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Working as a Webmaster for a research organisation is a
different experience. Neither we have to sell any product nor
provide any service to the visitors. Most of these websites
gives information that includes articles, analysis, data, graphs
etc. But we want that the information on our website should
reach to each and every person of the interest. Promoting a
organisational (.org) site is different from others because
being a org site we cannot put banners or popups of other sites
and usually these organisations do not spend much on the
promotion of website. In the initial stage we had some
difficulties but now South Asia Terrorism Portal (www.satp.org)
is one of the very well known website on terrorism. While
promoting a website you must also use the following effective
and free options of site promotion.
Search engines: Search engines are the most effective way to
promote your site. From survey it has been found that about 80
per cent of people use search engine to find site of their
purpose. Therefore, why should not utilize these visitors. You
should submit your site to as many search engines, as you can.
Following are the urls to submit your site to some of the most
used search engines:
Google: www.google.com/addurl.html Hotbot:
hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp Altavista:
http://addurl.altavista.com/sites/addurl/newurl Northernlight:
www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html Whatuseek:
www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml AlltheWeb:
www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php Ask Jeeves:
static.wc.ask.com/docs/addjeeves/Submit.html Bravenet:
http://www.bravenet.com/searchsubmit/index.php
Submit all the new pages you add to your site. But before
submitting your site to any search engine meta tag it properly.
Meta tag plays a major role in ranking a site in search engine.
To know in detail about meta tags please see following pages:
http://www.geocities.com/manoian/meta_tag_tutorial.html
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/head/meta.html
http://www.addme.com/issue97.htm http://www.addme.com/issue96.htm
Web Directory: Submit your website to web directories. The site
should be submitted to appropriate category. It also helps in
improving ranking in Search engines. One of the most useful web
directory is Open director Project (dmoz.org). If your site has
been accepted into the Open Directory, then it will also get
place on its partner sites which use the Open Directory data,
such as AOL Search, DirectHit, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape
Search, etc.
Yahoo has also very big web directory. Submit to the web
directories of local websites also.
Forums/groups: Register yourself with the forums/groups of
similar idea as your website and send messages with url of your
website to the members. Some of the groups are following:
http://groups.yahoo.com/ www.google.com/grphp?hl=en
Links/Recommended sites: Make a page Links/recommended sites and
list sites that are similar to your site. In exchange of it get
yourself added to their site. Invite Webmasters of interesting
sites to see your site and get a listing in their link page.
Submit pages of other websites where your website is registered
to the search engines. It will increase your ranking in search
engine. The search engine logic is that the more sites linked to
your site, the better of resource your site would be on
particular topic.
After some time you will feel that you had submitted your site
to all the search engines, web directories, sites etc. At this
point you should learn from your competitor sites. You should
find the places where your competitor site is registered. To
find this just search link: (eg. link:www.satp.org)
in any search engine like google and it will give you the list
of the pages where it is registered. What else you need?
Register your site to all these pages.
Now see the result. Have passions, it takes some time to give
result. Search engines and sites take time to analysis sites.
And once it is listed it will remain there for long and will
give you results, whereas in advertisement we have to pay for
each hour and day.
I had used the above said methods and had an increase of 80 per
cent hits in one month and it is increasing every month till
now.
About the author:
Pushkar Pathak is Operation Head of Excel Solutions
(www.excelsolutions.biz). Excel Solutions is providing free
website maintenance right now.
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