RE: How to promote a Web site?

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com>]

This leads me to ask related question,  I read in an article in INTERCOM
awhile back, that if you don't submit your website to a search engine,
the "spider" programs out there will never pick it up unless another
website that is indexed contains a link to it.  But I've also heard that
those spiders routinely crawl the web and pick up anything and
everything out there.  Which is correct?

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Oppenheimer [mailto:Steven -at- OppenheimerCommunications -dot- com] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: How to promote a Web site?


Within the next few days I will be posting a dramatically altered and 
updated Web site for my business, Oppenheimer Communications, which 
provides technical writing services.  I'd like to ensure that when
people 
search for writers, technical writers, or technical communicators on the

Web, my site shows up prominently near the top of the listings.

I went to Yahoo to check out their paid offerings for increased Web site

visibility, and it's one of those cases of too many options -- I can't
make 
heads or tails of what is what.  All I want is to spend no more than a 
couple of hundred dollars, on a one-time basis, to increase my Web site 
visiblity.  I want things so that when people do a search on Google or 
Yahoo for technical writers, there is a reasonable chance my company
shows 
up near the top of the listing.  (The question is, what can I do by way
of 
paid fees to achieve this;  I've already optimized the pages in terms of

keywords, links, and such.)  Can anyone who has been there/done that
walk 
me through the process, and tell me what options/services/features I'm 
looking for?

Thanks in advance for all replies.

Steve O.

Steven Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer Communications
Technical and Business Writing: Making The Complex Accessible
Steven -at- OpComm -dot- com   www.OpComm.com  (301) 468-9233  
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