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Q: What is SiteSub?
A: SiteSub is a free software tool
designed to help webmasters more easily submit their websites
and blogs to directories.
Q: Why should I submit to website directories?
A: Website directories - and blog
directories - are a good way to build incomming links to your
site. Incomming links bring more traffic to your site or blog,
and help with offsite Search Engine Optimisation. In fact,
some SEO experts say that link building is the single most
important thing that a webmaster can do to improve their site's
rankings in the search engines.
Q: Is SiteSub an autosubmitter?
A: NO! SiteSub is absolutely not
an autosubmitter. Many website directory owners do not accept
submissions from autosubmitter programs, and will often ban
webmasters who use them from adding links to their directories.
Q: So how does SiteSub work?
A: Simple. SiteSub's window contains
edit boxes for you to type in information most commonly requested
by website directories. You enter your website's information
in these boxes, then visit some directories to add your URL.
Instead of retyping the information for each website directory,
you just click the copy button next to each field in SiteSub's
window. This cuts down the chances of errors creeping into
the URL adding process, and saves a surprising amount of time
too.
SiteSub can be made to stay on top of all other windows,
including your web browser, so the information you need is
always visible as you add your link to each website directory.
Q: Who can use SiteSub?
A: Anyone! SiteSub is freeware -
use it for personal, business or educational use, free of
charge. You can even make copies of the software to use of
different PCs.
Even better, SiteSub is a portable application - just copy
it on to a USB memory stick and take it with you so you can
add your link to website directories from any Windows PC.
Q: What is a portable application?
A: Portable applications are self-contained
programs that do not rely on lots of additional files, and
make little or no use of the Windows registry.
Because they don't need lots of DLLs or other files, or store
information in the registry, they can easily be copied onto
memory sticks and used on any Windows machine - hence the
name, portable application.
Q: Why is SiteSub free?
A: I wrote an early version of SiteSub
for my own use after spending many, many hours adding links
to website directories the hard way - by hand.
Recently, my wonderful Significant Other has become interested
in blogging, and has also found out the hard way that submitting
to blog directories by hand is a long, tedious, process.
I rewrote SiteSub for her, tidying it up, fixing a few bugs
and generally making it fit for wider use. I could hardly
charge my other half for the software, could I? :-) And, since
it existed, I figured I'd make it available to anyone else
who might find it useful - after all, I've been glad of many
freeware tools in the past. Time to give something back!
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