AUTOMATED PROMOTION
A starting point for your online promotion

For a one-off fee of just £49 + VAT, The Dedicated Partnership will submit your URL to over 20,000 search engines, directories, and other sites. This is a basic, automated service and, it must be emphasised, should not be relied upon for your entire online marketing. For more effective results you need to consider manual submissions.

Below are a few frequently asked questions about the automated promotion service:


Q. How come it's so cheap? Surely it takes days - if not weeks or months - to submit your Web site to so many different resources!

A. It would do if you were performing the submissions manually. The reason that automated submissions are so inexpensive is that they are performed by software which fires off the submissions once we've inputted some initial, general data about the site being promoted.


Q. What are the advantages/disadvantages of automated promotion?

A. The main advantage is that it can act as a useful starting point for some initial traffic for someone that has just joined the Web. It is very important that you are aware of the disadvantages and limitations of the service, though. 20,000+ submissions doesn't mean you'll necessarily appear on 20,000+ Web sites. On the contrary - some of the sites receiving the submission might be unavailable or inappropriate, and some might link to you for a limited period of time only. Also many of sites are what are known as FFA sites ('free for all') and tend to deliver relatively few visitors.

Q. OK... so where might my site be submitted to?

A. Here, there and everywhere! Such sites as: 100 HOT WEB SITES, 1STOP BIZ DIRECTORY, 2HaveFun FFA Links, 4u2 German FFA, 5 STAR ADS FFA INDEX, A Kid's World Links, A STREET FFA LINKS, AAA BIZOP's Best 4All Links, AAA Directory, AAA1 Biz Directory, Aaron's FFA Links, AAtlas Internet Directory, Aavalance FFA, Ableads Newlinks, Ace Internet Directory, Acgom FFA Links, ADAMS FFA LINKS, Add It Free, Add It Web Links, AddaSite Links, AddUrlsCom, AddWeb Search, ADM City Links, Admatic Classified Directory, AdNet's FFA Hot-Links, Adobe Trading Post, ADS Enterprises FFA Links... and the list goes on (and on).

Q. For a one-off fee of £49 + VAT, that can't be bad! What do I do now?

A. Write a cheque for £57.58 (£49 + VAT) made payable to The Dedicated Partnership. Post it to us at the address below, along with a piece of paper providing the following information:

Q. How will I know when the submissions have been carried out?

A. Upon completion, we will send you a report with detailed information about the submissions. Please allow up to eight weeks for some engines and directories to display your records. Please note that 'a submission' is quite different to 'an addition' - many sites might not add you at all!

Q. Will this mean that I'll now get thousands of visitors to my site every week?

A. Alas, no. What it will provide you with, though, is some initial links on which you can (and must!) build further. High levels of Web site traffic rarely come overnight - it usually requires many hours of hard work and a great deal of patience.

If you would like The Dedicated Partnership to take your online marketing a step further, please look at our page on manual submissions. Its manual promotion, not automated promotion, that will bring you better, long-term results.

The Dedicated Partnership Ltd.
Maude Street, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4QD - England, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1539 736677
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