Imagine you are in the contracting industry; it’s not live on the World Wide Web yet but now what? How do you get to where you need to be in order to make sure your name is out there on the WWW and others can find you? How are you going to promote your website in order to make sure you get the leads you need? More importantly, is your website with MyIC.com? Did you know there is a company directly structured to help independent contractors be found quickly and easily online without the need of hard work from your end?

How are these people going to find out? Well for starters with MyIC.com you are given your own URL that you can give to anyone. Every stop to think about business cards, don’t worry, contractors can have business cards. Just because you sometimes get down and dirty with work does not mean you are not entitled to your own business card, promoting exactly that – your business! It is a great way to drop a note in a box or accidentally leave it behind when you are dinning out for a luncheon.

Do you visit web forums online in your spare time? What about making sure that trusty MyIC.com URL is listed within your signature? Every post you make on a website setup with your sig. link is a free way to send possible clients right back to your website. What about that site you made again, you have content on there, right? What about search engine friendly content? The big SE’s like Google and Yahoo! are not going to find you without content to sift through. Have you given your website a sitemap that can guide all links throughout your website to the proper area, using targeted keywords?

Directories are another great way to go, many allow you to use free submissions in order to make sure your site is found online quicker and easier to get you the traffic you need. Do you tweet on Twitter, another great (free) site that lets you tie your business back into your website from their own? Social sites are another free (monetary) way to provide information online for search engines to find. What about making a business blog?

If you send out any literature to your past clients or even for flyers that you mail out, include that website URL so others can find you. It may not all be free, but if you can snag a deal with a local company to add in extra text in your ad that you already run, that add-on is free. Do you email? Of course you do, everyone emails even a little bit. That same signature used in those web communities you can also add into your email so with each email sent your website is listed that others can find. You read the paper right? What about online classifieds? With such a simple way to start out even these top ten ways can help get a new site off the ground in no time.