Archive for October, 2007

Always Check The Map

Web Site Promotion for the Small BusinessOctober 26, 2007
Always Check The Map
A sitemap is an XML file that you place on your site/server, that allows search engines to more intelligently walk your site. A sitemap file (sitemap.xml) can be generate from one of several web sites.

http://sitemap.xmlecho.org/sitemap/
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
http://www.sitemapspal.com/

Using a sitemap.xml file enables [...]


Getting Something For Nothing

Web Site Promotion for the Small Business v2
October 25, 2007

Getting Something For Nothing

Sometimes, a business will entice you to make a purchase by giving you something for free. Usually, it's something that, in and of itself, is pretty useless. In the case of Site Submission, promotion sites usually give you free submission to [...]


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EXTRA! EXTRA!

Web Site Promotion for the Small Business v2
October 24, 2007

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Write a press release that
advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that anyone can do. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your
friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media to
drive massive traffic to your website. It's a [...]


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RSS Feeds and Blog Directories

Web Site Promotion for the Small Business
October 23, 2007

As a continuation of yesterday’s post, I am now going to explain how RSS feeds and Blog Directories can work for you.
RSS Feeds
An RSS feed is a standard way of making information available across the Internet. Most blog services make the blog posts available via RSS. [...]


Free Blog Providers

Web Site Promotion for the Small BusinessOctober 22, 2007
The post from October 18, 2007 talks about Reciprocal Links, which is all good but what if you can’t get anyone to link to you? In these cases, create your own reciprocal linking.
The are many FREE blog, forum, and web site providers out there and the [...]