Often when you are looking to promote a new site you just visit every free link source you know and submit url, title, descript and leave it at that. You are missing out on a prime source of quality links that will be spidered by major search engines as well as get human surfers to your site.

Lets take my site for example http://www.webmasterearnmoney.com There is no cost to you to sign up for a membership there and its not like you have to spend all your time there. With a free membership you get a profile with a link to your site as well as setting signatures that will display in all forum post.

So things to do that promote your site from my site, post in my forum. Often sites have a spam forum and a place to introduce yourself. Look at most recent post and see if you can contribute anything relevant and useful. These post will have links to your site from signature you set up earlier.

Submit any content that is relevant and use “resource” or “about me” section at bottom of each page to promote your site and urls. Content submitted like this are valuable to our sites and provide links back to you that are far superior to directory listings and resource page links.

Search engine uses spiders – (an automated software program) to locate and collect data from web pages for inclusion in a search engine's database and to follow links to find new pages on World Wide Web. While directories depends on human editors, who in most cases examine every single new listing before they are added to their directory. Most major search engines these days use links from human edited directory to measure quality of site they index. That is why you should place emphasis on type of website or directory you list to and how to do that effectively.

Below here are steps to be followed, before you will list in most human edited Internet directories that place emphasis on building an effective directory. DMOZ, Yahoo and other new human edited directories consider following before they consider your site for inclusion.

(1) Design or look of your website: Is your website properly designed? Most website owners do not take into consideration on how their website is designed. The look or design of your website is most important factor for success in web marketing – its effectiveness also applies to site visitors. Website designers offer to help you create an effective website that will boost your website marketing and also enhance your site visitors experience thereby increasing sales or repeated visits. Spending money in building an effective website for Internet marketing should be first step for Internet marketing success.