Now that your website is on the internet, it is important to draw visitors to it. There are a number of ways to increase traffic to your website through active promotion. If you have any questions about the following suggestions feel free to contact us.

1. Promote your website address
2. Submit your site to search engines.
3. Submit your site to different directories.
4. Exchange links with other sites.
5. Offer something for free.

1. Promote your website address

There are a number of places to promote your website address including business cards, letterheads & fax sheets, company brochures, on the side of company cars, Telecom White Pages/Yellow Pages, company invoices & receipts, quotes that you do, answer phones, etc.

2. Submit your site to search engines.

This is a "must do". Your RealBiz site is search engine optimised through the use of meta tags including keywords and a description. On top of this we ensure that your content is descriptive and search engine friendly. We are happy to conduct search engine submissions on your behalf.

3. Submit your site to different directories.

Submitting your site to directories not only gives you more hits, it also increases your link popularity. The number of web pages linking to your site is considered an important factor by many search engines to achieve a high ranking. A link from an important site such as Google is given more weight than any other link. RealBiz will do this for you on Open Directory as part of our search engine submission service. The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others.

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4. Exchange links with other sites.

As mentioned before, link popularity is considered an important factor by many search engines to achieve a high ranking ,so you would want your link on as many other sites as possible. Links from sites related to yours are also given more weight by the search engines so you should try to get your link on such sites.

5. Offer a web discount or something for free.

If you can offer something for free or a web special on your website, do so. People are always interested in free stuff so it is a great way of attracting them to your website. This will also provide you with a way to gauge how many people are visiting your site and then actively making contact with you.

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