If you have a website, then promoting your website is actually extremely critical, actually if you don’t know what you are doing very well then you can cause damage to your site. Just because you want to spread the word about your masterpiece of a website, that does not mean that you should immediately start doing everything under the sun to get your website promoted. Learn about 5 of the biggest mistakes which people make when promoting their site…
Spam Free Zone - If you just start sending out unsolicited emails to people, this is not acceptable not for any reason, and you can actually be reported and “sand-boxed” for this. It will make your site untrustworthy and also result in large ISPs blocking your site.. Everyone hates spam just as much as you and it’s doing nothing but destroying your reputation.
Guaranteed Services - There are lots of people who will quite happily spend $20 to list their site on 100’s of search engines. The problem is however that there aren’t 100 good search engines out there in the first place, using one of these automated systems can also cause your site a lot of harm. Search engines can easily identify users who have used submission services. If you really don’t have time then there are some legitimate submission companies out there, just shop around and make sure you get them to tell you what they have done.
Search engine submissions- a lot of people may tend to waste their time on low key search engines, but you want to submit your website to major search engines, and directories. There are only around 30 important search engines, you can also consider searching for specialist directories and search engines which are related to your site. If your site is about travel, then seek out directories related to travel then.
Submitting to Yahoo - It’s very important to submit your site to Yahoo however this will be one of the hardest, because submissions are viewed by real human beings (editors), which means you must follow their instructions to the T. You should take your time with your application to ensure that your site gets added as quickly as possible
Open for business - There’s no point submitting your website to search engines if it’s not yet open. Before submitting you need to ensure that every part of your site works as it should and that there are no spelling mistakes. Few internet users will bother revisiting a website which has an under construction message anywhere on it.