Some useful Hints & Tips about launching and marketing your website.

Before launching your web site, make sure you add what is known as "Meta Tags" or search terms to your web site pages. This goes in the code of the template. The person or company you choose to customise your templates can place these for you, but you will need to provide them with the text. The following article might be useful: How to Use Meta Tags In Search Engine Promotion

Once you have uploaded your website you need to market the launch.

1) Submit your web site to key search engines such as google, MSN and Yahoo. If you want to get onto google, register your web site at dmoz.org More advice on search engine placement can be found at http://searchenginewatch.com
2) Create a press release for your launch and send out to all your contacts and local newspapers.
3) Let all your fans know - set up a newsletter registration facility, if you do not already have one.
4) Register a myspace profile and advertise your web site on your space and new friends
Get chatting inas many suitable forums as possible. Make sure you place a link to your web site, as this will move you up in the search engines.
6) Ask others who have web sites if they would add a link to your web site on theirs and vice-versa (reciprocal linking)
7) Advertise your web site on all your marketing materials, leaflets etc

Recommended!! Create a regular newsletter, allow fans to sign up to your mailing list:-