| aHolyPlace.com | ||
|
Free Internet Services For All Churches & Denominations |
||
|
|
||
|
Personal domain names |
Promoting Your Site
| Marketing or promoting your site is a
very important and often overlooked business necessity. As in the real
world, just building a store will not bring in customers. No matter how
excellent your products or services and prices are. No matter how great
your customer service is, if people don't know about it, it won't be
successful.
So how do I let people know that I exist? Great question. In the real world you'd probably look at media and print ads like newspaper, telephone books, magazine, radio and television. This is a very effective way to go if you can afford it. But since most of us can't and we're dealing with the great equalizer called the Internet, we don't have to. Instead you can promote yourself through the Internet at a very small fraction of the cost of real world ads and promotions. |
Search Engines! |
| The most common way a viewer (potential
customer) would go about searching the billions of websites on the
Internet is to use a search engine like;
Google, Alta Vista,
Yahoo or
Lycos just to name a few. There are
actually thousands of search engines available but the above mentioned
are 4 of the major big 10. Many of the others deal with more narrow and
specific topics and therefore fewer people use them for searching. It's
like using a magazine to find a business phone number instead of using
the phone book.
You don't really have to submit your site information to a search engine for them to find you. Most of them use bot programs to scour the web in order to find new and outdated pages and sites. But since this process can take months if not years and your site would have to be configured and optimized for these search engines, it would be much faster and more effective if your site information was submitted to them directly. There are many commercial programs and even free services that will allow you to manually do this yourself. But then it's a matter of you having the time and/or expertise. The procedure should be done repeatedly every 30 days and your homepage would have to have optimized meta tags in order to have a good chance at getting a good ranking. Your ranking is important because you can easily be dealing with thousands and thousands of competing sites. In other words, it's not good to be the 20th listing on page 100. Very few people are going to get that far. aHolyPlace.com will do all of this work for you for as little as $10 per month and a $25 one time setup fee. That's right! aHolyPlace.com will submit your site's information to 50 of the most popular search engines on the Internet and continue to resubmit as long as your account remains open. Send us an email for more information or to apply. |
Banner Ads! |
| This is another inexpensive yet effective
way of Internet advertising. You can either pay a company or website to
host your banner on their site/s. This generally costs about $50 per
month per ad. And keep in mind that it may be for only one site.
There are also banner ad sites or communities. They will place your banner on many of their member's sites if you allow them to place their member's banners on your site. This banner exchange is quite common on the Internet and can be quite effective if you have an effective eye catching banner. aHolyPlace.com will design a banner for you to be place with a banner exchange community for a one time fee of $15. Additional banner designs can be purchased for only $10 per banner. These banners are comparable to ones you see on the bottom of the pages of this site. |
