
Once your web design is complete, you need to promote your website when you first
launch it, both to encourage visitors to your site and to work toward higher rankings with search engines (such as Google). This website promotion includes promoting your site to anyone looking up your type of business or organization in online
business directories.
Afford Ecommerce in West Chester, PA (Chester County)
can identify those online directories most worthwhile for your website and
business. Some directories available for your website promotion are free and some charge fees; the for-pay
directories may or may not be strategic choices depending on your website goals and budget. We can ensure
quality copy for your listings so you have as much or better potential for new customers as the other
businesses listed. A quality business listing is as important as ensuring well-written content in your
web design. We can complete all tasks needed for directory listing, from selecting good directories,
to drafting appealing text for your listing, to ensuring your listing is published error free.
A logical way to increase the chances your website will be found by Internet surfers, is to give them an easy way
to get from sites they are on now to your website. This is done by establishing "Reciprocal Links" with other
websites, and incorporating these links into your web design. These links are a pair of active links-- one link going from one of your webpages to a webpage on
another site, and a second link from that site to one of your webpages. Reciprocal links are beneficial if the two
websites have complementary-- but not competing-- products or services. Afford Ecommerce can identify websites
likely to be visited by people you want to reach with your website, based on your goals and type of business or
organization. We can then perform the necessary coordination and technical work to propose some link pairs
for your website.
We believe in the wisdom of promoting your website using various types of media, in addition to
the Internet medium. After all, you want to reach people as they read their newspapers, their magazines, and flyers
posted in public locations. You can promote your website and business in various print media, in ways that give
people direct incentive to visit your website and respond to what you offer. Website promotion in various print forms are particularly
important when you first launch your website or when you launch new offerings on your website. Periodic
advertisement in print media will remind people about you, and motivate the part of the public that surfs the
Internet less frequently.