30 Free Places To Promote Your Website Online

Creating a website isn’t just about designing and setting it up. Like a tree in the forest that falls when no one’s around – does a website without visitors actually exist?

If you want your site to be effective, active online promotion is a necessity. In case you have no experience with promoting your site, you’re probably reaching out for some Aspirin now. But promoting websites isn’t only a simple task, you can even do so much without spending a dime!

The links below provide many opportunities to promote your site for free. It will take just a little of your time, but it can seriously increase your site’s traffic.

Directories:

 

Directories are like phone books or Yellow Pages, except online. Submitting your site to online directories is highly recommended as it improves your site’s SEO (directories link back to your website). Make sure you also submit your site to regional, local and niche directories where your clients are most likely looking for you.

Scrub The Web

DMOZ

Entire Web

Exact Seek

Amfibi

Directorise

Hitalyzer

WhatUSeek

Link Centre

So Much

Social Bookmarking:

 

Bookmarking your content in popular Social Bookmarking sites is a great way of gaining quality backlinks as well as exposing your content to a broader audience.

Stumble Upon

Delicious

Clip Marks

Blink List

Tagza

Diigo

My Link Vault

Connotea

Links Marker

Faves

Search Engines:

 

Getting search engines to index your site quickly is a key part of gaining more traffic. Make sure these engines know that your site exists by submitting the link directly to them.

Google

Bing

Yahoo

Photo-Sharing Sites:

 

Photo-sharing sites give you an amazing opportunity to display visual content that is related to your business, which you can later use to refer and link back to your site. You can post images of events, coworkers, news and everything that is connected to your biz.

Flickr

Picasa

Photo-Bucket

Zooomr

Article-Submission Sites:

 

Just like with photo-sharing, article-submission is a terrific way to promote your site. All you need to do is write an article related to your work, organization or services, and submit it to these sites. It’s important to keep these articles actually informative. The less aggressive marketing in the article, the better the chances that readers will be interested in your site.

eZine Articles

Article Wheel

Article Geek


That's it this are some basic place where you should promote your Website or Blog. Every new post from your blog should be first added in this sites then only you will get the traffic you are seeking for.

For more help and question and query. Feel free to comment. I will come up with solution as soon as possible.

Thank you and good day :)  

 

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Creating Useful links from Your Site or Blog

Provide visitors with links to other sites similar to yours or a meta-index of links that would be of interest to your your target market. Do not put outbound links on your home page. Place them down a level or two after the visitors have seen all the information you want them to see before you provide the links away from your site. Links can be incorporated to Two ways:-

The First is where clicking the link loads the new page in the same browser window.(It replace the content of your page with the content of the linked page.)

The Second and preferred method is to have a link open a new browser window.(Your page stays where it is and the content from linked page opens up in the new browser window.)

The Second way in preferred because once visitors are finished with the new page, they can close the browser window and your page is still there in the "old" browser window. Try exchanging links with others so you can receive a links from their site to your site. As long as the link are value to your visitors, People will come back to see if you have found any new and interesting sites for them to visit.

Google Provides information on Employment opportunities.

 

 

 

You might consider asking visitors if they are interested in being notified when you update your lists of link or just make updates to your site in general. By offering this, if hey choose to do so, you have the opportunity to send people an e-mail message remind them about your site while presenting them with new information about what might be going on with your site.

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How to Prepare Your Website for Increased Visitor Numbers

Our Host karl is Going to share some views on Increasing Visitors number on your website. See How can you become a Guest Author On Blogging Section.

While some websites are caught unawares and unprepared by sudden surges in web traffic, the most successful are often aware of the trends that indicate their visitor numbers could be about to explode.

Whether it is due to an analytics program that shows constantly growing numbers of visitors, or an investment into an SEO campaign that will bring more visitors over the coming months, for example, there could be many reasons behind a site needing to be ready to handle a higher volume of traffic.

We looked at the steps you can take that will ensure that your business moves forward and your site continues to operate with no noticeable differences on any level.

Change Up Your Hosting

This is a definite must do if you are currently using a shared server or a VPS hosting solution. Even if you are using a dedicated server, you might want to increase the bandwidth or capabilities so that your site can continue to operate when the visitor numbers explode.
The easiest way to imagine this is to compare it to a shop that opens a second branch in town, and instead of having new staff, it just splits the existing team between both. It is never going to work, and expecting to grow your revenues and cope with increased numbers on a limited server is not going to, either.

