Building traffic with Click ExchangesWritten by Benjamin Choi
Click Exchanges are one of many ways to promote your site. The concept is simple: visit other members' sites, and you, in turn, receive visits by other members to your site.Many people ask: Are they worth time you spend surfing? Well, my answer is yes and no. They are worth it if you make many referrals and manage to get plenty of visitors without too much surfing yourself. They are worth it if you sign up to not just one, but many of them and switch between them while waiting for usual 30-second delay to be up. However, they are not worth it if you sign up to only one of them, do not refer anyone, and if your ISP charges 2 cents a minute. In that case, you will be paying 2 cents for each visit to your site! My preferred technique is to sign up to many of them. Click 'Next site' button/link on first one, then switch to browser window with second one and click 'Next site'. Then, switch to third, fourth and then fifth. By time you return to first site, 30-second delay will have lapsed. You will be able to progress to next site. That way, you will be able to surf 10 sites in 1 minute, getting you 5 hits for 2 cents rather than just 1. (5 times value!!!)
| | Promote your website for FREEWritten by Pushkar Pathak
Working as a Webmaster for a research organisation is a different experience. Neither we have to sell any product nor provide any service to visitors. Most of these websites gives information that includes articles, analysis, data, graphs etc. But we want that information on our website should reach to each and every person of interest. Promoting a organisational (.org) site is different from others because being a org site we cannot put banners or popups of other sites and usually these organisations do not spend much on promotion of website. In initial stage we had some difficulties but now South Asia Terrorism Portal (www.satp.org) is one of very well known website on terrorism. While promoting a website you must also use following effective and free options of site promotion. Search engines: Search engines are most effective way to promote your site. From survey it has been found that about 80 per cent of people use search engine to find site of their purpose. Therefore, why should not utilize these visitors. You should submit your site to as many search engines, as you can. Following are urls to submit your site to some of most used search engines: Google: www.google.com/addurl.html Hotbot: hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp Altavista: http://addurl.altavista.com/sites/addurl/newurl Northernlight: www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html Whatuseek: www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml AlltheWeb: www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php Ask Jeeves: static.wc.ask.com/docs/addjeeves/Submit.html Bravenet: http://www.bravenet.com/searchsubmit/index.php Submit all new pages you add to your site. But before submitting your site to any search engine meta tag it properly. Meta tag plays a major role in ranking a site in search engine. To know in detail about meta tags please see following pages: http://www.geocities.com/manoian/meta_tag_tutorial.html http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/head/meta.html http://www.addme.com/issue97.htm http://www.addme.com/issue96.htm Web Directory: Submit your website to web directories. The site should be submitted to appropriate category. It also helps in improving ranking in Search engines. One of most useful web directory is Open director Project (dmoz.org). If your site has been accepted into Open Directory, then it will also get place on its partner sites which use Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, DirectHit, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc.
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