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All right. I’m going to assume you have followed the instructions in that first article. Next we need to prepare the information we are going to list at all those places where we will list or promote our web site. Since I have a number of sites, I start a page like this for each one. I’ll be using my BE (BouquetofEnterprises.biz) site as an example here. Replace that info with what applies to your site.

At the top of this BE-Submissions.txt file, I prepare my answers for the forms I will encounter;

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NEW PROMO OF BOUQUETOFENTERPRISES.BIZ

My information is as follows;
URL: http://bouquetofenterprises.biz
Title - Bouquet of Enterprises
email - [left out here to protect my address]
Address: 903 23rd St. West.
Saskatoon, SK. S7L 0A5 Canada
Phone: 306-956-7785

Description - Small business ideas with imagination, creativity and God’s blessing. Also offering economical hosting and web design with blogs that giveencouragement and show action steps for your online ventures, remembering to keep God involved.

Keywords - small business ideas, imagination, creativity, publishing goals, giver, God involved in business ventures, high ethical standards,

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Below that I have a section where I paste the URL of the sites I’ve just listed at. This gives me a quick-at-a-glance place to see how many I’ve done and exactly which ones.

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Sites I’ve listed at:
http://www.botcw.com/add_your_site.html
http://4hurtingchristians.com/links_directory/index.php
http://www.christiansunite.com/addsite.shtml
http://directory.crosswalk.com/join/
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Below that list I keep a record of every place where I have entered info about my site. I copy paste from the above prepared info at the top of the page, and while each line is still in my computer’s clipboard memory, I paste it down here too.

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11/30/06 http://directory.crosswalk.com/join/
Contact: Ruth Marlene Friesen
Company name: Bouquet of Enterprises
Phone: 306-225-2138
Address: Box 208, Hague, SK. S0K 1X0 Canada
site URL: http://bouquetofenterprises.biz/
site Title: Bouquet of Enterprises
email: [removed from eg. to protect my email]
Category: Web Services and Computers/ Christian WWW Services
Web Services and Computers/Web logs - Blogs

Description: Small business ideas with imagination, creativity and God’s blessing, offering economical hosting and web design, with blogs that give encouragement and show action steps for your Christian online ventures.

reciprocal links; (did both already on R/Networking.shtml)
HTML CODE:
Crosswalk Directory:
Over 18,000 wholesome, family friendly, Christian websites.

BUTTON:
1. Right click on the image below
2. Select “Save picture as” and/or save the image to your computer
3. Place the image on your website and have it link to http://crosswalkdirectory.com

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Notice that in this case I was also asked to choose a category for my site. I recorded that in case I ever have to go back and edit or re-do this listing. (Sometimes you have to hunt around their site a bit to find the best category for your listing, and sometimes you are allowed more than one category).

Notice too, that this directory site, asked for a recriprocal link. I always stop to ask myself, do I really want to offer a link from my site to this one? If yes, then I record the info they provide for the link, so that if I lose it from my web page, I can come back to find it here.

It’s perfectly permissible to make extra notes on your listing. No matter how great your memory is, with lots and lots of submissions they will begin to run together in your head, and as you age, in a year or two, you’ll be very glad of your notes!

But when you’ve entered everything you can for one directory or reciprocal listing, draw a line, and start your next one.

So you’re eager to know where to find all these sites that allow you to list your site for free?

Okay. I’ll give you a starter list, but be aware that some of these sites disappear sometimes, or they change the URL at which you are to list your data, so you may have to hunt around for it a bit. Look for small links to “Add a URL” or “Suggest a site” or “submit site.” Things like that. Be sure to highlight, copy and paste the exact URL on which you do your listing, so that you’ll find it again next time. You’ll be grateful one day!

Here’s my Places2List file;

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Here are lists of directories and Search engines to list at. I recommend you only list at those which offer a free service. Save the paid ones for when you have exhausted all the free ones and know how to get the best milage out of that paid listing.

While we seek out the best sites to list at, eventually we end up listing at some that have no integrity, and our email address will be mis-used. So prepare a separate email addres that you will use ONLY for submitting to directories and SEs. This is crucial! But sometimes sites will not list you until you respond to their confirmation email, so it is important to go check for those you have to respond to. Don’t totally ignore that email address.

It’s always a good idea to check out their directories in the categories where you think you’ll list. It may turn out they have a better category for your site. When you’ve found that, list from that page.

www.dmoz.org/add.html
www.lii.org/
www.jayde.com/
www.mavicanet.com/
google.com of course, (but they’ll give you a better rating if you’re listed on other sites first).

Christian Directories:
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Suggested directories to list at:
www.ourchurch.com/
directory.crosswalk.com/
christianportals.com/
www.crosssearch.com/
www.searchenginecolossus.com/Christian.html
www.christpages.net/
711.net/
www.agapesearch.com/
www.cbd-search.com/
www.lightlinks2000.com/litelink.htm
http://www.praize.com/
on this page Praize has a directory of 74 Christian Directories! Explore them!

http://www.praize.com/engine/Internet_Gateways/Directories/index.html

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These are links I saved after listing books on them. They might be changed, but you could check them out. In this case, you ought to write up a set of answers as I’ve done in the example for the site, but focus the answers on details about your e-book. Then make entries specifically for that book at sites like these below. Or use as springboards to hunt for the right category for your site or products.

Don’t forget to do online searches yourself for sites that have “submit site” or “suggest URL” Build up your own database of places to list at.
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ http://www.booksxyz.com/nonsale.php?a=1&book=
http://www.religiousresources.org/directory/submit.php?cat_id=64
http://www.missionaries.org/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.fni.com/xstart/newsite.html
http://links.conline.net/cgi-bin/add.cgi?
http://www.christianitytoday.com/search/index.taf?_UserReference=079827BB0484FC433D89F288&_function=add
http://www.christianlife.com/cgi-bin/add_url.cgi
http://www.ichristianweb.com/posting.php?category_id=13
http://www.ccunetwork.net/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.chritech.com/cgi-bin/search/add_url.cgi?Category=Publishing%3ABooks
http://www.zuzu.com/sub-st.htm
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
http://www.homewithgod.com/cgi-homewithgod/links/add.cgi
http://www.praize.com/engine/index.html
http://www.xenite.org/internet_authors/announcebooks.html
http://actschristian.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.christianlinks.com/AddURL.asp
http://www.crosscanadasearch.com/cgi/links/add.cgi
http://search.711.net/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.tbcl.com/cgi-bin/search/add_url.cgi
http://actschristian.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.missionaries.org/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://search.711.net/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.robslinks.com/addok.shtml

SEARCH ENGINES (found in W.E.B. 1/25/06)
There’s a new search engine to submit to. (If you submit more than one domain, force a reload in order to view the new security graphic letters.) http://navisso.com/add

Last September, Yahoo launched Site Explorer, allowing you to enter an URL and get information about it, including number of pages in that domain, and links to that page:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Learn how to optimize your website and increase visitors: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php
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There! That will keep you busy for a while. I’ll try next time to have some more suggestions for you.