Search Engine Submission and Marketing

If you expect your website to do work for you, it wont. As a business owner you realize you must get customers to your store. The same is true with your website. With 4 Trillion pages on the internet the chance of anyone finding yours is slim.

But with some help you can achive extensive traffic and heavy sales. The hard part of e-commerce is building the website. We have tried to simplify that for you. Assuming you are done here are some tips aout marketing.

Submitting Your Website for searching. You do not actually have to submit your website because they will crawl all domains registered at ineternic. Your website is usually indexed before you even build it. But submitting it will often update the search engines files. If you want to submit your pages you must do it at each website manually. We do not advise buying any services or using automated submission software. Almost all search engines are excluding listings from automated websites and software. This could cause your listing to be delayed or denied completely. It may be a pain to do it manually but its the only way you are sure it will be listed. Listing will take 30 to 90 days in most cases. You can usually buy an express submission directly from each search engine, but its just another form of extortion. They hold your submission for 2 months unless you pay them, its up to you. But we cn give you better ways to spend your money.

Remember that there are thousands of websites and companies selling useless services to people that don't know better. For example we could easily charge you $100 to submit your websites automatically. However it would be wasted money since it would not work. We do not recomend using any of the online services. 99% are scams.

Here are links to some of the main search engine submission pages
Submit to GOOGLE
Submit Alta Vista
All The Web
Look Smart
Yahoo
What U Seek
Aesop
Exact Seek
National Directory
DMOZ - Includs AOL Search, DirectHit, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search

Traffic programs -

Google Ad Words - This is the easiest way to get traffic to your website TODAY. You can pay for click thrus, but they are targeted traffic and usually of high quality. This will allow you to specify how much you want to pay and which keyword searches you want your ad shown. You can spen as little as a few dollars or hundreds of thousands.

Link Exchanges and Web Rings - you can exchange links with other sites or become part of a webring that will generate traffic for your website. A good place to start is https://www.webring.com

Your primary traffic will come from your existing customers and realworld advertising such as newspaper, magazine, radio and TV. Your website is not a funnel to bring in traffic to your business, it is a way to have your business open to millions of potential customer 24-7 while you are sleeping. The power of selling products10 hours after you have left your store is unreal.

You will still need the skills that have made your business sucessful. Follow the same guidelines to promote your website. Use the power of being able to cash out hundreds of customers at one time with out paying an employee. Think bigger and bigger. But remmber that a sucessful website is not an overnite project. It takes time and effort just like any other business. Eventually you will build a customer base and have a soild stream of sales.