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30 Day Action Plan - Day 19 to 22 : Going Live And Announcing It With A Bang! (Step-By-Step Guide To Building A Profitable Niche Marketing Business - Part 8 of 27)By now, you should be ready to go live, that is, to publish your website for the World Wide Web to witness. Publishing your website can be complicated, depending on which method you choose. This is the reason why I earlier recommended a web hosting service that has a web-based easy upload feature, as such will make your life easier. Nonetheless, you can always contact your web hosting service’s technical support department in case you run into trouble. The important thing at this point is to establish as many backlinks to your website as possible. Google says that you don’t have to submit your website for their indexing; they will find your website themselves. This can only mean that their search engine spiders will try to look for your website by hopping from one link to the next. But with billions of pages on the World Wide Web, the process can take weeks, if not months, before your website can get indexed in their web pages. There should be a way to expedite the process, right? The best way to do this is by, as we have said earlier, establishing as many backlinks as possible. The more websites linking to your pages, the higher your chances are of getting indexed by Google at the soonest possible time. Notice that we have reserved 4 days for this step. This is because the methods we will discuss here will help you cement a lot of useful backlinks that will ensure the highest chances of Google picking up your website and indexing it in its database. Though some of the techniques we will study here are quite comprehensive, it is suggested that you try your best to achieve all of them. This will give your website a magnificent chance of getting indexed within a couple of days, and better yet, scoring a higher-than-average page rank and winning a good number of visitors in the process. Not bad for a startup website, eh?
Press Release To invite instant visitors as soon as your website is launched, it is advisable to submit a press release to as many newswires as possible. A press release is a newsworthy piece about a particular subject, which in our case is your website. With a press release, you should focus on answering the five basic questions: what, where, when, why, and who. Remember, a press release is not a sales page. It is not an advertisement tool (at least, not a blatant one.) The trick is in writing a news piece about the launch of your website. Here are some guide questions that will help you come up with a press release:
You can submit it to the net’s number one newswire, www.prweb.com. It is the newswire site that is frequently visited by a lot of webmasters looking for newsworthy content. It is even frequented by offline publishers looking for news to distribute through their print publications, and if your press release is chosen, you’ll be opening your website to an entirely new audience. Additionally, here are more newswire sites you can try out: http://www.pressflash.com The more newswire sites you use, the more traffic you can generate for your website.
There are a lot of article directories on the Internet. These article directories will allow you to submit your unique and highly informative articles, which they will publish on their website. Together with your article submissions, you will be allowed a resource box. A resource box is a space where you can introduce yourself as well as your website, and provide any link you wish to include. This is essential for your promotional campaigns, since it will mean that every article will have a backlink to your main website. Now here’s the clincher. Most of these article directories have a high page rank. If a website with a high page rank links to yours, you’ll receive a tremendous boost to your own page rank! Furthermore, there are thousands of article directories out there. Imagine if you’d submit just one article to 500 article directories. You’d have 500 backlinks! Ezine editors and other webmasters also search these article directories for content they can add to their own newsletters or websites. If your article is good enough, it’ll get picked up and your link will be displayed with it. This will mean more backlinks for you! If you want a comprehensive listing of the best article directories on the World Wide Web, get a copy of Web Traffic Explained today. For now, here are the article directories you MUST use: These four article directories are the most visited. Hence, your article stands the best chance of getting picked up by editors and webmasters if you submit to these article banks.
Google may say that you don’t need to submit your website to their services as they will find your pages themselves, but this doesn’t mean that other search engines share the same philosophy. MSN allows webmasters to submit their websites for faster indexing. Simply go to http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx and type in the URL of your website. Yahoo allows the same option. You can simply point your browser to http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request and you’re all good to go. There are more search engines, of course. A lot of paid services offer to submit your URL to as many as a thousand of these search engines. If you don’t want to pay, there are also some free services that will submit your website to a selected number of search engines. I would recommend www.ineedhits.com . They offer a free service that will submit your URL to 20 search engines. Visit their free services area at http://www.ineedhits.com/free-tools/submit-free.aspx?source=stcnt. Submitting your website to search engines doesn’t mean automatic indexing, however. It just means that your website will be in their queue. This queue may last for weeks, if not months, but if you’re lucky, you might get indexed in a matter of days. It’s worth the try, but the surest path to getting indexed is still in building your backlinks.
30 Day Action Plan - Day 23 to 27 : Blog And Ping, Blog And Ping
It has something to do with web logs, or blogs. Blogs were originally meant as online journals, or diaries if you will, to serve a variety of social purposes. But Internet marketers have found advertising uses for blogs, and today, they are considered as efficient weapons in getting good search engine position. This strategy also has something to do with RSS. RSS is a technology that allows you to send news feeds to certain recipients. The good thing about RSS is that it solves the problem of having to update your content regularly. Coupled with blogs, we have a powerful combo that will position you well in the search engine game. Do the following, step-by-step:
8. Click on “Add RSS by URL.” 9. Type in the URL of your blog, and add the extension “/atom.xml” just like the example below…
10. Click on “Add.” 11. Go to www.pingomatic.com 12. Type in the answers for the appropriate fields. Please be guided by the example below… 13. Click on “Submit Ping.” This would inform the blog directories that your blog has a new entry. And more importantly, this would inform the search engine spiders that your blog has updated its content and that they should crawl through its pages soon. 14. Make sure that your blog contains direct links to your main website. Do this for every entry. Also, add a permanent link on your blog’s navigation menu.
Now, for the coming days, always publish an entry. Every time you do this, use the tool at www.pingomatic.com . This will ensure that your blog will always be on top of the search engine spiders’ list. It has better chances of getting indexed first, compared to your main website. But once it gets indexed, it will carry your main website with it.
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