: Elizabeth Maria Cook <[log in to unmask]> writes:
: |>Well, I'm glas such sites have been created, but it seems like somebody
: |>needs to do a little PR for these pages, like getting them prominently
: |>listed on the Directories (like Yahoo.)  I thought Bart's idea was a good
: |>one, because I didn't know there were other sites, and I've done numerous
: |>seraches looking for museum sites.   When one

Since I opperate a virtual museum on the WWW, I am keen to the PR aspect
since no one could visit the site unless they knew it existed.
Consequently, I spent a lot of time looking for ways to announce the
museum's existance. It seems the best way to promote a web site is to
submit the URL to as many search services as possible. Yahoo and WWW
Virtual Library are only two of many such services. One helpful page is
called Submit-It (I think its http://www.submit-it.com) which provides a
friendly means of submiting URLs to many search services at one time.

From time to time, I have to remind myself that visibility on the web can
be a very illusory thing. You always feel like the whole world knows
about you, when in fact we often get lost amonst the millions of URLs. If
you want to get noticed, you need many links to your site.

I hope The Lost Museum of Sciences can be of some help in this respect. I
personally love museums enough to routinely hunt them down on the web and
feature them in exhibit halls (virtual exhibit halls that is). If I've
missed anyone, please let me know.

                                        Many Serendipities,
                                        Arthur
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