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Creating Your Website's Promotional Strategy
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Article Submission Sites:
ideaMarketers - http://www.ideamarketers.com/
Free Content - http://www.certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml
Ezine Articles - http://www.ezinearticles.com/add_url.htm
Search Engines:
Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/
AltaVista - http://www.altavista.com/av/content/addurl.htm/
Hotbot - http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.asp/
Lycos - http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html/
Excite - http://www.excite.com/info/add_url/
InfoSeek - http://infoseek.go.com/AddUrl'pg=SubmitUrl.html/
WebCrawler - http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url/
NorthernLight - http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html/
Promotional Exchanges:
To set up some promotional exchanges with similar websites,
visit a Search Engine and type in a keyword that best describes
your website. Visit some websites that are similar to yours, but
not in competition. Contact the webmaster to discuss your
promotional exchange. This may be a link exchange, joint
venture, or whatever you both decide.
Your miscellaneous promotions will include; running a press
release, joining traffic generating programs, buying promotional
products and advertising in newspapers, magazines, etc.
Press Release:
CanadaOne provides a free interactive press release builder.
http://www.canadaone.com/promote/pressrelease.html
Gebbie Press provides over 10,000 links to print and electronic
media on the Internet.
http://www.gebbieinc.com/
Dr. Kevin Nunley will write your press release and send it to
5,000 media.
http://coldfusion.affiliateshop.com/Link3.cfm'AID=004436
Gap Enterprises will enable you to send your press release to
over 7,600 media. You write your press release or they'll write
it for you.
http://www.gapent.com/pr/
Traffic Generating Programs:
Join some traffic generating programs to build a network of
websites all linking to your website.
http://www.web-source.net/web/Mega_Traffic_Generators/
Promotional Products:
IDit Plates - Put your web address on your vehicle. IDit Plates
are a great way to continuously promote your web site. They
look like chrome and blend in well with your vehicle.
http://www.iditplates.net/new/2711/index.html
Magnetic Signs - Full size magnetic signs for your vehicle. Get
a customized sign that magnetically adheres to each side of
your vehicle, advertising your website.
http://www.magneticsigns.com/
iPrint - Professional printing over the Internet.
http://www.iprint.com/cgi-shl/index.cgi'shop=5072
PromoCity - Add your logo to any of over 500 promotional items.
http://www.promocity.com/
Offline Promotions:
Place ads in newspapers, magazines, on the radio, TV, etc.,
Visit these links for complete listings:
NewsDirectory Newspapers
http://www.ecola.com/news/press/
Newspapers Online
http://www.newspapers.com/
Commercial Magazine Publishers
http://www.writelinks.com/resources/pub/Pubs-mags.htm
Once you've created your promotional webpage, open it up in
your browser and add it to your favorite places or bookmark it
for easy daily access. Set up a specific day for your weekly
and monthly promotions and perform your miscellaneous
promotions as needed.
Once you've implemented your promotional strategy and
continuously work it each day, you'll be amazed with the results
of your efforts. Consistency will be the key to driving massive
traffic to your site.
About the Author Shelley Lowery is the moderator of Article Announce Writer
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