101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence

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I like making lists - and I like promoting Web sites. So it was an obvious thing to do to create a list of ways to improve and promote a Web site and online presence. Some are obvious, some are bizarre. Some are old, some are new. Many are well know techniques, some are my own personal rambling. Nothing is a statement of fact, merely my own opinion.
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)hcV*C-{ 1.If you're launching a new site, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public. lHpyLsE
2.Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
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wuNz'G]w 3.Create a MySpace account and use it to publisise your site. {J`D-i8g:ZE

D(Dn4}3o9bK 4.Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you're really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.

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s8y2e#aFF!nv 5.Create a Technorati account and "claim" your blog.NS8NH|2Z)a

4gU5s5bjs&F6}#` 6.Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here.xo)gBgh5z
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7.Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.cQo-T B"SXk/R
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8.Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.
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9.Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds.0kH$HV(\4J

P0Y|}9^ 10.Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner, Squidoo, Feedboy, Jordomedia, FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint
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k+C(w0h!E 11.Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
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8?$mM2L*TG2u| 12.Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
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13.Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.O6?v}3]5vk|R}

/lLQsz3JhAY 14.Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here for more info.
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S.Yk1nRnmvN#e 16.Tell your friends about your site. It's free advertising init.
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17.Speel cheek ur stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.!`6Bj0UBh

~;e0s)kS3?Sm 18.Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.s@B!Zq/E
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19.Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.cei@P{E

_p-fO(x/nmj.V] 20.Don't worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*+[!mv5t{&P!PP1? Q/GR$s

'urRGL"{,o 21.Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
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22.Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.6a8jH
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23.Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
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v3s]x&N6}]rg:LH,G 24.Advertise your site on Craigslist. It's free, relevant and localised.
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25.Do NOT use frames.!~J:|eCcF"O
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26.Submit your site to DMOZ.org. It may take time, but it's worth it.6K rp+f(G~Y,v

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Ch]R&RY2C.{ 28.Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.o mnc/^&ev1W*]+wL9]
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29.Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you're a publish, make some cash!|*`/f"t/wR}6^o
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30.On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.1VsP(Nuvy$}

6oH$}2U~'WP 31.Send out a newsletter!
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32.Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something."])LLo3Q*x.} t3|O
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33.Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
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#jM T^_.R5O{ 34.Don't pay people to submit your site to search engines. It's a waste of money.
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35.YouTube and Google Video are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.
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CD.S 36.Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.%do _c%}`y
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37.Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
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38.If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add "As Seen on TV" to your site!'pXw3vK }J[ `1Q

v6SIJv?9u3Dq 39.Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.
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n2I3ZOV 40.Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it's not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.
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'X#@D'Hv 41.Learn about CSS. It's the new HTML.
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42.Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia. (`1z|TzO/DVN
43.Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
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44.Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid [url]http://www.yourdomain.com/pgInfoPage...CFE3AEDAF8DD9D[/url]
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45.If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a "Skip Intro" link.
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46Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
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8A,IJDj 47.Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.
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,`m~2]F 48.Donate money to a charity and most will place a link on their site back to you.@!W%r-fm*_1Q

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Reply #1 chinaecartscom's post

good tipsH])\)I|2V`&BZ

#V5L-L"j]9Qz},b6R9a It seems that this article should be in E-Commerce.chyb4Q:|V

)wCx7g]e%PT z Thanks

more and more i feel a good subject is even more important than content! that's a good way  to Improve Your article  Presence

thanks for your share, but why not mark them by Number?

sorry, i am afraid i have to credit it :lol