Back in the day (early to mid 1990s) when the Computer Man Website Design and Promotion Team created their first website, website promotion was a breeze compared to 21st century methods and requirements. The webmaster had only to insert the proper tags, submit the URL to a few search engines like Yahoo! (do you Yahoo!?) and Alta Vista every few weeks, and set back and wait… and wait… and wait.
Perhaps the biggest challenge was to keep your ISP from cutting you off before your site was completely uploaded. It was not uncommon to have to post your website in parts spurring the development of various software programs to talk to your ISP in the background on a regular and frequent basis in an effort to maintain your “unlimited” internet connection at 28800 bps or 33600 bps. Can you say, s…l…o…w ?
After that little exercise in frustration was completed, our experience showed the best and fastest way to begin to attract traffic was to create and join Web Rings. Web rings are not as important or prolific today because they are not as necessary. With the current crop of tools and html editors, any one can create and post a basic...