Promoting Your Web Site

Use free photo sharing sites like Flickr to promote your portfolio screen shots. If you post your screen shots there, and make them public, this puts them out to a lot of people and could get you some extra business.

Whether you're looking to get more fame or just more money from your website or blog, it can be challenging to move onwards and upwards. But sometimes it just takes one simple thing to get you started moving again. These ideas can help you improve your site, get more visitors, and get to the next level.

Robots often visit Web sites, and they can be beneficial to you or possibly harmful. Understanding how robots work and how they interact with your site can help you rank higher in search engines and get more pageviews.

It's easy to learn how to write a valid robots.txt file that search engine spiders will follow and clearly understand. This how to takes you through the steps

Some good suggestions for getting more hits, and the hidden costs to them all.

Six basic tips for getting people to come to your site and to keep them coming back.

Getting more page views is often the most important goal for web developers. But there is more to getting page views than posting your site on...

These sample robots.txt files will show you how to do various things with your robots.txt file. You can allow every robot everywhere or you can block specific directories, or just block specific robots. Learn how to write a robots.txt file by looking at some samples.

See other examples of robots.txt files from About.com readers and share your own robots.txt file.

Learn how to control the robots that visit your site.

A description of good and bad publicity opportunities for web designers to get word of their site out to the world. Find out about opportunities that are good and ones that are bad and how to tell the difference.

There are many ways to promote a website and get publicity. These are some examples from About.com readers of techniques that they have tried to get publicity and how it worked for them. You can read stories of things to avoid and share your own stories of the best and worst ways to get publicity and promotion for your website.