Look at Your Social Sharing Options

The great thing about increased traffic is that it leads to more traffic, snowballing so that your website becomes hugely popular and your business potentially hits constant growth.
Therefore, this could be a great time to re-launch your social media offerings so that you can score highly in the user generated content stakes. Ensure that anyone coming to your site, whether they are browsing pages or buying product, can easily spread the word through their own social streams, as well as engaging with your business with your own.

Consider Outsourcing Content Creation

When you have more visitors, it becomes more important to keep your blog or news pages up to date so that people headed to your site have an impression of a relevant, “finger on the pulse” type of business.
More people most likely means an increase in your workload, however if you have been managing your site yourself you can simply outsource things such as blog and article writing to freelancers or a content creation company. Ideally, you will be able to give them access to your website’s content management system, so that they can upload the content and keep your site fresh independent of yourself.
While increased website visitors can serve to create a feeling of excitement, it is just another opportunity for you to take your brand to the next level. Ensure you position yourself to continue the growth of your business and make the most of all increases in web traffic.

Karl

About the Guest Author:
Karl is an online content writer across a number of industries, with a specific interest in the role managed VPS hosting and other host solutions can play in the growth of online businesses.

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Top 15 Killer Tips To Increase Page Rank!

Page Rank is a link analysis algorithm which is used by search engines to determine relative importance of your link within their database. Here I’ll tell you how to increase page rank.

How is Page Rank Calculated?

Page Rank is calculated by various algorithms made by search engines, in simple words, Page Rank is calculated upon the number of links on your site; these links Include:

1. Backlinks.
2. Inbound links.
3. Internal links.
4. External links.
5. No-Follow links.
6. Do-Follow links.

Google and other Page Ranking sites analyze these links and assign a numerical page rank from 1 to 10 to your website. Below we will discuss Top 15 Killer Tips To Increase Page Rank

How To Increase Page Rank?

1. High Quality Content:

In order to increase Page Rank you must have unique quality content which your readers want to share with their friends. You can read Tips For Writing Engaging Content.

2. Site Submitting:

To boost Page Rank you must have high quality Backlinks and the best way to generate quality backlinks is to submit your site on different web directories and article directories.

Some Good Web And Article Directories Are:

• DMOZ
• Yahoo Directory
• Best Of The Web
• Ezine Articles
• Article Base
• Go Articles

3. Guest Posting:

This is one of the most used and best technique to increase Page Rank. Most Blogs have options of guest posting through which you can post at their blog and get two or three backlinks in return to your blog this really helps if you are posting on good Page Rank Blog with the same Niche as yours.

4. Link Exchange:

This is one of the most old techniques but it still works, in order to get a good PageRank you should get higher Page Rank sites to link to your site, through this you will firstly get a good Page Rank and will get traffic from that site.

5. Keep Updating:

Google really likes Sites that keep their content fresh and unique. The more you post, the more Google will crawl your site and the more chances for you to increase page rank 

6. Commenting On Other Blogs:

Commenting is a very crucial process in generating a good Page Rank. In Blogging Community you must be very socially active. Some Blogs are Do-Follow, which can help you generate back links to your site by just commenting on their posts. Nowadays most blogs have CommentLuv Plugin installed on their site which automatically places a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment.

7. Social Bookmarking:

Social Bookmarking is a very effective method to increase Page Rank because by sharing your Site on different Social Sites you will get a free Backlink and Traffic. Some of the most popular Social Bookmarking Sites Are:

• Facebook
• Google Plus
• Squidoo
• Digg
• Hub Pages
• Stumble Upon

8. Website Accessibility:

If Your Website is down for a long period of time, Google may reduce the ranking of your site. So You should always keep Your Website accessible.

9. Using Commonly Searched Keywords:

As You know people search using keywords and not the whole sentence so if you have used a keyword which is very frequently searched then you get a higher chance of your website being visited and MORE VISITORS = BETTER PAGE RANK.

10. Website Advertising:

You can make an Ad or a banner for your site and advertise it on different website, through this you will get good back links and traffic.

11. Create Multiple Pages:

If You create multiple Pages on Your Site this will strengthen your internal linking and will ultimately increase Page Rank.

12. Participate In Forums:

Google loves forums that are most frequently updated and by getting a back link from these forums you will succeed on increasing Page Rank.

13. Using Signatures:

You can add a link to your website in your online signatures. For example, you can add signatures in your email and forum posts but don’t try to spam because you can be blocked.

