How To Publicize Your Web Pages

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Creating Web Pages--Faculty

Publicizing Your Web Page

While creating your Web page, you may have looked for relevant sites to link. Now that you have your page ready, others may want to link to it. How will they know your page exists?

There are many different places and ways to announce your Web pages. The steps below explain how to build a path to your web pages--with minimal effort or cost.

1. Double-check your web pages and make sure they are ready to publish. Do they present the image and information you want them to present? Do they adhere to Haverford's rules and guidelines? Once you are satisfied with your pages, think about publishing them on the web the same way you think about sending paper documents to the copy center. While you might wish you had more time to work on the layout or text before copying a document, you would not send it to the printer without checking for basic spelling and accuracy.
   
2. Link from your department's home page. Your department should have one person responsible for maintaining its home page. Contact that person when you have pages you wish to link from your department's home page.
   
3. If you would like to have your page linked from a particular site, such as the Academic Departments page on the Haverford web server, email the page owner with your request. (You can generally find the site owner's contact information somewhere on the site.) Include your URL and the link name you would like them use. While it is up to the site owner to decide whether they wish to reference your page, and how they wish to do so, often people will honor your request.
   
4. Announce your pages to those who created pages to which you have linked. Those who created the pages you linked to your pages may be interested in the work you did. Send an email thanking them for their page, and telling them you linked to them; if you include the address for your pages they may very well reciprocate and link back to your pages.
   
5. Want more publicity? EHow, a web community providing how-to tips for a wide range of topics, has additional instructions on How to Publicize Your Web Site.