Promoting your web site
TEXT, TEXT, TEXT – it’s all about text on your pages.
Put some descriptive text on your pages – this is what search engines are looking for. Even in images – search engines look at the name of the image file because – it is text.
Text that goes along with the purpose of your website is the best.
There are web master tools available from google for those who have gmail account. These are very helpful for any web site, even if not hosted with google.
Directions here:
http://www.google.com/support/sites/bin/topic.py?topic=15324
Start with this:
Submit your site url to google http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/index.html
Click ‘add your URL’ link
Links to your site from other sites will increase your popularity.
You can exchange links with other sites: if you know someone with a website – offer them to put link to their site on your site in exchange they do the same for you.