You have been hearing a lot about optimizing the website for search engines ,ever thought if there is any alternative.There are billions of webpages, static and dynamic.So how will you find the information you want, or from webmasters perspective how will you take it to your customers.

Here we discuss about search engine and alternatives for website promotion. The clout of search engine is that on an average 70-80% of traffic to any website is refered from a search engine. Of this Google alone have 65% share making it the leader of searching technololgy and of course google fully understands leadership entrusted with it. It always strives in improving search technology, in which so far it has been successfull, that's why it is still occupying the top slot in internet searching.That means to some extend google makes the rules and others follows the suite.

dmoz the open source directory serves the data requirement of most major search engines including Altavista, Lycos, A9, MSN, AOL, Teoma, Clusty Wisenut, Gigablast and Yahoo, which means if you are getting listed at dmoz you automatically get listed in these listed search engines.

The following forms of online advertising is suggested as an alternative methodology for link popularity. They are banner ads, text ads, links, classifieds, link exchange, banner exchange,directory placement. In most cases this will also ensure your search engine ranking as you are creating your own web of cross links in the internet space.

There are many sites Like vivarem.com that offers free advertising in multiple section like classifieds,links, directories, banners etc.with limited budget for website promotion you may opt for them.

In spite of good graphics and layout if your site does'nt have enough text context making it readable means you will decrease your popularity amoung your audience and search engines. Good content is as important, if not more important in bringing 'loyality hits'.In long run loyality hits are the most that matters, than new hits.

In conclusions search engine may place you in front of customers or information seekers but If it should make a difference your site should be well designed, with good content, graphics, be well net worked with good links in as many sites as possible,Go for paid or free advertising as your budget fits and last but not the least point to remember have good hosting solution so that none of visitors go back without viewing your web site.

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