How to publicize your online E-zine

Once you have created a webzine, how do you get the word out? This brief guide offers some strategies to allow the world to readers of your work.

* Announce your E-ZINE *

Once you have your e-zine and webzine on the spot visit yahoo.com, google.com and msn.com and add your URL (if you have a lot of pages, it is wise to not submit more than five URLS per day). Don't pay for the services that promise to submit your site to hundreds of engines. This does not affect your traffic, just hit the large ones. For a primer on how to work the various engines, visit SearchEngineWatch.com. It offers a free newsletter that comes into tons of detail on how the working engines. Each time you make a significant change to your site or add new pages, submit or resubmit the URLs.

The next step is to enter the URL ' in the root directory online. You can save a lot of time if you prepare enticing 25-word, 50-word descriptions of 100 first word. " If you can explain your zine in one sentence you have a fighting chance ", says George Myers Jr. to LitKit. A description of a single sentence can help focus on the audience that you're after, and it helps when you are deciding where to enter your e-zine in directory. The beginning is the largest directory, followed by Open Directory. A good guide for smaller engines is directorylist.org.

Yahoo seems to prefer sites that have your own domain name; also in this case you may need to submit multiple times before being listed. Don't do it more than once every two weeks, and chose with care your category (suggest a second category if applies, but don't get greedy). Send your webzine under specific topics, such as travel or Humor or whatever describe better its contents. Yahoo! does not accept the ' free dispatch for trade categories, however, requires a $ 299 annual fee.

Finally, promoting your e-zine with ' sending communications to various services that boaters attentive to new sites. Send a notice of ALT. ezines Usenet group. If you do a non-commercial paper or electronic zine, post a notice on alt. zines. Announces new webzine on trade not comp. infosystems. www.announce, or any-zine at bookmarkz.com.

You can also add zine ezine directory to many, but most do not produce much traffic. If you have the time and patience, start with our list of free zine directory at http://www.zinebook.com and look for the " category " lists. It includes directories that zines list of specialties such as literary zines, fan fiction, indie music and titles by a single word.

business groups, however, requires a $ 299 annual fee.

Finally, promoting your e-zine with ' sending communications to various services that boaters attentive to new sites. Send a notice of ALT. ezines Usenet group. If you do a non-commercial paper or electronic zine, post a notice on alt. zines. Announces new webzine on trade not comp. infosystems. www.announce, or any-zine at bookmarkz.com.

You can also add zine ezine directory to many, but most do not produce much traffic. If you have the time and patience, start with our list of free zine directory at http://www.zinebook.com and look for the " category " lists. It includes directories that zines list of specialties such as literary zines, fan fiction, indie music and titles by a single word.

* AS returning visitors *

Some zine editor include a registration form in their page where visitors can leave their email addresses. This allows the ' editor to compile a mailing list of people who are interested in the contents of the zine, and he or she may send notice when the webzine has been updated. However, by submitting your zine unsolicited ASCII text via email to an entire group of people is a bad idea. You can participate in a service that will automatically notify visitors who sign up when you refresh the page. More information on http://www.changedetection.com.

* SHARING OF WEALTH *

Some zines and carry advertisements, usually in the form of an Exchange banner. You can organize banner exchanges with local zine publishers alike, or participate in a service like LinkExchange. Usually for each banner is displayed for you to another site, you get a credit means with the service. Each credit means that your banner is displayed on another website. The ' services offer banner exchange are increasingly sophisticated targeted where ads are placed. You might also consider joining a Web Ring. For more information, visit the Webring home page at http://www.webring.org.