Learn to promote your website

Hello World
So now you have created a website, parked it on some web server, and registered it. You waited for a day or two to let your website propagate through the entire Internet at which point when you entered your website URL (http://www.yoursite.TLD) in your browser address field and execute it, you were able to see it on the screen.

Happy as you can be, the hardest and best is yet to come. You have to let the world know you have just created a website.

On the surface, Internet Marketing seems easy. Who would not love to build some websites and suddenly people start sending you their money? That would be great!  But in reality, there is a lot of hard work that goes into making money online.

Before doing anything else, you should start your website promotion efforts by listing your site in the most popular Internet directories. The reason is that several major search engines index websites from these directories. They can send you substantial amounts of traffic and affect your ranking in various search engines.

Go back and read the chapter about website development to make sure you have done everything possible to make it easier to get listed in directories and search engines.

You can promote your website in the following steps:

Promote Your Website Through Link Popularity
More and more search engines are using link-popularity as a ranking method (Google is the originator of this technique). Under this system the ranking of your site depends in part on how many other pages link to yours, and how important those links are. That means that a secondary benefit of getting a link on major indexes is that it can improve your ranking on some search engines.

Create Sitemap For Promoting Your Website
Consider creating a site map page with text links to every page within your site. You can submit this page, which will help the search engines locate pages within your website. Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.

Write Articles To Promote Your Website
Website and blog experts have been using article marketing to drive traffic to their websites for years. Article marketing is not a new method by any means, but there are new techniques evolving every day in how you can maximize your article marketing efforts.

Promote Your Website Through Email, ebooks, autoresponder

Participate In Social Networking To Promote Your Website
Create a group of marketing guidelines or affiliates, invite your friends and prospects to join you. Read about social and business networks and use them accordingly to promote your website. People would much rather work with people who their friends know and trust.

Participate In Discussion Forums To Promote Your Website
If you plan to be a successful Internet marketer, there is no better place in the world for you to hang out than the forums that the internet marketing gurus frequent.

There are numerous forums on the internet and it is important to spend time searching for the more highly respected ones, which are well managed with good moderators who maintain the standard of the forum by strictly enforcing the rules.