5/29/00

Today we'll cover how to promote you fed. There are amazingly many ways to properly advertise your fed. Search engines are good there are many Internet sites that have multiple submission to search engines, one of them being http://addme.com. You can also do a search for "free webpage tools" or "free site stuff"- and so on. Most of these searches have revealed many free multiple search engine submission links.

Adding META tags to the HEAD of your HTML script in specific ways can increase visits to your site. META tag generators can be found at http://draac.com and http://websitegarage.com, you can also do a search for them, they're everywhere. Some effective ways to sort your keywords in the META tags can be putting the main keywords five or six times on the main page of your site. Such as: If you have the words "efed, e-fed, e-wrestling" in your META tags you want to additionally put them five or six times in the content on the MAIN page of your e-fed.

As some of the seasoned fed promoters know, making your e-fed well known is a hard- almost impossible task if you aren't willing to work HARD daily. I cannot stress this enough- a well designed and maintained fed does most of the selling work itself! If you have a horrid site design or a thousand typos and big stupid images people will not even bother to look at your site. I am not just making this up, if your site loads slow with 100 UN-important images for you, how do you think potential members will feel? Now, I'm not saying your site has to look superb and have all the latest script trends but it MUST look neat atleast and maybe something to catch the visitor's attention. I think it's time to cover the Dirty tricks some fed promoters do.

Dirty tricks fed-heads use

That usually don't work…

• Using other people's characters:

This pissed me off when one day I was visiting E-feds around the web, I saw a person that I used to be in a fed with and I noticed a few familiar E-wrestling names. I went to his role-play board and low and behold there was my E-wrestler: HardKore- posting away with old role-plays I did months ago. He had about 5-6 other people doing the same thing. His fed didn't last to long after I UN-covered his scheme.

• Using members that don't exist:

The second thing that pisses me off is to see fed-heads make up totally bogus wrestlers and place them on the champs list and roster. I've seen this plenty of times. It shows more when there is NO action on the R-P board.

• Claiming to be the best:

It's fine (I guess) to advertise your feds on news groups such as RSPWF and ADWEF but I see this ALL the time. "Come JOIN MY FED APW, WE HAVE THE BEST CARD AND THE BEST DESIGN AND WE ARE SIMPLY THE BEST ON THE NET!!! Then, you visit and see a disaster area with more bad spellings then a one handed retard.

• Mass posting on newsgroups:

How many times have you seen a fed posted a millions times on newsgroups. It makes you want to visit just to see what the fuss is, luckily I got over that.

• Posting on other people's role-play boards:

I don't know why people do this (well, I do) but all it does is cause trouble for your fed. People see a link to your fed on their R-P board then they go bomb it with images and text until it takes forever to load or shuts your (WebTV) off. It irritates and screws up computers as well. Feds DO NOT want to see a link to some other fed on their board!

Proper ways to advertise a fed

• DO YOUR BEST AND WORK HARD, the work will always show for itself and get you members.
• Ask your friends, first, this is very effective.
• Post (moderately) on newsgroups.
• Ask other fed-heads to link your fed
• Join E-wrestling webrings, there's one I know of ( FWLnet.com or IWOonline.com.)
• Join TOP 100 or 1000 or whatever sites. If you can't get your members to click you to the top, spend a day or two doing it yourself!
• Put META tags on your HTML and join search engines.
• Never give up if you want to do it!
• Never stop learning, you'll never know everything there is to know.
• Keep up with other feds, don't steal ideas but don't lag behind with new ideas.

That about covers the basics. I wish you all good luck, later.