Web Sites and Ezine Design and Hosting
Guide to Your Announcement
Use recommendations below to announce your Email broadcast. Experience shows that this method may generate some new subscriptions, but cannot be relied upon for all of your new subscribers.Your results will depend on the quality of your writing plus the attractiveness & distinctiveness of your subject. Be sure to review the guidance information at the bottom of the page before you actually undertake the listing process.
Search Engines
We recommend that you develop at least one page on your web site (or an entire web site) that introduces your newsletter, provides a link to a recent edition and a means to subscribe and cancel. Register the URL for your newsletter page and register it with Google and Yahoo, as if it were a web site. Example of a URL: http://yourdomain.com/newsletter.htmlGoogle
Use the Google site map to locate the site submission page. Skim the content in the Google web master's area to learn a bit about search engines and submissions.
Yahoo
Go to yahoo and type in 'newsletter' in the search area, and then choose the "Directory" tab. You should see dozens of interest categories to use in selecting a category to list your list. There is no generic newsletter section; Yahoo files newsletters under special interest categories.
This means that you register your newsletter with Yahoo in a similar way that you register your web site with them.
- Find the two Yahoo subject categories that your newsletter fits within. For example, your one of your categories might be:
Home : Computers and Internet : Hardware : Personal Computers : Windows : - Find the elusive, but detailed and instructive "Suggest a Site" guidance and follow it. Make sure that you identify your entry as a newsletter by including 'newsletter' in your page title.
Ezine Directories
To locate the current crop of newsletter directories (they constantly change) choose Google and search for "Email Ezine Directory". You will see thousands of directories which offer the possiblity of registering your newsletter.Basic Guidance and Example Announcement
As you go through the registration process, you will need some or all of the following facts to fill out the forms at the various registries:
- Our listserver System Software is "LetterRip" (check "other" if LetterRip is not listed among the options)
- Our listserver Address is requests@host.webvalence.com
{where host = letters, lists, zines, news} - Email Subscription instructions are: To subscribe, send Email to listname-on@host.webvalence.com. To unsubscribe send Email to listname-off@host.webvalence.com. (Remember to replace "listname" with the actual name of your list, e.g. "WebWisdom" and to furnish the appropriate host from the list above.)
- List owner: your name.
- List owner address: your usual Email address.
- List digest: this is not available.
You will normally be invited to provide a description of your broadcast list. This of this as a creative writing opportunity! We offer the following as one example that may be helpful.
The WebWisdom Ezine
Are you thinking of getting a web site -- or having one built for you? Wondering where to start? Or wondering how to update your present site?
If so, WebWisdom is an Email broadcast on web site design written especially for you, the site owner -- by the professional designers at WebValence. Twice a month, subscribers receive an e-newsletter with easy tips and sample links.
We won't bore you with tech-speak. We keep the words simple and let the links speak for themselves.
To subscribe send an Email to WebWisdom-on@myhost.webvalence.com.
To unsubscribe send an Email to WebWisdom-off@myhost.webvalence.comAssociated web site: www.webonrequest.com
List editor: Jonas Berkey <jonas@berkey.com>
You also might want to mention:
- List subscribers are completely confidential and will not be disclosed or used for any other broadcast lists.
- Our list is a voluntary opt-in list.
- The name of the list owner or editor. Make it personal!
