ways To Extend The Reach Of Your Site
Pricing AdvertisingYou might have an attractive web site with great products, but your site will sit untouched in cyberspace without ..... ...... subtly ask those who bookmark your site to place a shortcut on their desktops.
Ezine or Newsletter You can reach and keep reaching your site's visitors by building your own opt-in list newsletter or ezine. Broaden the scope of your site by offering diverse information in these publications.
Viral eBooks and Reports These can be simple 'how-to' ebooks on topics related to your site. Include links to your website and build name recognition as well as tageted traffic.
Forum Posting Becoming a regular poster on all the online forums will give your site greater exposure and build site or brand recognition. More importantly, if you offer helpful and well informed information your site will acquire a resident expert - you!
Off-line Advertising Placing your site's logo or URL in off-line places, billboards, t-shirts, caps, but try to resist the latest trend - putting
URLs on body parts! Off-line exposure will greatly extend the reach of your site.
Burning CDs Burning your best programs or information on CDs, DVDs or disks and distributing these around to all interested parties will create more recognition. Great for reaching non-online computer users.
RSS Feeds and Blogs This may prove to be the granddaddy of ways to extend your site. The original name for RSS stood for 'Rich Site Summary' - you make a summary of your website and syndicate it to all interested parties. Other webmasters will take your syndicated RSS feeds and place them on their sites. You create mini satellite sites of your content all over the web!
In addition, as your site expands and grows, other opportunities will present themselves... in traditional media such as TV, Radio and Print advertising. Starting an affiliate program for your site is another option you may want to consider. An affiliate program can greatly expand the reach of your site. So too, will starting mirror sites in different languages or countries.
As you can plainly see, there are countless ways to extend the reach of your site. However, just trying a few of these will boost your site's creditability and visibility, bringing in more targeted leads and traffic. So it's your move, don't just let your site sit there, start implementing some of what you're just read.
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