1. Get your own discussion forum, information request form, guest book.
2. Put your URL in your e-mail signature file. That way every message you send - to anyone - reminds people where you live on the Web.
3. Register your site with search engines. It doesn't take long, and most Web-browsers do use one - Yahoo, Lycos, Info Seek, Excite and AltaVista, and there are dozens of smaller ones - as a jumping-off point.
4. Put your URL on your resume. Don't you think your potential employers will be impressed if they see what you've created online?
5. Send your URL to your local newspaper's technology editor. Many newspapers regularly review, mention or feature unique or topical websites in their tech or business sections. But they can't mention yours if they don't know about it.
6. Write a letter to the editor of your favorite magazine, and sign the letter with your name and URL. Magazines often print the e-mail addresses of people who write in electronically, so why should a URL be any different?
7. Visit other pages in your neighborhood and sign their guest book. Your neighbors would love to hear from you, and they'll quite likely reciprocate. Be sure to leave your URL so they know where to find you.
8. Join a "web ring." These rings, which link people who visit a site to the next person in a circle of members, are popping up everywhere. Next time you see one on a neighbor's page, e-mail him/her and ask how to get involved.
9. When you're in a newsgroup, listserv or chat room, mention your address - but only if it's appropriate to the setting. The soft-sell approach is key here, because if you barge into an online community and start plastering your URL everywhere, you'll make plenty of enemies and do yourself absolutely no good. If you've created a great site about Yorkshire Terriers, it's fine to mention it in a dog-lovers' list.
10. Tell your mother/father/sisters/brothers/kids to tell everyone they know to visit your site.
