Hello,

I do think for now a very big result, but still some visitors gathered to site an IM is a choice.

When launching a website you can quickly attract attention of at least your friends by:
- PM-ing them (somehow not the best idea, may be seen as a "spam") with a short descriptive text and link to website
- just add URL and a very short text to YM status

This is an excellent idea that I never really thought of! Because you are only sending IMs to approved "friends", it will not be considered spam (well at least not to your face )

That is actually an incentive to build up one's IM contact list up. Are there any technical draw-backs to using Yahoo or other IM service for this purpose?

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Yes that works. Works well actually.

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PMing isn't too affective unless they have instant email notification enabled.

Putting your URL(s) in your forum and email signatures is a good idea though.

As far as adding your URL to an instant message, I see that as spam and just ignore it.

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most people will just ignore an IM saying "hey come and look at my site! www.example.com"

*wonders what is actually at www.example.com...*

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Actually i am not proposing to spam anyone. Just to spread through my IM list.

Also message sent should be relevant to topic, not just saying: "watch the site x". Rather for a video site: come and watch most funnies video ...........