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After creating a website the most important step that remains is promoting your website. Let me give you an outline of how you can do it.

Submitting to directories

The first step is to start listing your site with the most popular Internet directories. These Internet directories can send you subsequent amount of traffic and thus improving your ranking with the search engines. Make sure your site is listed with all major directories before you start working on the other aspects of website promotion.

Remember directories only accept websites that provide relevant and quality data. So make sure that your content is original and keep updating your content regularly. These directories are human edited and so you will need to pick the right category to submit and also comply with the regulations.

Submitting to the Open Directory Project

Make the Open Directory Project or DMOZ as your first step. Your website needs to have good and unique content in order to get accepted. But the editors with ODP review sites very quickly and they don’t reject a site unless there is a very good reason to do so. Also since submitting your site to ODP does not involve any cost it is the perfect way to start.

Submitting to Yahoo

Once you are accepted into the ODP make sure you get selected into the Yahoo directories. Now if you are running a commercial website it might require a substantial amount of cost but getting into Yahoo directories is worth it. Non commercial sites can get in free of cost but it might require submitting your site again and again before it actually gets selected.

Search engines

Once your website has actually got into Yahoo and ODP, it will already be receiving more traffic than before. Now, it’s time for the search engines. You have to understand how they work and then use them to bring more people to you.

Here are few points that will help you meet their criteria. It will definitely mean some work and but it the long run it will hold you in good stead. Following are a few simple search engine optimization techniques:
  1. Have a very simple and clean website design. The website should be user friendly and the navigation should be simple and clean. The website should not be loaded with graphics though graphics may make your page look good, but they may also make them slow.
  2. Do some keyword optimization, i.e. choose the correct keywords for your page. Choosing the right keywords will definitely help your page get a better ranking.
  3. Add META tags to all your pages, and don’t forget the META description tag, it is very important. Meta tags are lines of code that can be found between the <head> and the </head> tags. These tags tell the search engines what your site is about. The user cannot see these tags but they are important for the search engine. The Meta description tag is very important as it gets displayed just below the title of your page when your page gets displayed in the search results. A good description can encourage people to click on your page.
  4. Increase your link popularity. Having good content on your site will ensure that other webmasters would want to link to your site. It will also increase your traffic and thus increase your ranking. The more links point to your site the better.
More techniques

Now that you have got your website into important directories and it is also ranking in the search engines, you can use a few more techniques to promote your website on the Internet.
  1. If yours’ is a commercial website you can try using good banner advertisements. Though many people believe that banner ads don’t work, but using a good banner can really help, for example, offering a really good offer on your banner ad.
  2. Making your customers/visitors to your website helps a lot. Make sure your site is regularly updated, so that the visitors find something new when they come back. Make sure it I to navigate through your site and visitors can easily find what they are looking for. If yours’ is a commercial site then have some sort of post sale communication with your customers like a special offer etc.
  3. Running e-mail campaigns. Though they might not bring thousands of customers, but if done properly it will eventually increase customers. Email campaigns will also help you bring in return customers.
  4. Having a good newsletter helps in getting targeted traffic.
These simple and easy tips will help you promote your website. And once you have been able to achieve the result you’ll feel proud of what you did.

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