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This automatic data entry is one of SelfPromotion.com's most powerful and subtle features. There are many minor indexes out there that might only generate 5 or 10 hits a year for you. It isn't worth spending 5-10 minutes at each of these sites to register by hand, but because the extra information you have to enter to promote to one more site using SelfPromotion.com usually takes you less than a minute to enter, it makes it possible for you to register at more sites than you otherwise would if you were doing it by hand.
It wouldn't be cost-effective for you to spend an extra hour or two of your time doing registrations that might get you an extra 100 visitors a year (and maybe 1 or 2 sales). But if it only took you 10 minutes, it's a different story. Which is the real power of this site. It saves you time.
Why are these articles crucial? Because getting into the search engines is a waste of time if you don't rank highly for queries that are important to you. Most people not only don't set up their pages to be search-engine friendly, but waste their time targeting the wrong keywords! Similarly, people are always complaining about how tough it is to get into Yahoo, and that's nonsense. It's easy to get into Yahoo if you have a decent site and you apply correctly. Furthermore, if you learn how to optimize your Yahoo listing, you can easily double the clickthroughs you get from them.
This site really has a dual purpose; to teach you the basic techniques you need to know to effectively promote your site, and to provide you with a power tool that makes the job easier to do. I like to think of site promotion as similar to nailing together a house; my goal is to teach you what nails to use, where you need to nail them, and give you a handy pneumatic nail-gun that will let you go thwack-thwack-thwack and get the job done quickly.
I have been trying for months to get listed on Yahoo, I tried your method, and I got listed in 2 days!!! -- Jill Annette Johnson Kiser I have been online for years and this is probably the most functional, useful and well designed site I have ever found. It's a blessing for registering a lot of similar pages quickly. -- Sophia Cornet
Great job on this site! It works great for original and re-submissions, and delivers more accurate results than many other so-called "promotion" companies. -- Jonathan Pajion
You should really be impressed you're getting money out of me. I NEVER pay for ANYTHING, but I am THAT impressed with your site. Keep up the good work. Or I'll kill you. -- Jim P Reardon (aka eviljim)
and my current favorite, which proves my mother was right about guilt being good for you:
I know I don't have to contribute again, but your site has saved me so much time and effort that I feel guilty not giving you more money. -- Paige Louise Young
If you are using Navigator 4.x or Explorer 4.x, the data entry form can be seriously JavaScript enhanced, and is even easier to fill out. The Category Autoset feature has to be seen to be believed! It can cut your data-entry time in half by automatically setting categories for you.It's Different! Other promotion services promote your site to a few search engines and indexes for free as a teaser, then ask you to pay $50, $100 or even more to have them submit to "the top 500 search engines and indexes." Even assuming that they actually have a good list of special-purpose indexes, and aren't submitting your site to a bunch of useless Free-For-All links pages, of those 500 sites, perhaps 50 are appropriate for any particular promotion and will actually generate hits for you. The truth, which most people won't tell you, is that the top 10 sites on the net (places like Yahoo, Excite, AltaVista, etc.), will probably generate 90% of the hits you'll get! (No kidding, check out the research I did on this).
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