They say that online readers today do not really read Articles the same way the would a letter or an email for that fact; they skim through the article looking for, get this, "keywords", that they are interested in. So, for this article, I will boldly bold the Keywords that I think my audience would be interested in. For my article today, I will show you how to get the exposure you need to gain real traffic by Registering, Verifying, and Advertising your newly created website or blog.
A. Google http://www.google.com/addurl/
B. Bing http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
C. Yahoo https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites
D. DMOZ http://www.dmoz.org/help/submit.html
E. Ask http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml
Instant Serendipity
The following websites can do this for you for a trade of your email address for their e-mail marketing list:
a. http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
b. http://bblmedia.com/addurl.html
c. http://www.submitexpress.com/
For those who would rather do it by themselves, manually, you would have to go to each Search Engine Websites and submit your domain name manually. The links for submission for each Major Search Engines are provided above.
You can also download a program for free to do this for you without having a website do it for you. A free Search Engine Submission program called "All-in-One Submission" is Free to download as a free-trial at:
http://www.sharewarist.com/share/download.htm
This program submits to over 20 websites aside from the major 5 Search Engines above for Free. If you buy and register the program you can submit to over 800 search engines!
2. Verify: Make Sure Google Finds Your Website
Once Google finds your website or web blog, you are almost always found by the other major search engines. If you have a website, go to Google Webmaster Tools and Analytics and download their scripts to your root WWW folder so that Google can verify and index that the website is yours. Next is to have Google create a Site Map of your Website. You will need to again download the script from Google and upload it to your root WWW folder for Google to create a site map for you and list it on their indexes. Once this is done, you will be listed and index by Google. Please make sure that you have your robot.txt file configure correctly.
Google Webmaster Tools: http://www.google.com/webmaster/tools
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics
robot.txt configuration: http://www.yoursite.com/robot.txt
3. Advertise: Create Articles, Banners, Links, RSS, Socialize
The best things are still for Free! If you're just getting started with having your very own website, you need to know where to get Free Advertising to start to Perpetuate Online Forever. Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Facebook all over free advertising coupons to get you started in getting that Targeted Traffic you want and need.
Google https://services.google.com/fb/forms/adwordscoupon
Bing http://www.searchenginesales.com/
Yahoo http://advertising.yahoo.com/smallbusiness/ysm
Facebook http://qapacity.com/promote/facebook/
To perpetuate your efforts even further, there are websites that sell these promo codes for cheap. Just type in the keywords you're looking for on Ebay and Google such as "Free Advertisement Coupons Online". Or you can buy them here:
Ebay = search for Search for Specific Search Engine Advertising Coupons
Facebook Coupons = http://www.adscoupons.com/
You will want to create articles for submission that has your calling card on it for back-links to Perpetuate Yourself Online, too. One of the best that I have found for Article Submission for Free are:
a. http://www.perpetualads.com/
b. http://www.ezinearticles.org/
c. http://www.articlebase.com/
You will need to create Banners, Links, and RSS scripts to trade with other websites. There are some great banner trader websites out there. Some of which are:
a. http://www.perpetualads.com/ (fee based but I can hook you up, email webmaster@perpetualads.com)
b. http://www.whambanners.com/
c. http://www.showyoursite.com/
The RSS feed can be download from your gadget or widget and plugged in to your articles so that automatic back-links are created to your new articles. Here are some website that you can get these RSS feeder scripts.
a. http://itde.vccs.edu/rss2js/build.php Cut and Paste Java Scripts.
b. http://simplythebest.net/scripts/feed/
The best advertising out there aside for Free Advertising is by word of mouth or Socializing. It's obvious that Facebook would be one of the largest country in the world if it was a country so it can no longer be ignored. Register in Facebook and start telling every about your website. Then there was Twitter. Twitter is another socialized website that you can take advantage of. Register for a Twitter Account, too. What about MySpace? Do that, too!
You can see that this takes real work and why some companies charge a lot of dough to perform SEO or Search Engine Optimizations for you. Yes, they do other things for you but I am sure you can find all their tricks out on the Internet. Just Google it, correctly. As you get more involved with getting your website registered and discovered on the net, you will refine these basic steps and add to them naturally. Register, Verify, and Advertise are still the 3 steps that you'll need to perform in order to get your website the traffic it needs to get noticed on the Internet.