Getting Your Website Noticed

This is really just the first step in your websites life. So you have built the website you need, the real challenge is in getting visitors.

So you have already seen search engines 101, It looks as if it is everything you need to know about search engines, well it is not, you need to know and do more, fortunately you can click the following link for the more you are looking for (Search engine optimization in depth), But before you do that you should take note of the following.

Adding yourself to directories. Have yourself listed in as many directories as possible, Not only do directories  send you visitors, but when a directory is visited by a crawler, your website will be indexed for inclusion, the more directories you have pointing to your website, the more link popularity you will probably get on google the leader in the search engine industry. This is because Yahoo for example ranks very high, so being listed on yahoo enhances your ranking on google.

Post a link to man website on the internet, but not any other website, for example if your friend has a website that is already getting a good amount of visitors and has good content (make sure it is not a kind of website that has adult content or illegal content leading to you being penalized), and that content is RELEVANT to your website ask him to link to you and ask him for relative link text, for example this link i would want on other websites to promote this website (A guide to building a great website free)

Send Emails to your friends and tell them about your new website. (sending Email to people you don't know is considered spam and will most probably get your website penalized or deleted)

Print your website domain or domain redirector on your business card, don't print your subdomain, in the case that you did not buy a domain name, print the free .TK ( Open in new window ) domain you registered.

There are many useful things you can do to get your website noticed, the important ones are already mentioned or you are going to learn in (search engine optimization in depth), many unimportant but useful things can be done, for example Post links to your BLOG  Ex BLOG :http://trafficx.blogspot.com/.