Archive for July, 2009

Promote Your Business With Social Media Sites

Most people consider the Internet as a place to learn, work, or play. As time goes by, more and more people get connected to it. And so, the means it can be utilised keep on growing exponentially. No wonder why many companies are using this technology to put their businesses online to reach more potential customers.

From the traditional media, most people are now aware that the digital media is steadily gaining momentum. If before pen pal letters seem to be the only way to create friends from a distance, you can now instantly connect with friends and even gain new ones through online messengers such as MSN and Yahoo. Little girls used to write their day-to-day experience in their diary. But now, thanks to technology, they can easily ‘blog’ about their experiences.
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Directory Submission – The First Thing You Should Do After Launching a New Website

One of many challenges following the design of a website is getting it indexed and ranked in the major search engines. There are several different actions that must be taken and an important one is link building. This involves getting links from other web sites and preferably those in the same business as yours. The longer link building efforts continue the quicker your website will start to rank well in the search engines. One process that contributes to link building efforts is web directory submission.

A web directory is the place where you can find all types of business and personal websites. It is much like the telephone directories except with the benefit of searching. Web directories have main categories and sub-categories; you want to make sure the category you submitting to is highly relevant to your website. Always make a directory submission for your website to a directory that you know is read by the search engine crawlers. It helps to improve your site’s rankings because the crawler will be able to read the link’s destination – your website.
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