Chapter 9

Promoting your Webpage for Maximum Positioning in the market

Getting your site listed for the first time can appear to be tricky the first time, but once you get the hang of what you need to do your webpage can be listed in as little as 2 days.
There is no great secret to this feat, what you do not want to do is solely rely on the site submission wizard at www.google.com/addurl as this is very likely not quick enough for the desired results. On the Google webpage it mentions that it can take up to six weeks to get
your paged indexed.

These methods apply to all the major search engines to get listed quickly:

Google relies on a software program that is called a Spider. The Spiders job is to go around the Internet following links, and looking for new ones. When they find a new link it will be added to the index, and then move on to the next link. It will carry on crawling all the websites looking for new links and content. Google places a lot of emphasis on its Google Page Rank technology. What this means is that a page with a higher rank will mean more to its index than one with a lower rank. In order for your website to get indexed quicker, and also get a higher rating, you need to find websites and pages with a high page rank.

If you haven’t already downloaded it go to Google and get the tool bar at http://toolbar.google.com/T4/ - this will show you the page rank.

Or, another option is to visit:

www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-search and make sure that you select the ‘order by pagerank’ in the drop down list. The following screen is a list of search results ordered by the page rank for the search term of ‘spanish villa’. What you have found is a listing of all
websites to do with ‘spanish villa’ with the highest page rank first.

Use SeoElite to Maximise your Site Rankings

Its a very time consuming task contacting many owners of websites. It could take someone many weeks to mount a comprehensive linking strategy that will enable their website to climb the search engineresults and get on the first page for a certain term. Fortunately the nice people at www.seoelite.com have released some software that will allow you to this automatically:

Using this software allows you to find all your competitors based on certain keywords, the contact information of the website, plus details of how many times you have emailed them.
This software is really powerful and allows you to automatically email thousands of website owners all in one go using a template. The other website owner would expect you to set up some kind of link page which links to their website. It is always a good idea to create this page on your site prior to making a link request. SEO Elite helps you to do this by creating a list of web addresses for you to add to your website.

Another Way To Get Listed

Here is a list of article directories that you can submit an article to:
http://article-niche.com
http://articles4content.com/
http://blogtelecast.com
http://dir.salon.com
http://news.collectors.org
http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl
http://superpublisher.com
http://www.amazines.com
http://www.articlealley.com
http://www.article-buzz.com
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.articlecube.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.article-directory.net
http://www.article-directory.net
http://www.article-emporium.com
http://www.articlefever.com
http://www.article-hangout.com
http://www.articletogo.com
http://www.articleworld.net
http://www.certificate.net/wwio
http://www.content-articles.com
http://www.directorygold.com
http://www.pagesnbytes.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.free-articles-zone.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.impactarticles.com
http://www.internethomebusinessarticles.com
http://www.isnare.com
http://www.jogena.com/articles/articleform.htm
http://www.magportal.com
http://www.newarticlesonline.com
http://www.niche-article-directory.com
http://www.sitereference.com
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/marketing-articledirectory.html
http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles
http://www.webarticles.com

Using the article website listing above, we can submit articles with our website address in them and we will have our page indexed in no time at all, it should be within a couple of days.

Your website can also be promoted in other places, and by using other methods:

• Get a listing in www.dmoz.org – it is the largest human edited directory on the internet.
• Adding your web address and descriptions to your signature when adding entries in to forums
• Use search engine optimization to get good organic rankings
• Ask similar type websites if they will exchange links with you. A resource page can be created on your site for links.
• Visit other people’s blogs and leave your signature as one of your entries with your web address in it.
• Create your own blog, and keep it updated regularly with new content. The theme of the blog should in keeping with the page
that you have created.
• Make an entry in Craigs List – www.craigslist.org/ - it is free and will stay on the web for 45 days.
• Visit www.bbc.co.uk and find a page that relates to the page that you have developed. And ask for a link to be created to your own blog – which will have a link to your sales page.
The BBC is very unlikely to link direct to a sales page. The BBC is a very well visited site, and could offer you some good traffic.
• Use Guerilla Marketing - the idea is to put advertising in people’s faces where they wouldn’t normally expect to see advertising.
• On your website have an option to send an email to a friend. It can be as simple as a mailto: command on the webpage, or you could use a system similar to http://tellafriendgenerator.com/
• Use Blogs to promote your site, and setup an RSS feed so that your content will be shown on other websites.

Create a Sitemap

You will need to get your website listed on Google to get the Googlebot to scan your website for keywords and search terms so that your page will appear in the organic listing down the left hand side. To assist in making this happen quicker, as well as the above get a sitemap created. To create an xml site map of your completed website and follow the instructions at www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ - you can get a free sitemap created by going to www.auditmypc.com/freesitemap-generator.asp