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the search engine secrets the pro's don't want you to know
Sites to help you improve your hit
rate
POSITION-IT
http://www.positionagent.com/free.htm
HOW TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHERE
YOU RANK IN THE SEARCH ENGINE LISTINGS.
Have you got that sinking feeling of not being able to find your
site's keywords into a search engine?
We all know that unless you come in the first few pages people
aren't likely to find you. But how do you know where you are?
Try using PositionAgent's free trial service at
http://www.positionagent.com/free.htm
This free version of PositionAgent lets you view the search engine
rankings for your website on 10 top search engines for a selected
keyword or phrase.
A warning though. It can be very upsetting. My site didn't show
up at all in the top 500. After I'd finished choking I searched for
some of the entreprenarial sites I like. I felt much better when
Jim Daniels Bizweb 2000 site came in at 478 with one search engine,
and, like me, nowhere in the others.
WEB SITE GARAGE
Do yourself a big favour and visit Web Site Garage for a
tune up.The mechanics at Web Site Garage help you to get peak performance from your
Web site. A 5 point checkup to diagnose common mistakes in Web site maintenance and
promotion. Tools to address the three critical areas in maintaining and promoting a
successful Web site.
SUBMIT IT
Use Submit It!, the leader in Web site marketing services, to promote your Web site
on the Internet. For one low fee they will submit your site to hundreds of search engines.
WEB PROMOTE
RANK THIS!
http://www.rankthis.com/
How do you get your site listed near the top of a search
engine's hit listing?
Rank This! is there for those Webmasters who fret over
how their site ranks in the search engines.
Its main use is to automate the dreary, monotonous task
of fashioning queries and tracking down where your site
ranks in response to certain keyword searches for eight
different search engines.
A Dictionary of HTML META Tags
http://wwwvancouver-webpages.com/META/metatags.frame.html
Pretty technical, but includes a great FAQ about meta tags, with
answers to questions like: "How can I stop people re-framing my pages ?"
Or, there's the long-titled, "HTML Writers Guild Using Meta for Search
Engines FAQ" http://www.hwg.org/faqs/metaFAQ.html
and the masterful
A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines
http://calafia.com/webmasters/
by Danny Sullivan, Calafia Consulting. Invaluable: the section called Tips For Search
Engine Success http://calafia.com/webmasters/tips.htm
WEB BOUNCING
If that web address you want sounds good, looks good, and makes
sense, theirs a good chance that someone else already has it.
It's becoming an increasingly difficult task to get the .com
address you want.
One clever answer to the problem can be found at
http://bounce.to
which unlike other services offering a free web space far down a document tree, allows
users to move right up behind the very short domain names.
By inserting bounce.to before the name you wanted, the visitor
attempting to find you is automatically moved to your site.
There's a small price to pay - the visitor will be confronted by
an advertising banner for five seconds before moving onto your
site (by the way I think we're going to see this kind of
advertising become far more prevalent real soon now).
In cost terms it is free to you, the site owner.
More info at http://bounce.to/
Free Online Classifed Ad Sites |
There are well over 1000 web sites where you can place free or very cheap classified
adverts. You can find complete lists at http://www.ural.com
but here are some of the bigger and better ones.
1. Internet Yellow Pages
http://www.ebp.com/cgi-win/classent32-1.exe?
2. Gateway Classified Ads
http://www.gatewayads.com/class.html#6
3. CVC Business Opportunity Ads
http://cvcprod.ca/west/busoport.htm
4. Best Mall Classified Ads
http://www.bestmall.com/class/submit.html
5. Business Classifieds
http://www.bizclassifieds.com/
6. Hitch Hikers
://www.hitchhikers.net/classifieds/index.phtml
7. Business Solutions Classifieds
http://www.bizsol.com/
8. Five Star Classified Ads
http://www11.pair.com/vw/5starads/
9. Classifieds 2000
http://www.classifieds2000.com/
10. First America Mall
http://www.1second.com/addad.htm
11. http://www.FSBI.com/submitindice.htm
This site alone gets over 100,000 visitors a day, and
it's free to advertise there!
12. http://www.1second.com/freead.htm
site pulls like gangbusters... and it's FREE!
13. ://www.webnophobia.com/classifieds/placeads.html
Great for almost anything and it is FREE!!!!!
14. http://www.classifieds-gmp.com/
This site is new, but is getting more and
more popular every day.
15. http://www.webovation.com/ads.htm
A great new site that pulls orders very fast.
16. http://www.websitings.com/classifieds/
Could it be we saved the best for last?
see for yourself!
SmartClicks - An innovative banner service that goes above
and beyond most other link exchanges in many ways in that
you can target your banner to a specific audience. An
Bann impressive service particularly with their targeting
control panel and stats.
http://www.smartclicks.com/
GSAnet.com - There are lots of banner services around these
days but if you're looking to get the most exposure for
your Web site, GSAnet.com is one of the best. This service
offers you some of the best ratios of any major link
exchange. If you display their banner at the top of your
site, you'll get an impressive 1 to 1 ratio of displays for
your banner.
http://bs.gsanet.com
LinkExchange - This banner service is the biggest and
best-known of its type. You get one exposure of your
banner for every two hits to your page. Banners must be
400 X 40 pixels in size.
http://www.linkexchange.com
123Banners - An up-and-coming link exchange with around
2000 members. The concept is simple: by joining, you
agree to display advertising banners for other members, and
they agree to display banners for you. You can decide what
type of sites to advertise on and advertise for so you don't
need to worry about inappropriate material showing up on your
pages. You get one exposure of your banner for every two
banners displayed on your site (similar to Link Exchange).
http://www.123banners.com
BannerWeb - New banner service that allows you to submit up
to 10 banners simultaneously and have the most effective ones
shown the most often, automatically.
http://www.bannerweb.com
Bannerad - Another free banner exchange service.
http://bannerad.ipgnet.com/index.htm
TradeBanners Network. - This service is similar to
Link Exchange.
http://www.resource-marketing.com/banner.html
LinkTrader - This banner exchange offers a higher-than-average
70-to-30 ratio. Banners must be 400 by 50 pixels.
http://www.linktrader.com/
Net-On's Banner Exchange - A small Sweden-based link exchange
that offers you a generous 4:5 banner exposure ratio. Animated
gifs are OK. They accept banners of varying sizes, which can
be a drawback, as you can't take advantage of the HTML size
tags to speed up loading of banner images. Sometimes their
banners don't load quickly which can hold up your page at
times. They still have a ways to go before they can be
considered in the top rank of banner exchanges.
http://www.net-on.se:81/banner/index.html.
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