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Axandra
www.axandra.com
offers two
software products. IBP is the more important product. With it, you
can optimize your site, and promote it for maximum search engine
ranking.
Their other
product, ARELIS, is a link popularity management tool. Both are very well
designed, and have lots of awards to back them up.
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GoToast
www.gotoast.com
offers a fully integrated set of tools that will do
just about anything you want with regard to web promotion. They offer a 14
day free trial, and rank very well at alexa. Very
solid.
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First Place Software
www.webposition.com
offers a wonderful program that also "does it all." It
is fairly inexpensive, easy to use, and comes with an online video
tutorial that makes learning painless and fast.
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Also, if you want help with promotion, but don't want to shell out for a
stand-alone program, take a look at
www.positionpro.com
and
www.submitexpress.com.
They both rank well at alexa and have clean web
environments to work in.
For those of you
who would rather have someone do the optimization and submission for you,
I recommend
MoreVisibility
www.morevisibility.com
OneUpWeb
www.oneupweb.com
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For the ultimate in fully automated (but you need to "do it yourself
first") company, you just can't beat
SiteSell
www.sitesell.com . At SiteSell, you do the
work, but this amazing company, headed by Ken Evoy, takes care of all the
electronic matters behind the scenes. All you have to do is follow the
system.
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submission more submission
options.
2.
Paid search
engines
(Inktomi, MSN,
Lycos, Jeeves).
The use of
paid inclusion technologies is on the rise. With this method, you can
essential "pay" your way to the top. It is not too expensive, and can
bridge the gap between free engine ranking and the PPC's. To make this
easy and fast (and not too expensive...) I recommend:
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Submit Director
www.submitdirector.com
. These guys have a simple methodology and a clean
interface. They offer a "test drive", and keep your focus on
results.
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Position Technologies
www.positiontechnologies.com
They offer a combination of three programs - Direct
Submit, Trusted Feed, and PositionPro.
3.
Directories
(Yahoo, Look
Smart, Open Directory, AOL).
Directories
are different than search engines.They have actual humans reviewing your
website and determining how high - or even if - you should be listed.
Because they capture a substantial part of the visitor traffic, you
want to make directories a part of your campaign.
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Yahoo! To get started, visit
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/Snoop around this page, and listen to what Yahoo is
trying to tell you. In general, the more you follow the rules, the better off you will be.
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DMOZ (Open Directory) . Go to
http://dmoz.org/add.html
Even though a listing with Open Directory
translates to less traffic than one with Yahoo, it is still worth doing -
and its free!
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LookSmart. Go to
http://listings.looksmart.com/.
While they were originally a pay-for-listing
directory, like Yahoo, they are now moving to a Pay-Per-Click
model.
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The other directories, such as
MSN, AOL, Alta Vista and
Ask Jeeves
are automatically covered when you submit to the big three
above.
4.
Pay-Per-Click's
(Overture,
FindWhat, 7Search, Xuppa, E-Pilot, etc.). These companies allow you
to bid for keyword placement. Each one has a different set of rules and
methodologies.
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Overture is the largest of the pure
PPC's.
www.overture.com.