This last week I’ve been working on a bit of promotion for the website, but not down what you might consider traditional advertising of clicking through.

Come close, make sure no-one else is listening, are we safe to carry on?  This is something that I read to do, but technically you don’t do it under your own name.  How about a Wikipedia listing?  This doesn’t unfortunately help with page rankings on search engines; it does though give you a bit more coverage if people search for your company name.

A word to the wise, when you create a Wiki account it has a manual of how to create a submission, do read it, don’t start to read it think, I use WordPress or other such sites I’ll be ok and stop reading it half way through to save you time.  Hmm, I tell you this as a top tip, as I was that person that half read the instructions, thought I’d be able to figure it out and got well and truly stuck on the coding.  I haven’t had time to go back and finish it yet, but I will try and get it figured out by the time you are reading this.

To make the page official and be listed by the site, you need to have a point of reference, a link people can click on that takes you to an independent website to validate your page.  I have put a link to my about page and used some of the text from it, and its here where I got stuck; adding in the reference point list.

Another thing that I’m starting to create is a channel on Youtube.  It was something that came up in our last mastermind call; a colleague is creating one for her travel business to promote her tours.   A light bulb went on and I suddenly saw how I could have a presence, even if not in the most traditional sense of a video.  It’s a site I’m eventually going to use when I do short promotional videos of my photography courses, yet I suddenly thought what is to stop me having a slide show of different styles of my photographs? Read More→