Supporting the Site

I greatly appreciate your decision to support SelfPromotion.com. To make it even easier, if you're paying by credit card, I'll try to fill in the payment form with as much information as possible from any information you've already given me. With any luck, all you'll need to enter is your credit card information and the amount you wish to pay.

If you haven't completely made up your mind, read on; otherwise you can skip to the form at the bottom of the page.

Account Name: Password: (Or click here to Create New Account) First time here? Before you begin, you might want to read the Search Engine Submission Tool Tutorial. There is also a comprehensive Help & FAQ page available. Forgot your account name or password? Click here to cure your amnesia! To give you a taste of how cool the Secret Net Tools are (you have to contribute to get access to all of them), I've enabled your access to several of the simpler ones. Enjoy! PrettyPrint Are You Listed? License Pl8 Genr8tor Google (my favorite search engine) Getting Started: Welcome (Home Page) Site Help Site FAQ Site Map List of Search Engines Create New Account Tutorials: (read in this order) Preparing your Pages for the Search Engines Using Tooter to submit your site Getting listed in Yahoo (and the other big indexes) Paying for Traffic (Pay-Per-Click) Improving your Search Engine Rankings How to (not) win Awards Articles: Trends in Submission Virtual Vexation The 500 Sites Fallacy Page 1 Paranoia Clickthrough Conundrums The Gullibility Virus A Marketing Course that Works?! Accepting Credit Cards Online Links of Interest Glossary of Useful Terms Random Nonsense Woodhead's Law Cool Domain Names Why I let you decide how much to pay Moral obligations? Be Supportive! Add your Award or Index Make Money Slow! (by linking to me) Suggestion Box Advertising & Sponsorship About the Site: What's New? How it works Promotion Monitor Our Awards Best User Sites User Comments Believe it or not, 11.13% of the people who use SelfPromotion.com support the site!

Benefits of Contributing

First, since I absolutely refuse to have dissatisfied users, SelfPromotion.com comes with a 100% unconditional unlimited no-risk satisfaction-assured no-matter-what no-matter-when money-back guarantee. If at any time, for any reason, you come to feel that your subscription to the site isn't worth what you contributed, even if you've only got 10 minutes left before your year's subscription is up, just let me know why you're unhappy (so I can fix it!) and I'll give you a complete refund. And by the way, in over a year online, I can count the number of people who've asked for a refund on the fingers of one hand, and I've still got fingers left!

If you contribute $10 or more, you'll gain access to some cool bonus features (such as the ability to apply for awards), as well as my suite of "Secret Net Tools:"

The Rankulator lets you query several major search engines with the 7 permutations of 3 keywords, and tells you on what page your page appears. It also tells you the URLs of the best pages, so you can learn from the ranking masters.

The Multisubmitter lets you quickly and automatically submit multiple URLs (dozens if you want!) to all the major search engines, and gives you a nice email report of how well it did!

The Keyword Susser queries Overture.com's search terms tool and makes it easy to find out exactly what keywords you really want to be targeting on your pages and in your Meta Tags. I've also created a Search Terms Generator that can quickly generate large lists of search terms to bid on.

The Espionage tool lets you look at a web-page the way the search engines do. It's great for learning the tricks of getting better rankings.

The Link Finder queries search engines (currently, Altavista only) and tells you what sites are linked to your site.

The HTML PrettyPrinter shows you the logical structure of your pages, and helps diagnose those pesky table errors!

The View HTML tool is like your browser's view command, but it also shows you the HTTP headers.

The Keyword Diffuser is a seriously cool tool. You enter keywords that describe your site, and the Diffuser generates many different sets of META keywords tag, one for each of your pages. Each META tag has a different subset of your keywords in different orders; the idea is to maximize the chance that any particular query on a search engine will find one of your pages. It even has a macro processor to help you generate keyword phrases!

And finally, the License Pl8 Genr8tor is a fun little tool that will take just about any phrase and attempt to make a vanity license plate out of it!

In addition, contributors get access to a lot of little convenience features, such as the ability to display and select all the sites to promote to, a "check-all" javascript option, and automatic resubmission of their urls to the major search engines every 45 days. I'm always adding little features like these -- usually they get done because a contributor asked for them.

Convinced? Then scroll down a bit for instructions on how to become a contributor!

First, decide how much you want to pay. Here are my suggested contribution guidelines. Feel free to express your admiration by sending more. I won't complain! Type of site Suggestion Notes : Educational/Non-Profit $5-15 1: Steve, cough up the cash and everyone with an aol.com email address will get priority service. 2: Bill, if you pay up, only users of Internet Explorer will get to use the service! This could be the masterstroke that ensures your total domination of the Internet! And for a mere $5,000,000.00, how can you go wrong? 3: Larry, you always want to outdo Bill, and here's your chance. You're never going to have a better or cheaper opportunity to put the screws to him! And of course, if you do fork over the bucks, I'll set the site so that users of Internet Explorer can't use it. (Note: if Bill's already paid up, it'll cost you $20,000,000.00, as I'll have to give him his $5,000,000.00 back. So don't delay, pay today!) Personal $15-30 Commercial $25-75 More than 5 sites $10/site Steve Case of AOL $1,000,0001 Bill Gates $5,000,0002 Larry Ellison $10,000,0003

Once you've decided how much to pay, the next decision to make is how you want to pay.

Pay by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover. Click on the SECURE (encrypted) Form button to the right to transfer to a secure server where you can enter your credit card information. Security Note: Older browsers (in particular WebTV) have problems connecting to some secure sites. If you have problems connecting to the secure page, then you can either click the button to use the Regular (unencrypted) Form, call me at 1-910-397-0179 to do things over the phone, or you can fill out the Regular Form, print it out, and fax it to me at the same number (1-910-397-0179) as the answering machine has a fax machine built into it. If you prefer to pay by check, please make it payable to Robert Woodhead and include your SelfPromotion.com account name and email address on the comments line. The address to mail it to is: Robert Woodhead, 6810 Finian Drive, Wilmington, NC 28409 USA Email Address or :  SelfPromotion.com Account Name :  Contribution Amount :    PayPal is an online payment service. It lets you send money to anyone who has an email address, and you can use a credit card (or the money in your PayPal account) to pay for the transaction. They even let you beam money using a PalmPilot. You can also have them transfer any money in your account to your checking account. To send a contribution via PayPal, please use the form to the right. Since you're not logged into your SelfPromotion.com account, please enter either your SelfPromotion.com account name, or the email address associated with your SelfPromotion.com account, so I will be able figure out what account to credit. And the amount, of course. Then click on the Contribute button. If you don't have a PayPal account, you'll have the opportunity to create one. For your peace of mind, I am a PayPal Verified Member. PayPal accounts are now available to residents of an ever-growing list of countries, so even if you're not in the United States, you may be able to use it.

This site was developed on a Macintosh, programmed in WebSiphon, and served by WebStar. The author, on those exceedingly rare occasions when he does think, indeed thinks differently. It looks (and works) better when you use version 4.0 or better of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, but can be used with any tables-capable browser. SelfPromotion.com ©1997-2005 Robert Woodhead, All Rights Reserved. SelfPromotion.com™, Tooter™, Secret Net Tools™, MultiSubmitter™, Rankulator™, BaldSpotCam™, and ShareService™ are trademarks of Robert Woodhead. To get help, report bugs, or make suggestions, go here.