After a website is built it is important strategy to do a few bits of promotion. This is normally realtively easy, free and is mainly done so that people will come and visit your website.

There is no point having a website if people don’t come to it. Use these free promotion tips, promotion tools & promotion services and get promoting your websites today.

Free Website Promotions Tips

Before you submit urls of your web site or individual web pages to search engines and directories, ensure that your website is running properly and that all links are working correctly.

The all of the best websites have text that has been search engine optimised to be friendly and keyword rich. Do your [1] research before you start writing the content. Find what phrases people use when they do a search for your type of product or service.

Help people visit your small business by adding your business address to the [2] street-directory.com.au [3] directory and after doing so you can add a link from your site to this new listing so people can see a map and get directions from where they are to where you are. This information is often useful on the contact us page.

How to use Google & Yahoo! Sitemaps

You want people to see all the websites page. Use the [4] free XML Sitemap Generator to create a google compliant sitemap.xml file, a yahoo urllist.txt file and a standard html sitemap.html file.

Then [5] tell google webmaster sitemaps about the new sitemap.xml file that your have uploaded to your webserver. Remember to upload the empty GOOGLE*********.html file so that you can view your websites statistics.

Having uploaded the urllist.txt file to your server, you can now [6] tell yahoo about your website and hopefully before too long they will come past and have your website included in their listings.

Free Website Submission Services

Submit your web site url to other good search engines and websites directories. Below is a list of mostly free general web directories.

• [7] dmoz.org Open Directory Project
• [8] search.msn.com MSN Search
• [9] au.dir.yahoo.com Yahoo! Australia & NZ directory
• truelocal.com.au Search local. Get local.
  
• [10] getlocal.com.au Australian Local Search
• [11] sensis.com.au The search engine for Australians.
• [12] communityguide.com.au Australia Community Guide
• [13] webwombat.com.au WebWombat’s Express Registration
• [14] hotfrog.com.au Australian Business Directory
• [15] firmlist.com The Firm List
• [16] allthebest.com.au All The Best Australian Websites

After you have submitted your website to these free promotion services, also do a search for the key phrases people will use to find your type of business. Look through the results for specific directories related to your business, and submit your website to these listings too.

Website Promotions Tools

To promote a website, it is best done manually. There are a few tools to make the promotion submissions more worth while.

[17] Character counters are useful to ensure your listing is more controlled. Always think about the title & description tags and use these to your advantage.

To have a nice google listing, the recommended maximum number of characters in a title meta tag is 65 characters while the recommended maximum number of characters in a description meta tag is 155 characters.

Australian Website Promotions Company

These website promotion tips should be useful for all companies, but if you want to be [18] Number 1 in google and other search engines, then it will work out cheaper to [19] hire a SEO consultant to get your website to the top — and fast!

Contact us today for a free website promotions quote.

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