14. When Does Google Re-Evaluate Page Rank?

Google Re-Evaluates Page Rank about Three to Four times per year, so almost every Three months Google calculates Your Page Rank again.

15. Never Use Illegal Tactics:

Using illegal tactics can get you banned from Google and Google is very smart so never think that you can deceive Google because if they find out that you are using illegal techniques which are against their policy they will block you. Stay away from those tactics using these legitimate techniques will improve traffic.

Over to You!

Which methods do you use to increase page rank ? Do share them with us. 

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8 Perfect Gift Ideas For A Blogger

31 Days to a Better Blog by Darren Rowse –Darren just released a new version of this amazing e-book for 2012.  I bought this e-book early in my blogging career and it was the BEST investment I could have made in my blogs.  I attribute most of my blogging success to this little e-book which is FULL of tips and ideas from the problogger himself.  This man built a blog from scratch to earning a six figure income each year.  He’s definitely doing something right and shares a lot of his expertise in this e-book.

Web Hosting – Having your blog on your own hosting gives you more control and more peace of mind about your content.  Your content is safer and is less likely to disappear or become inaccessible.  Sometimes the price of web hosting scares bloggers from making the important switch from Blogger to WordPress – a crucial step if you’re wanting to make more income from your blog in the long run.  It’s so important to choose the right host – I’ve personally worked with several web hosts in my blogging career and have my thoughts and recommendations on each here: How to Choose a Web Host

Market Samurai – One of the hardest parts of blogging is SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  That’s the art of getting your blog to rank higher in the search engines so that more people will find it.  More people seeing your blog links in the search engines like Google and Yahoo means more traffic for a blog – and thus potentially more income.  Market Samurai is a great tool that does the reserach for you to help you make the little changes necessary to improve your blog’s SEO and get your blog seen by more people.

Night at a coffee shop to work for a couple hours – As a work-at-home mom to two little ones, some of the best “gifts” my husband has given me during my years of blogging have been some nice quiet evenings to myself to JUST focus on blogging.  It’s amazing how much you can get done in a couple of quiet hours to yourself, with a cup of coffee.  I always come home refreshed and more ready to keep up with my blogging tasks in the weeks to come.

Custom Blog Design Makeover - There are blog designers out there to fit everyone’s budget.  Of course, you do get what you pay for… and you might be thinking that you do not have that kind of money to be investing in your blog.  Can I offer a word of advice here?  One based on personal experience?  That investment may be worth more than you can know right now!  Having a blog design that I loved, right from the beginning, would have saved me countless hours of tweaking my own designs – and it would have probably saved me money, too!  Remember that time is valuable, too – give the gift of time and beauty to that blogger on your list with a custom blog design.  Here is a blog designer who’s definitely worth looking into: Berries and Cream Blog Design

Some personal training/mentoring – Whether you’re just getting started with blogging, or you’ve been doing it for a while now, getting the personal input of someone further along in the journey can be just what you need to breathe new life into your blog!  Looking for ideas for how your blog can make more money?  Gain more followers?  Get more notice?  Consider having someone there to walk you through how to change your blog, with hands on advice just for you with a blog mentor.

Write a Tribute to Your Blogger and ask to have it published on one of their favorite blogs – Tell the story of your blogger’s blog – what they write about, how much they love it, what they’ve learned.  Tell about what it’s like living with a blogger.  Then, email the post to one of your blogger’s favorite blog owners and ask if they might consider publishing it.  What a sweet way to pay a tribute to all the work your blogger has put into their blog!  Plus, you’ll gain them some traffic AND the notice of one of their “idols”!

A Premium Theme: I recommend Thesis – If you can’t afford to hire a blog designer as suggested above, purchasing a premium WordPress theme is your next best option.  Premium themes give you so many more options in working with the design of your blog than the generic, free WordPress themes available.  With a premium theme and little bit of time to research how to make your blog look the way you want it to (there are hundreds of resources out there, just a Google search away!), your blog can take on the look and functionality that you’ve always wanted it to.  Here at Blogelina, I use and love the Thesis Theme.  If you’re looking for something that requires a bit less coding, I would also recommend the Genesis themes andElegant Themes.

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40 Facebook Tips – Make Your Blog More Interactive

Facebook is the Internet’s biggest social network. Are you participating yet?

