Submit to Search Engines and Promote the Site

[This is Step 12 of the Website Building Tutorial]

Once your site is live you need to tell the world about it or no one is going to visit it. Having a live site is just a tiny part of having a successful website.

Basically you need to get the search engines to know that you exist and display your site when people type in your main keywords.

This can be done by submitting your site to search engines and getting other sites to link to your site.

Some of the steps involved in promoting your site are:

  • Submit your site to search engines like Google, yahoo etc. There are some promotion tools available to help you with this.
  • Submit your site to directories like DMoz and others.
  • Get other related sites to link to yours. A tool like SEO Elite can help you with this.
  • Build a sitemap. This is an xml file that can be submitted to search engines to help them to index all the pages on your site. This is an important step. If it seems too technical or complicated for you, some hosting service providers like Site Build It create one for you automatically.
  • Get your site bookmarked on social bookmarking sites and use other Web 2.0 tactics.
  • Submit articles to article directories. This is called article marketing.
  • Put up paid listings of your site on search engines.
  • Explore advertising options.

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Website Building Tutorial Menu

Overview: Components of a successful website

Step 1: Determine the Website's Niche

Step 2: Choose Website Building Tools

Step 3: Hosting Server - decide on where you are going to host the site

Step 4: Buy domain name

Step 5: Plan the site

Step 6: Design the layout

Step 7: Convert the layout into an html template

Step 8: Create the pages as per the site plan

Step 9: Install any additional scripts on the server

Step 10: Link the pages

Step 11: FTP the files to the hosting server

Step 12: Submit to search engines and promote the site

Step 13: Website Monetization

Step 14: Maintain the site

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