A simple way to Get Your Webste notice

Your website is just one of the billion sites parked on the  Web. Chances are, you do not think you will ever get noticed.We hear your cries for cyber attention. Here are five ways to get people to click to your site.

A.) Make sure it is professional looking.

No one likes to see a website that reminds them of a book report they wrote back in school. Investment in learning a good web design program (Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft Frontpage are good picks), and let your creative juices flow. Make sure it's attractive, well designed and organized. People do not exactly find it fun to weed through haystacks of cyberfiles to get the information they want.

On that note, do not make a serious site. Put some flash intros may be great like candy, but the average internet surfer only waits 10 seconds for pages to load, and then they will go to the next.

2.) Enter your URL on every search engine possible.

Put your URL on business cards and disrupt your family and your friends to check out your site will not exactly increase traffic. Submitting to search engines will help people to find you, provided you bring the topic of Web pages they're looking for. To understand how search engines work, think of it as "the spider": it crawls through your website, take the words and the information will then be indexed in search engines database. So make sure you pepper your site with keywords you think are relevant to what people are looking for. Web directories, like Yahoo!, are operated by humans who actually categorize the websites themselves.

If you do not feel like submitting your site to many directories, consider subscribing to sites like www.submit-it.com, who, for a fee, will automatically submit your site to search engines and directories for you.

3.) Link everywhere.

Find other sites that carry similar content as yours and ask to exchange links. Create a banner to be placed on other people's websites, and offers for the same to them on your site. Add your URL in the e-mail signature. Join webrings if you must-there's nothing like strength in numbers.

4.) Ad offline.

Cyberspace is not enough to make you see. Writing press releases and send them to local newspapers and magazines. Print a brochure to be distributed. Make sure that your site is up and running to avoid giving people a bad impression (no one likes getting pumped up for something only to be disappointed).

5.) Interact with your readers.

Replacing the forum or message board for your visitors to interact with each other. Chat rooms are often time-consuming for some, while message boards allows them to check back often for replies. Create e-mail list so you can update your visitors about new developments, and always open to feedback-that's what will make your site better.