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 [...]


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 [...]


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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 [...]


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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 [...]


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 [...]