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# Promoting D Projects (or Internet Marketing 101)

So you've written a cool project in D, and it's ready for others to use or to get involved with helping develop it further. Just posting a zip file isn't going to work. All your blood, sweat and effort will just go to waste. You'll need to provide a way for people who want to know about your project to be able to find it.

The steps are:

1. Create a web page for the project
2. Let people know about it

### Creating a Web Page

A good web page should include the following:

- The keywords and phrases that someone who would be interested in your project might type into Google to find it.
- The phrase D programming language somewhere on the page. This helps build the brand on the internet. If you just use D, nobody will find it via search.
- Screen shots of the program. Even better, for graphics and game demos, make a short video of it with Windows Movie Maker, which can capture movies directly from the screen.
- List the capabilities of the package and what it's good for.
- Identify who this package is intended for and why they'd want to use it.
- Copyright and license information for any source code. If you intend for it to be public domain, make sure to explicitly mark it so.

### Promoting the Project

Submit the page or article to the following:

- digitalmars.D.announce newsgroup
- Google web crawler
- Google code search for source code zips
- dzone developer news
- beta marker for releases, including betas
- Digg under the Developer category
- Slashdot news for nerds
- gamedev.net anything game related
- Artima Developer developer articles
- download.com software downloads
- Wikipedia if it genuinely adds to an article on the subject
- comp.programming newsgroup

Send me a cut-and-paste html snippet to place on dlinks.

If your project is a conversion of an existing project to D, email the project leader of that existing project and suggest that he incorporate a link to your project on his page.

For the absolutely most effective results, submit articles to:

- Dr. Dobb's Journal
- SDWest
- OOPSLA

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