Promoting your site isin’t an simple task there are lot that you have to do, today while surfing the net I read a lot of articles about it and most of them has the listed below things in common.

The following 5 steps helps you to promote your website, though there are a lot of ways, but I have included the first basic 5 steps that everyone must do, these 5 steps helps you to get initial traffic and ranking.

1. Submit your website to the three major search engines

Here are links to submit your site to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Baidu:

1. Submit your site to Google
2. Submit your site to Yahoo
3. Submit your site to Bing
4. Submit your site to Baidu

2. Verify your site with Webmaster Tools and submit a site-map

This step will help your website to get indexed in various search engines and thereby help in generating traffic from search engines.

1. Create a Google Webmaster Account
2. Create a Bing Webmaster Account
3. Create a Yahoo Webmaster Account

3. Submit your site to website directories

Adding your new site to the major directories is a key task if you want to build traffic and page ranking. Best 3 free web Directories are-

1. Yahoo
2. Dmoz
3. Zeal
4. Links of free web directories

4. Submit articles to article directories

A few article directories to get you started:

1. Ideamarketers
2. Ezinearticles

5. Get involved in social networking

Social Network really helps you to get loads of traffic, promoting your website in social networking sites is more beneficial than advertising.

1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. Myspace
4. Orkut

What else you do to promote your website? Would you like to share with us?

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