Dogbark.com >> 5 Easy Steps >> Step 5: Promote your site.

There are many ways to promote your site. We are firm believers in using print and electronic marketing and advertising venues to reach your desired target audience.

• Search Engines and Indexes.

Search engines and indexes are a great way to get your site found. You can go to search engines and ask them to list your site with them. There are hundreds of engines and indexes out there. Beware of "services" that claim to list you with 1,000s of search engines. This may land you on every SPAM mailing list out there.

If you want to learn how to make your site search engine friendly do a search for a tutorial. You can probably find plenty of info at Google.

• Direct Mail.

Send a letter or postcard to your target market. Postcards are economical and don't take a heck of a lot of effort to send, or read. We use Modern Postcard for our postcards. They will even use your list and send out your cards for less than the cost of postage. Purchase a mailing list from a company who does that sort of thing. Workbook actually sells their list. That's a great creative industry resource. Their list is pretty reliable.

• Direct Email.

Be careful with this one. There's a fine line between email promotion and spam. Actually, it's a line you don't want to play with. Just because you gathered hundereds of email addresses from all your friends doesn't mean that sending them all an email about your site isn't spamming. If you want to use direct email as a form of advertising be sure to use a reputable "opt-in" email list service. Opt-in means that people actually requested info related to what you wish to promote. We can help you create a form on your site that would be a great place to begin building a list of people that want to get email from you about your work.
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Well that's the last of the 5 Easy Steps. See how easy it can be to have a webpresence? Let us know if you have any questions that we haven't answered here... or Order Hosting with Dogbark Now!