FW: Submitting websites to search engines

[Dianna M Roberts]

Dear Web4libbers,

Thanks to all of you who have responded.

To anyone else who is interested in this topic, and who doesn't already
subscribe to the excellent newsletter Freepint http://www.freepint.co.uk/
there is some useful stuff included in their latest issue received today.

Regards,
Dianna

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Dianna Roberts, Manager TeLIS (The Library & Information Service)
Opus International Consultants, P O Box 12004, Wellington,
NEW ZEALAND Ph. 0064-4-4717250     Fax. 0064-4-4731075
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Subject: Web site promotion
From:    Various
Date:    January 1999

We continue to receive a horde of emails asking how to drive more
traffic to Web sites and promote them effectively with the smallest
budget. We have covered this in a number of past issues ...

Web Site Promotion Ideas
  . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/121198.htm
First Amongst Equals (Search Engine Placement)
  . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/230798.htm
Web Site Marketing - How do they do that?
  . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/110698.htm
The International Marketing Power of Domain Names
  . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/020498.htm

            ... but here are some more suggestions ...

"My Internet in Print Index lists over 160 Internet magazines and
magazines with Internet columns available at:

            http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/inprint.html

Announcing services can guarantee some hits, especially:
Whatsnew.com ..... http://www.whatsnew.com/whatsnew/
What's New Too! .. http://newtoo.manifest.com/today.html

The announcing newsgroups don't seem to be very effective nowadays."
   Roddy MacLeod, Senior Faculty Librarian, Heriot-Watt University

"How do you attract visitors to your website with the smallest
possible budget? Why, pose an interesting question to the thousands of
subscribers to a high-quality free internet publication, of course!"
   Jenny Gristock - http://www.sussex.ac.uk/prpk1/index.html

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Subject: Feedback on Free Pint
From:    Various
Date:    December 1998 and January 1999

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Subject: Corrections in #28
From:    Rex Cooke, Editor, Free Pint
Date:    Wednesday 6th January 1999

Thank you to those keen-eyed readers who spotted the (not so)
intentional errors in issue #28:

* "EEVL" is indeed the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
  available at http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
  By the way, several enhancements are currently being introduced,
  including extra search functionality.  Check it out.
* "Dates From Hell" is at http://www.datesfromhell.com/dfh/index.htm
  About to launch an e-zine if you're interested
* "There is a world market for maybe five computers." was indeed
  originally misjudged by Thomas Watson

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