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Issue no. 151, Feb 18, 2002
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100 Ways to promote your site -
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Food for thought
100 Ways to promote -
The Classifieds
Next Issues
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Blitz Comments
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Last
week went by in a whirl - this week our issue focuses
on one of the most powerful ways to market your site
- affiliate programs. We have really just tipped the
iceburg, but hopefully the links listed will give you
a good head start.
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Food for thought
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Live
out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
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100 ways to promote your site #40
Affiliate Programs
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Overview-
Steps-
1.
Inform your web host that you are going to start an
affiliate program.
2. Choose the software that you want to use to run your
program.
3. Promote your affiliate program.
Getting
Started
1.
It is very important that you tell your web host that
you are getting ready to start an affiliate program
and ask about their guidelines, especially when it comes
to spam.... why , well believe it or not some folks
will try to spam about your program. If you haven't
taken some steps to prevent this, then your site could
be taken down.
Software
Here
is an excellent article on different software / methods
for setting up your program.
http://www.associateprograms.com/search/howto.shtml
Some
nice information on starting an affiliate program -
including a nice list of links.
http://www.ecomresourcecenter.com/promote/startaffiliate.html
Promotion
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Affiliate
directory sites to add your listings-
http://www.associate-it.com/
http://www.associateprograms.com
http://www.associatesearch.com/
http://www.2-tier.com/
2 tier programs only.
You
can also find tons more in Google, Yahoo, DMOZ just
search for 'affiliate program directories' and / or
'associate program directories'..
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100 ways to promote your site #41
The Idea Cafe
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The
Idea Cafe is a site that caters to small business folks
on the web. One way you can promote your site for free
is to submit a profile. You have to register on their
site, but that is relatively painless. They also offer
you the option of continuing to have your site listed
for a fee. Details can be found here-
http://www.businessownersideacafe.com/business_people/index.php
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100 ways to promote your site #42
Blogging It
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So
what in the world is a blog... glad you asked.
The
blogger site says -
"Blogger offers you instant communication power
by letting you post your thoughts to the web whenever
the urge strikes. "
http://www.blogger.com/
It
is an easy way to write content and post it on the web,
kind of like a web diary of sorts. We have used this
for several of our design clients that wanted a way
to add content, without having to learn html or anything
else. Basically you just have to know how to type.
How
do you create a blog -
Complete details on how to do it can be found here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,645975,00.html
How
will it help you to promote your website.
People
love fresh content - the fresher the better. Using blog
helps you to provide fresh content anywhere that you
have internet access.
The
possibilites are endless - you can
Syndicate
your blog
http://www.blogger.com/howto/java_syndicate.pyra
Publicize
your blog to 5 or so specific blog directories.
http://www.blogger.com/howto/publicize.pyra
Till
next time take care.
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