Market your website - Ping your blog Posts - RSS feeds - facebook - twitter

There are a lot of ways to market your website on the internet including search engine submission, ping your blog, social networking sites like twitter and facebook.  Here is an overview of these different methods.

Submit your site to Search Engines - Search engines send robot "spiders" to index the content of your webpage.  You can go to each search engine individually and manually input your website information or use submission sites - many are free and submit to numerous sites at one time.

META Tags and keywords - This describes your website. The description should be a sentence or two describing the content of the web page, using the main keywords and key phrases on this page. Add to your websites html.

Ping your Blog -to improve the popularity of your blog and make sure the search engines can find you.  There are many free websites that with a click of a button will send you blog or website out to dozens of internet sources were you will get lots of exposure.

WHY:  to make sure your website shows up on searches

WHEN: only ping when you have added new content to your site or a new post



RSS (Rich Site Summary) - is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

Basically RSS is what is used when you subscribe to a website or blog - you get notified anytime there is new content on their site.

Headlines - Headlines are very important - use important keywords in your title of each post or entry - instead of "Home sales are rising" put "Home sales are rising - St. Louis, Mo Jefferson County Real Estate".  Make your Titles unique and expand on your theme.  This gives the search engines more words to pick up on.

Links - Links to your site from other sites drive additional traffic and increase your page rank with the search engines, getting your higher on the page.  The more the links are related to your site the better.

Social Media - chat about your website on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.

Comment - Search other sites that are similar in content to yours and leave a comment.  When you do this you also leave your name and the URL of your website.  This is one of the best ways to drive pertinent traffic to your website.  You make new friends too.

Bookmark - Have a bookmark on your site, so that you and others visiting can quickly share your post with others. When visitors click the button on your page, they are automatically taken to a page that allows them to choose which bookmarking service they prefer, and then pre-populates the appropriate form with the title and URL of your webpage.  Try it out now.    

Signature - use a signature in your email with the link to your website, blog, facebook, twitter, etc.