Some Facebook Tips To Boost Your Reader Interaction

1. Have you checked your Facebook settings lately? You might be surprised at the personal information you’re sharing.
2. Did you know that you can use Facebook as a Page and not just your personal profile?Use it to post to Facebook and “Like” other Pages.
3. Have you customized your Facebook page?Add tabs to grow your mailing list, showcase your content and more.
4. Get and keep more Likes on your Facebook page by offering special discounts and freebies that are only offered to fans of your page.
5. Do you have a Facebook commenting policy? It’s a must for Pages with a large following.
6. According to Crowdspring, 51% of Facebook users are more likely to buy from companies they are following.
7. Facebook now has over 800 million users. 200 million of those were added in 2011 alone.
8. More than half of Facebook’s active users log in every day, totalling 400 million daily visits.
9. Get more Facebook followers by offering a video, report or other content that can only be viewed by those who Like your page.
10. Tagging is a great strategy to strike up a conversation on Facebook. You can tag updates, photos and more.
11. Get more of your email subscribers to Like you on Facebook. Set up an interesting poll and invite your subscribers to respond.
12. Most brands don’t do Facebook right.According to study by Socialbakers, brands answer only 5% of Facebook Wall posts.
13. Have you checked your Facebook Insightslately? Check them to find out your reach, engaged users and virality.
14. Most people have Facebook Like buttons on their blog posts, but did you know you can put a Like button on ANY web page?
15. Facebook Like buttons can add a social boost to your website and give you more exposure, so use them readily.
16. Make your content easy to share on Facebook by including a Facebook Share button in your blog posts.
17. Have you considered using a Facebook commenting system on your blog? With so many people using Facebook, it’s a seamless integration for many websites.
18. EdgeRank helps Facebook decide which content to show to users in their “Top News.” It’s a mathematical calculation based on how connected you are to the particular user, how popular the content is and how recent it is.
19. Facebook EdgeRank Tip #1: Encourage interaction when you make posts. Ask questions, create polls and get them talking.
20. Facebook EdgeRank Tip #2: Readily share content from a variety of sources. When users click the link, it contributes to your EdgeRank.
21. Facebook EdgeRank Tip #3: Post regularly because the freshness of your content is a factor in EdgeRank.
22. Fun Facebook Fact: Did you know that creator Mark Zuckerberg has red-green color blindness and that is why the site is mainly blue?
23. Starting a Facebook Ads campaign is easy.Just look at the ads on the right side of the page and click “Create an Ad”.
24. Test different headlines and images on your Facebook ads, but not at the same time.
25. Keyword targeting your Facebook ads is likely to increase your conversion rate, but you may not get as many impressions.
26. Personalize Facebook ads for better results.If people can see how their offer is of interest to others they follow, then they’re more likely to take action – see more tips in Facebook Ads 101.
27. Facebook Groups are a great way to connect with new people and to encourage open interaction. Have you joined or started one lately? (Consider joining a Blogelina Blogging Buddy Group – start getting the blogging support you deserve!)
28. Got tagged in a less than professional photo on Facebook? Open the photo page and click “Report / Remove Tag”. You can remove it without reporting it.
29. Have you added new “Likes” to your Facebook Page? Show yourself as someone connected with your niche by liking relevant pages.
30. Have you used Facebook’s list feature? It’s a great way to broadcast your content only to the people you want to share it with.
31. Have you tried Sponsored Stories? It’s a way to get certain posts more visibility on Facebook.
32. Facebook Timeline is a new type of profilethat allows you to showcase the photos and things that represent you best.
33. Facebook Events is a great way to create online or in-person meetings.
34. Did you know you can unsubscribe from Facebook updates on a person-to-person basis?
35. Find out what you have in common with your friends with the “See Relationship” feature. You can see how long you’ve been connected on Facebook, Likes you have in common, friends in common and more.
36. Is an ad on Facebook really bothering you?Hover over it and click the X to hide it.
37. Don’t want to bombarded by the chat feature on Facebook? You can make yourself unavailable for chat by changing your settings.
38. Don’t use the Poke feature if you want to make a connection on Facebook. Start a dialogue instead.
39. Set a daily budget for your Facebook ads, to make sure that you don’t get any surprises.
40. Remember to create your Facebook username URL for your personal profile and your Facebook Page, too.

How Are You Benefiting From Facebook In Your Blogging?

Share in the comments below!

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Benefits of online SEO tools

When I was a kid, and there was a term I didn’t understand,I would run up to mom and ask her what it was. My mother, 
for  me,  was  the  universal  thought  database,  and  could  never  be  wrong. Today,  however, when our  kids have any
doubts  they  prefer to ‘Google’  them,  which  only goes to show you  how  far reaching  the  effects  of Search Engine
Optimization are.

