Quick & Free Tips for Promoting on the Internet

Written by Alice Seba


There are many ways to promote your web site. Some are expensive and some are time consuming. Here are a few ideas on ways to promote your site that are both quick and free. Watch for future articles that will include further effective promotion ideas.

Always Put Your Web Site in Your email Signature: Create a professional email signature that includes your URL and either your motto, a quote or a tiny tidbit of information about your business. Make sure to make it interesting; you want them to click on your link. Include it in all your email messages; you'd be surprised who might click on your link and be interested in what you have to offer. Also, include your URL on your business cards, stationery and any other printed information you have.

Link & Banner Exchanges: A link or banner exchange is a great way to increaserepparttar links to your page (a sure way to climbrepparttar 125003 search engines’ rankings). However, because you are exchanging a banner, you may lose some of your visitors to other sites.

TIP: Haverepparttar 125004 link open a new window separate from your site. That way if your visitor gets sidetracked, she won’t lose you.

Nevertheless, it is a free and viable option for increasing your traffic and your ranking. But...

Whom Do You Exchange With?:

1. Other Home Based Business People: Findrepparttar 125005 web sites of other home Based Business people and ask them to exchange a banner with you.

Choose someone who ranks high on a search engine. Perhaps, they will scoff atrepparttar 125006 idea of exchanging a banner with your site which ranks 9999 out of 10000, but it sure doesn’t hurt to ask. Besides, you won’t be 9999 for long!

2. For Party Plans Limited to a Particular Country: Exchange a link or banner with a fellow consultant from another country if you are limited to sales in your own country. This is a link that you could easily place front and centre on your home page. You can putrepparttar 125007 corresponding country's flag as a link and say "Canadian Visitors Enter Here" (for example). It will be clear if people should followrepparttar 125008 link torepparttar 125009 other page. If people click on this link, you aren't losing customers. They are obviously from another country and cannot order from you. Providing such a link is useful information to your visitor and she will be directed torepparttar 125010 appropriate country's site.

3. WAHM Web Pages: many Work at Home Mom themed web pages offer free banner exchanges. Take advantage of these, but place it on your “Links” page. It should not be front and centre because:

· You may lose your visitor

· You will not be front and centre on their web page

Check out these free banner exchanges:

Of course: InternetBasedMoms.com http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/banner_exchange.htm (your banner will always be shown onrepparttar 125011 Links page)

WAHM Exchange.com http://wahmexchange.com/ (your banner will receive one exposure for every two exposures ofrepparttar 125012 WAHM Exchange on your site)

Moms Network.com http://www.momsnetwork.com/busdirc-d/bannerexchange.shtml(your banner will receive one exposure for every two exposures ofrepparttar 125013 WAHM Exchange on your site)

The Mom Pack http://mompack.com/ringsetc.shtml (see this site to find other free banner exchange resources)

WAHM Tips http://www.wahmtips.com/rotation.htm (free link exchange)

Moola Mom http://moolamom.com/bnnrlinks.htm

4. Sites that Compliment Your Web Page Content - Exchange links with sites that compliments yours. For example, if you sell children's products - exchange with a parenting site. If you sell kitchen supplies - exchange with a recipe site. You may have to approach these sites and ask them if they are interested in a link exchange.

Choosing Meta Tags - Choosing good keywords for your site is a time consuming, but an imperative and worthwhile venture (see article in Building a Web Site). If you don't know what meta tags are, don't fret, we will learn about them in detail soon.

One quick thing you can do with your meta tags is make sure thatrepparttar 125014 titles of your pages are descriptive and contain keywords for your site. You can seerepparttar 125015 title onrepparttar 125016 very top of your browser of a page you are viewing. It's alsorepparttar 125017 name that comes up when you try to add a page to your favorites. Web crawling (see below) search engines search sites, in great part, based on these titles.

For example, if you sell children's clothes online, you want to make sure thatrepparttar 125018 title clearly illustrates what your site offers. A title like "Mandy's Stitches" may be your brand, but it is not very descriptive to what you are selling. A title like "Quality Children's Clothes at Inexpensive Prices" will serve you much better.

Sheryl Chapman recollects from the front row

Written by Max A. Herman


Sheryl Chapman recollects fromrepparttar front row

By Max A. Herman

"A lot of people go to concerts and they just come away with a ticket stub and here Ive got a couple rolls of film which have frozen that moment in time," said photographer Sheryl Chapman on her days of capturing shots of rocks most flamboyant stars. As a regular concertgoer inrepparttar 125002 80s, Chapman froze moments on stage of Metallica, Led Zeplin and many others as she shot away fromrepparttar 125003 frenzy ofrepparttar 125004 front row. It was at Alpine Valley, however, at an Aerosmith show, where Chapmans mission became most challenging. "I had to sneak," said Chapman. "You couldnt use a flash or anything. It was funny - this bouncer guy saw me shooting andrepparttar 125005 flash was going off. I didnt know I had a flash on and he came up to me and is like, Give merepparttar 125006 film! I had an extra roll of film in my sock, sorepparttar 125007 lights went out and I bent down and gave himrepparttar 125008 empty roll of film. And atrepparttar 125009 end ofrepparttar 125010 concert I hadrepparttar 125011 audacity to go up to him and ask forrepparttar 125012 roll of film back. I said, Its empty, can I have it back? Hes like, Get out!" When things werent quite as taxing, Chapman easily glided into shows and documentedrepparttar 125013 likes of her favorite acts, sometimes reaping unexpected benefits. After she shot a couple rolls of Robert Plant at a Led Zeplin show, Plant proceeded to take Chapmans hand and sing "Custard Pie" torepparttar 125014 audacious photographer. Unlike other female admirers of these musicians, though, Chapman came forrepparttar 125015 action onstage, not backtage.

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