Supporting the Site

I greatly appreciate your decision to support SelfPromotion.com. If you haven't completely made up your mind, read on; otherwise you can skip to the form at the bottom of the page.

Account Name: Password: (Or click here to Create New Account) First time here? Before you begin, you might want to read the Tutorial. There is also a comprehensive Help & FAQ page available. Forgot your account name or password? Click here to cure your amnesia! To give you a taste of how cool the Secret Net Tools are (you have to contribute to get access to all of them), I've enabled your access to several of the simpler ones. Enjoy! PrettyPrint Are You Listed? License Pl8 Genr8tor Google (my favorite search engine) Getting Started: Welcome (Home Page) Site Help Site FAQ Site Map List of Sites Create New Account Tutorials: (read in this order) Preparing your Pages for the Search Engines Using Tooter to submit your site Getting listed in Yahoo (and the other big indexes) Paying for Traffic Improving your Search Engine Rankings How to (not) win Awards Articles: Trends in Submission Virtual Vexation The 500 Sites Fallacy Page 1 Paranoia Clickthrough Conundrums SpamSpamSpam The Gullibility Virus A Marketing Course that Works?! Accepting Credit Cards Online Links of Interest Glossary of Useful Terms Random Nonsense Woodhead's Law Cool Domain Names Why I let you decide how much to pay Moral obligations? Be Supportive! Add your Award or Index Make Money Slow! (by linking to me) Suggestion Box Advertising & Sponsorship About the Site: How it works Promotion Monitor Our Awards Best User Sites User Comments Believe it or not, 11.13% of the people who use SelfPromotion.com support the site!

Benefits of Contributing

First, since I absolutely refuse to have dissatisfied users, SelfPromotion.com comes with a 100% unconditional unlimited no-risk satisfaction-assured no-matter-what no-matter-when money-back guarantee. If at any time, for any reason, you come to feel that your subscription to the site isn't worth what you contributed, even if you've only got 10 minutes left before your year's subscription is up, just let me know why you're unhappy (so I can fix it!) and I'll give you a complete refund. And by the way, in over a year online, I can count the number of people who've asked for a refund on the fingers of one hand, and I've still got fingers left!

If you contribute $10 or more, you'll gain access to some cool bonus features (such as the ability to apply for awards), as well as my suite of "Secret Net Tools:"

The Rankulator lets you query several major search engines with the 7 permutations of 3 keywords, and tells you on what page your page appears. It also tells you the URLs of the best pages, so you can learn from the ranking masters.

The Multisubmitter lets you quickly and automatically submit multiple URLs (dozens if you want!) to all the major search engines, and gives you a nice email report of how well it did!

If you decide to try pay-per-click ads, the Search Terms Generator can quickly generate large lists of search terms to bid on.

The Espionage tool lets you look at a web-page the way the search engines do. It's great for learning the tricks of getting better rankings.

The Link Finder queries search engines (currently, Altavista only) and tells you what sites are linked to your site.

The HTML PrettyPrinter shows you the logical structure of your pages, and helps diagnose those pesky table errors!

The View HTML tool is like your browser's view command, but it also shows you the HTTP headers.

The Keyword Diffuser is a seriously cool tool. You enter keywords that describe your site, and the Diffuser generates many different sets of META keywords tag, one for each of your pages. Each META tag has a different subset of your keywords in different orders; the idea is to maximize the chance that any particular query on a search engine will find one of your pages. It even has a macro processor to help you generate keyword phrases!

And finally, the License Pl8 Genr8tor is a fun little tool that will take just about any phrase and attempt to make a vanity license plate out of it!

In addition, contributors get access to a lot of little convenience features, such as the ability to display and select all the sites to promote to, a "check-all" javascript option, and automatic resubmission of their urls to the major search engines every 45 days. I'm always adding little features like these -- usually they get done because a contributor asked for them.

Convinced? Scroll down for the contribution methods...

First, decide how much you want to pay. Here are my suggested contribution guidelines. Feel free to express your admiration by sending more. I won't complain! Type of site Suggestion Notes : Educational/Non-Profit $5-15 1: Steve, cough up the cash and everyone with an aol.com email address will get priority service. 2: Bill, if you pay up, only users of Internet Explorer will get to use the service! This could be the masterstroke that ensures your total domination of the Internet! And for a mere $5,000,000.00, how can you go wrong? 3: Larry, you always want to outdo Bill, and here's your chance. You're never going to have a better or cheaper opportunity to put the screws to him! And of course, if you do fork over the bucks, I'll set the site so that users of Internet Explorer can't use it. (Note: if Bill's already paid up, it'll cost you $20,000,000.00, as I'll have to give him his $5,000,000.00 back. So don't delay, pay today!) PS: These jokes should give you an idea of how long I've been running this site! Personal $15-30 Commercial $25-75 More than 5 sites $10/site Steve Case of AOL $1,000,0001 Bill Gates $5,000,0002 Larry Ellison $10,000,0003

Once you've decided how much to pay, the next decision to make is how you want to pay.

Pay using any major credit card or PayPal. I use PayPal as my credit card processor, but you do not need a PayPal account in order to pay this way, just a credit card. You can also use an existing PayPal account if you want. Just click the Donate button to the right; you'll be able to enter the amount and your payment information on PayPal's secured site. Since you're not logged into your SelfPromotion.com account, please enter either your SelfPromotion.com account name, or the email address associated with your SelfPromotion.com account, so I will be able figure out what account to credit. Then click on the Donate button. Once the payment is processed, PayPal will send me an email, and I'll credit your account, typically within a few hours. For your peace of mind, I am a PayPal Verified Member. PS: I just updated this page to use PayPal's latest payment interface, so if you have any problems using it, or suggestions on how to make it easier, please don't hesitate to email me. There'll be an email link on the page PayPal returns you to. Thanks! Please enter your Email Address or SelfPromotion.com Account Name If you prefer to pay by check, please make it payable to Robert Woodhead and include your SelfPromotion.com account name and email address on the comments line. The address to mail it to is: Robert Woodhead, 6810 Finian Drive, Wilmington, NC 28409 USA

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