Website Promotion
January 4, 2009 by Dawn
Filed under General Crafts
“If you build it, they will come…”
Well, not exactly.
However, with a little more effort, and a lot of persistence
They will come!
Website promotion is made up of many points.
- Optimizing your website for search engines
- Finding search engines to submit to
- Finding Directories
- Building Links to your website
- Choosing the right advertising for your website
All of these need to be taken into consideration when setting out to get the most out of your time and money.
Browse through the pages listed below to find some of our favorite website promotion resources.
Search Engines
Here you will find resources to help you get your pages listed in the search engines that will bring you the most traffic. Free Search Engine Optimization Tools and Search Engine Submitters are available here!
Directories
By submitting your website to directories, you will be able to add valuable links to your website. directories also help drive traffic to your website. Browse through a list of directories that we frequently visit.
Plugboards
Submit your banner to plugboards for more free advertising. You can target your customer base by placing on website that already draws the traffic you are marketing to.
Business Promotion
January 4, 2009 by Dawn
Filed under General Crafts
It takes a lot of work to get this far.
After all of the business start up decisions have been made, and the initial investments have been spent, you need to find effective ways to get your business name to the world.
Depending on the amount of time and money that you would like to spend, there are a lot of options out there.
So, which ones are best for you and your business?
Set up an advertising budget.
- Decide how much money you will spend before you start spending anything.
- Once you have set a total amount, you can start to decide how and where to spend each portion of that amount.
Define your Target Audience
- What types of customers will be most likely to respond to your product?
- By knowing the answer to this question, you will be able to target your advertising to reach the most of these customers.
- Where are these potential customers most likely to notice advertising? For instance, a large portion of our audience is crafters looking for advice. Therefore advertising on one of our pages will place your business in the sights of this type of crafter.
Decide how much time to devote to free advertising options.
- Listing in directories, submitting articles, traffic and banner exchanges, all of these are free ways to advertise your website, but trying to submit to each type of free advertising can be very time consuming.
- Decide which free advertising options will reach the most of your target audience.
Is your website ready for the rush of traffic?
- Before you even start advertising, make sure that your website is ready for business.
- There is nothing worse than spending time and money advertising only to bring visitors to a website with errors.
Search Engine Optimization
- A majority of online traffic comes from search engines.
- It is best for business if your website is ready to handle to robots and spiders sent out by these search engines.
- Our Search Engines page will help you make the most of this free advertising option.
Print Promotions
- Overnight Prints
- Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers, Brochures, Letterhead, Greeting Cards & Envelopes Overnight.
- PrintingForLess
- Color Printing of Brochures, Postcards, Catalogs and Stationery.

