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General Website Promotion and Maintenance
Promoting your site
In addition to submitting your site to search engines, here are
other things you can do to promote your website:
- Buy a domain name that is short and easy to
remember, and host your website at that address. A domain name
can be as cheap as $10.00 U.S. a year. Some sites such as Netscape
will host your website free if you buy a domain name from them.
The best deal is
Doteasy.
If you buy a domain name through them they will give you free
hosting. I've been using them for several sites for years with
no major problems and good support. Disclosure:
I'll get 5 bucks if you sign up to them through my site (thanks!).
Believe me though, they are the best. Email me if you have any
questions, or check out their packages on their site.
- Include your website address (and a logo if
you have one) in your email signatures.
- Have your website address on your business
card and letterhead.
- Post your website to message boards and lists
that promote websites
- Tell your friends, family and business associates.
Maintaining your Website
Once your website is created, there are some things you should
do to keep the website looking fresh.
This will to encourage visitors to return, and allow you to keep
up your web building skills:
- Improve the design and navigation as you learn
what changes might be useful. Like writing, web publishing is
a learning process that never ends. Once you finish a website,
you will undoubtedly learn more about web building and want to
improve your site.
- Try to add new, useful content.
- Update old content if it becomes out of date.
Remember to change the front page and navigation to reflect any
additions you have made to the site.
- Check all your links regularly to see if they
are still working.
- Try to refresh the design by changing colors
or pictures on your site.
- Resubmit your site to search engines occasionally.
Twice a year is fine. Remember to use a false email address when
you submit so you don’t start getting junk mail sent to
your personal email.
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