Promote Your Website !

Promoting a new website is never easy for most of us. And not a fun job too especially after choosing the best hosting provider. That is why this guide is created by Malaysian-Hosts - to show us how to promote our new website effectively!

In-code factors

This relates to you website codes. The search engine goes through your website codes in order to put it into their list of websites. This includes your page content, META tags, page names, ALT tags, TITLE tags, Header tags, site directory, and such. In these codes, you should include relevant information such as your website keywords that you wish to promote. This lets the search engine know what your site is about and when to put your website in a search result.

Off-code factors

This relates to any other website, search engine submission, and other factors that you may find harder to control. One example is links that opens up to your website. Below are some important factors you need to know:

Search engine
You need to make sure your website is listed on main search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. This can be done using tools like 'Web Position' , 'Web CEO' and 'IBP'. Other search engine submissions that claim to submit your website to thousands of search engines usually are not as effective.

Links (from search engine point of view)

You need to know this too ! It is one of the most important factors that get you good search engine results. Links that go to your website lets search engines know wether your site is popular or not. Below are some link factors:

Image links - in image ALT tags, a simple 'food website' is always better than 'click here'

Link Direction - website that link to you but you do not link to them. Gives you more value than reciprocal links ( both of your sites link to each other)

Site Value - The value of the site linking to your site is considered too. If the site has a low value in search engines and it links to your site, it wont increase your site value by much.

Site Relevance - Site releveance also plays an important role. If a food website links to your clothes website, it will be of lower value when compared to a clothes website linking to your clothes website.

Advertising

Of course we all know advertising is needed. But how do we do it effective online advertising !?

Pay per click by Google/Yahoo - Make sure your advertisement contains as many relevant keywords as possible. Why ? Because that is the way it works. Google gives relevant advertisements to relevant websites. So if you put in an irrelavant keyword, you just wated a lot of money.

Blog advertisement like Nuffnang/Advertlets - Make sure you get a professional graphic designer that does banner advertisements. This helps you by making the banner look more attractive.