Free Tips To Bring More Hits To Your Financial Website

1. Search Engines: Make sure you're listed with the top search engines. Here are direct links for posting your site.

• Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
• Excite: http://www.excite.com/info/add_url
• Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/addurl
• Infoseek: http://guide.infoseek.com/AddUrl?pg=DCaddurl.html
• Web Crawler: http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url
• AOL: http://search.aol.com/add.adp
• Hot Bot: http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.asp
• Lycos: http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html
• Northern Light Search: http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
• Google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html

2. Search Engine Visibility: Can you find your webpage on the above search engines? Check each of the search engines above to make sure that you can find your webpage. Poor page titles and lack of meta tags will make your page hard to find at the search engines.

3. Meta Tags: Here's a couple of "How to" guides for editing your html title and meta tags to get even better results at the major search engines.

• VirtualPromote Meta Tag Basics
• How To Use Meta Tags

4. Multiple Pages: Don't stop with your home page. Submit every page at your site or at least every major page of your site to the search engine list above. The exception is Yahoo. Submit only your home page to Yahoo.

5. Financial Directories: Make sure you're listed with the top financial website directory on the World Wide Web, Invest-O-Rama!, link noted below. And, make sure you're listed in our directory as well, FAT's Financial Directory. Listings to both directories are free.

• Stocks.com
• InvestorGuide
• FAT's Financial Directory

6. Swap Links: Start a reciprocal link list page on your site and swap links with other financial websites. FAT has a list of financial sites that would like to swap links with your site. This list can be found below.

• The FAT Reciprocal Link List

7. Banner Advertising: Want to make your own banners? You need a good graphics program.

• Paint Shop Pro
• Tutorial for PSP

8. Banner Clickthru: If you advertise your website with banner ads, check here for tips and tricks on how to improve your banner clickthrough rate.

• Banner Design Tools

9. Banner Size: When it comes to banner ads, size does matter. Here's a free utility to reduce the size of your banner so it loads faster.

• NetMechanic's GifBot

10. Free Advertising: Last but not least, get free banner advertising by JOINING FAT!


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