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Promote your GeoCities Home Page
Now that you've finished creating your GeoCities Home Page, you'll want to let everyone know where to find you on the Internet. Here are some links to services that will help you promote your Home Page to various newsgroups and search engines. Most of them require you to fill out a form with some basic information, and then they take care of the rest.
The first thing you should do is join GeoRewards and the Internet Link Exchange. In each of these programs, you create a banner that appears on other sites around the Web and acts as an advertisement for your home page. Get more information on each at our page explaining Banner Exchange Programs.
For some other ideas, see 10 Ways to Promote your Home Page, which was featured in the second edition of our newsletter.
After you've promoted your page, you're likely to get the recognition that you deserve. If you are ever written about in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, please let our news desk know, and look for your name in our GeoCitizen in the News section.
Note: GeoCities strongly discourages any violation of internet standards (Netiquette) for the purpose of promoting your home page, and "spamming" is a violation of our content guidelines. Please represent GeoCities well -- only publicize your site in appropriate newsgroups, listservs and bulletin boards. Let the free services listed here do the work for you.
- Help us bring the world to your GeoCities doorstep!
- Choose keywords for your site and we'll help Web surfers find you through all kinds of online directories. Just fill out this simple form.
- Submit-it
- Registers you with 15 Search Engines and Catalogs by completing one form. Includes submissions to Yahoo!, Lycos, Webcrawler, Infoseek, Alta Vista and more.
- WebAnnounce
- The WWW Artists Consortium brings you this site. It has links for submitting information to Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Search Engines, and Random Hot Lists.
- WebCom Guide
- This site gives you general information about publicizing your site, including places to register your page, sites that maintain "Cool Page of the Day/Week" lists, and even how to submit it through E-mail.
- Housernet
- You can submit your homepage to housernet for inclusion in their personal homepage directory. Housernet features a robust type search engine exclusevely for personal homepages. In addition, Housernet maintains many fun filled contests and games through which to promote your homepage.
- The Student Homepage Directory
- Any college student, high school student or teenager with their own homepage is encouraged to add a listing to The Student Center's Student Homepage Directory. It's the best way to give your student homepage greater exposure, and it's designed to make it easy to meet other students with similar interests.