SEO has permeated the business aspect of almost every field of commercial relevance today. In fact, we seem to be so steeped in the art of SEO, that to do without it is unthinkable.

Search Engine Optimization consists of two steps:

1 Website Analysis

AND

2 The Optimization Process

It cannot be debated that search engine optimization is a long standing boon to businesses in general.
The practice has managed to become a ‘given’ in the workplace. And with the advent of user-friendly
technology, the most popular online marketing measure in existence.

Below are some of the current SEO tools that are making their mark on the Internet business front:-

* Google Webmaster Tools – keeps the user aware of popular keywords and indexes.

* Google Analytics – helps in website traffic and income analysis.

* Google Adwords Keyword Tool – informs the user about global search volume and related
   keywords for the search term.

* SEOmoz.com’s Ranking Checker – checks keyword rankings.

* Firefox's Web Developer Extension – Competition overview and SERP export tool.

* MultiRank Checker by iWebtool.com - runs bulk keyword ranking checks.

* Fiddlertool.com‘s Fiddler Web Debugging Proxy – records and analyses browser-server
   communication.

* WeBuildPages.com‘s Strongest Subpages Tool – conducts strongest web page content analysis.

* SEO Analyzer by sitening.com - helps in SEO site analysis.

Let us take a look at some of the benefits these SEO tools provide:-

* Improves your SEO Rankings
By linking yourself to popular search engine sites, you purchase their years of search expertise.
Their search efforts help your business secure a higher page ranking in overall SEO.

* Promotes Brand Awareness
SEO tools help promote your business, product or service, and create a brand image that the
average consumer can recognize. This is especially useful for new businesses or established
businesses with a lag in profits.

* More for Less
SEO as a mode of online marketing is by far the least expensive, but with the farthest reaching
effects. Moreover your extent of SEO efforts depends solely on your business plan and budget.

* Traffic Generator
SEO tools are invaluable in generating sales traffic to your company website, or bringing
attention to specific product offers or service initiatives.

* High Revenue
As your investment in search engine tie-ups is low, and these efforts in themselves bring in more
sales traffic, you end up earning a higher rate of revenue in the long run.

The use of SEO tools for analysis and marketing decisions could prove vital in today’s business world where the competition is not just ‘face to face’, but ‘link to link’.

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Increase Your Blog Readership To Increase Traffic

Your blog is not only a blog to deliver content to the visitors. It's your voice who speaks in behalf of you. You need to write for readers not for the visitors. If visitors land on your blog and they don't understand what you are trying to say then surely they will not convert into your readers. Generating traffic is not enough if you are not able to build strong readership for your blog. Good readership can help you to achieve your goals of blogging. Don't work to build only traffic, works for maintaining and building best reading experience for your visitors so that they love to read what you write for them. Today, I am going to share my own way to build a consistent readership to convert your blog into a diary for internet world.

Tips to Build Readership

Below are some best tips that works to enhance blog readership and to improve relations with visitors to convert them into regular readers. Readers are the returning visitors that are same important as new visitors to maintain your blog traffic. Let's learn how to achieve it.

Be Consistent, Not Regular

You may already know that posting regularly is the best practice to enhance your blog traffic and ranking in search engines. But this is not enough to build a powerful blog readership. You need to be consistent to make your blog a community of bloggers. Stick with a particular time and deliver content regularly on the same time. Your visitors should know when they will get new and fresh content so that they can land on your blog and read new written content. If you are not able to stick with a particular time, then you can use Schedule Post feature in blogger which is the perfect tool to schedule your posts for auto posting.

Call To Action

Writing for readers is the first step but what if they feel that you are not interacting with them. Convert your writing into a conversion like you are directly talking with them. Add a strong reason to call a action into your posts. Below every post you need to convey your visitors to leave a comment so that you can reply them. If they feel that there is someone who is interacting with them then why they will not come back.

Write For Readers, Not For Visitors

You try to write best quality articles for your blog. But this is not enough. There are thousands of blogs into same niche which you have and their blog owners are also generating high quality articles. The thing which you need to convert your blog visitor into reader is that write by following a plan. By plan, I mean to say that whenever you write new post try to give hint to your readers about your future post so that they can come back to read it. It will not only improve your blog traffic but also your one time visitor will convert into your long time reader.

Its Your Time!!!

This was all about on how to build strong blog readership. I have shared my own way with you guys. Now this is your turn to work for your blog. Always remember that not only work for traffic but also work for maintaining readership to give your readers a memorable reading experience.

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