by:
Amin Lalani
There
was an era when people were talking about how to create a
website using html coding or some easy tools to create attractive
website in seconds. Today we are a level up, and we seek how
to promote our website so that, the actual purpose of selling
products or services could be attained by bringing more target
visitors to the website.
There
are basically two ways of doing web promotion i.e. paid and
un-paid. Paid marketing brings quick results to the website
whereas unpaid marketing brings slow response to the website
but it is effective too. Now lets see how it works.
Before
going into web promotion, first of all the website should
be polished or SEO (Search engine optimization optimizing
website for search engine robot to crawl or read the website
easily) so that, the major search engine robots can visit
the website and update our web content.
Now
let us see how this is done.
Step
1: Ensure each of the pages has Title, Keywords and Description.
Here is the code that can be copy paste to the header of the
web-pages.
+title-
Broadband +title-
+meta
content="broadband, free broadband tv, disadvantages
of broadband
+network, home satellite broadband, rural broadband
+internet"name="keywords"-
+meta
content="Broadband is in high demand and it offer multiple
+features like internet, accessing computer remotely, TV,
Games, Movies,
+Online Seminars, Etc" name="description"-
replace
+ with < and with >
The
coding above is a sample extracted from a small broadband
website. The letters which is highlighted bold is the text
that a site owner is required to input, the other texts are
the coding that has to be placed as it is in header of a page.
Step
2: Once the title, keywords and description is done, the
next step is to create a sitemap. Sitemap enables spider (spider
: a robot from google, yahoo, altavista and other search engines
that reads and store the content of the website in the search
engine database) to read each and every page, see the example
at: http://www.evision.com.pk/sitemap.html
These
are some very basic steps, although there are many other steps
like writing quality content, adding information and article
to the website, etc which would bring good traffic to the
website.
Step
3: Now after going through the above 2 steps the website
is ready to get submitted to major search engines. Here are
few links to submit the website for free in google, yahoo,
dmoz and altavista
Once
the site completes the above steps now there is a question
that how to bring more traffic to the website. So as mentioned
earlier, the 2 methods i.e. fast and paid method and slow
but free method.
In
fast promotional / paid method, keywords that people usually
searched, for example to reach 1800flowers.com people would
search for send flowers, send valentine flowers, etc in search
engine, are listed and best of the listed are added to the
yahoo, google and to other search engine accounts, these keywords
are then placed on top when anyone search for it in the search
engine. Each keyword starts at 10 cents per click and goes
upwards. There are many other sites besides search engine,
which offer paid advertisement solutions and they are good
too for promoting the website. These are called paid advertisement.
Slow
or free marketing is where a site can be promoted by maintaining
the site as per marketing standards, for example site must
have title, keywords and description; it must have relevant
content originally written and not copied, it must have sitemap,
it should also have article and news section that should be
updated on regular basis, site should be submitted to various
directories and search engines, and other relevant activities
needs to be performed so that the site gets listed in search
engine and acquire top position in search results.
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