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After launching? Not to nit pick, but I'm pretty sure nearly all of these should be done before you launch.
Sifting through sixrevisions.com ... they have some fantastic shit. Good writing, sure, but GREAT topics-- and that's such a rarity.
A big* high-five to abraham for the submission.
*The kind that makes your hand sting. Because I love you, that's why.
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Regardless, this is a good list and contains a few things I ALWAYS forget to do (site-map & Google Webmaster tools).
After launching? Not to nit pick, but I'm pretty sure nearly all of these should be done before you launch.
Depends on what you are launching. A weekend project? Just get your work in front of people. Something you spent six months in stealth mode working on? Sure, get it all set up before launch during the development process.
There is only one thing on the list that is not completely obvious -- dmoz still matters. Is it possible? Sure, it's a valuable list of sites touched by a lot of care and bureaucracy, but does anybody who wasn't online 10 years ago know about it?
I can't imagine Google pays much attention to this anymore. Many of the categories have near absent editors and it can take over 6 months to be added.
Good Luck getting in.
A couple important things the article leaves out:
1) Create a cron script or otherwise automate sitemap creation. Otherwise, its easy to forget to manually add new pages.
2) Put a useful succinct meta description in the header of all your pages. Otherwise you leave the little blurb of text that shows up on google search results to chance and miss potential clicks on search results.
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I can't imagine Google pays much attention to this anymore. Many of the categories have near absent editors and it can take over 6 months to be added.
6 months? I've been waiting for 4 years in my category.
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