NO, don't bother! It's a waste of time, and you'll probably just receive lots of unwanted e-mail.

Instead, submit your site to major search engines and directories (i.e. Google, and a few others). Monitor your results, and resubmit only if your site isn't listed yet.

Repeat this process for any new content you create.

== Aside == Your site does contain good page content, decent page title and useful keyword and description meta tags, doesn't it? Read my 'Use Keywords And Meta Tags To Get The Click!' article if not! - http://www.howipromotemywebsite.com/keywords == Aside ==

You *can* use an auto-submission tool, or you can hand- submit to each site. The latter approach takes more time, but at least you know that your site *has* been submitted!

Either way, site-submission process doesn't take long, but it may well take a few months before your efforts are rewarded by search engine traffic.

=> SUBMIT YOUR SITE TO GOOGLE

Nowadays, your site must be listed on Google.

Google is now *the* dominant search engine on web. Not only do most people use it for search, but it also provides results for AOL and other major sites.

Submission to Google is easy - you need only submit your home page. Other pages, linked to from home page, will then get added to Google's database over time.

In fact, you don't actually have to submit your site to Google (Google prefers that you don't). It may well find your site anyway, especially if another site (already on Google) has links to your site.

== Aside == Want to know how to go about swapping links with other sites. Read my 'Reciprocal Link To Boost Your Website Traffic!' article if not! - http://www.howipromotemywebsite.com/link-swaps == Aside ==

It's worth reading what Google says about getting your site listed. (The 'add your site' links follow.)

Google Information for Webmasters - http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Add your site to Google - http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Add your site to Google UK - http://www.google.co.uk/addurl.html

=> ADD YOUR SITE HERE, TOO...

After submitting your site to Google, you should hand-submit your site to these other major search engines and directories, also (listed in alphabetical order):

AltaVista - (Search results are provided by Yahoo!)

AllTheWeb.com (Fast Search) - (Search results provided by Yahoo!)

AOL Search - (Search results provided by Google and DMOZ)

MSN (Inktomi Search Index that powers MSN search) - http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm

Open Directory Project (DMOZ) - http://dmoz.org/add.html

Scrub The Web - http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html

Yahoo! directory - http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/

Yahoo! search (new) - Yahoo! registration required. - http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

Note: regional (and maybe more appropriate) versions of above search engines exist too.

Large companies, off-line focus on "branding" themselves- becoming a well known . One of best examples would be amazon.com for books.

The biggest exposure for branding is TV because this is easiest and quickest way to got into millions of homes. But times are changing. Here's an example:

I happened to notice a TV ad from a large successful company. It featured a special offer and directed people to their web site. Not exact site but:

http://www.thesite.com v

The big companies are starting to wake up! The link above is tracking responses from advertising and it's something you can do with your business on-line and off.

Below I'll explain how you can track your advertising... Small warning here, it's slightly technical but not too hard. :)

What company has done is created a folder, just like ones on your computer with 1 web page in it actual web page name would be index.htm or index.html.

When you go to a folder, page that is automatically seen in index page. So... http://www.thesite.com v is actually:

http://www.thesite.com v/index.htm

The folder name being "tv"

This page will "redirect" to special offer or home page every time a visitor comes to page. When it redirects it also "counts" each visitor. They can also count sales and calculate exact profit and effectiveness of advertising quickly.

This is called "cloaking" a link and is not new. It simply means true address of page is not shown. The way you can use this in your business is that it can help those that think they have seen an offer before and also it can be used for affiliate programs.

You may get a much better response for advertising that has a link of: http://yoursite.com/free than an affiliate link like: http://www.thesite247.com/a/signup.cgi?id=123

The process is actually not that hard.

Ok lets create your special redirect page its called a 'Meta ­ Refresh" page. There are other ways to do it but this is easiest.

By way, you must have your own website for this to work.

Use Windows NotePad program or any plain text program. Follow below steps:

1. Copy following text: