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Search
Engine Submission Tips>
Before you start the process of submitting your web
site to all the major search engines, make sure that
you have optimized your web pages and checked your site
thoroughly. Initial Concepts Technologies "Steps
to Creating a Web Site" should give you a good
start. more details..
Major Search Engines>
In this section we have made a list of all the major
search engines which will drive approximately 80% of
visitor traffic to your site. These are the search engines
that you need to focus on getting listed in. We have
given tips on submitting to these search engines and
have provided links to their 'Add URL' pages. All you
have to do is read our tips, click on our links and
submit your site to the top search engines. It's that
simple. For more information about promoting your web
site have a look at our web
promotion guide page.
AltaVista
usually adds a page within a few days. It's best to submit
only a few URLs per day to them, even though they appear
to accept as many as you try to feed them. For whatever
reason, they just don't seem to index them as quickly
if you give them a lot at once. All you need to do is
submit your URL.
Submit
to Altavista here
Google is one of our personal favorites. It makes heavy
use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites.
This can be especially helpful in finding good sites in
response to general searches such as "cars"
and "travel," because users across the web have
in essence voted for good sites by linking to them. The
system works so well that Google has gained widespread
praise for its high relevancy. Google also provides some
results to Yahoo and Netscape Search. Submit only your
homepage URL. It will automatically index the entire site.
Submit
to Google here
Excite claims it takes about two weeks to add a submitted
URL to its index. Sometimes, but not always. You'll need
to be very persistent with them. But take the time to
do it, Excite is the primary search service for the new
giant AOL/Netscape.
Submit
to Excite here
Its main listings come from the Open Directory project,
and then secondary results come from either Direct Hit
or Lycos' own spider. Just follow their simple instructions
and don't expect immediate results from your submission.
Again, your best bet is to get indexed in the Open Directory
project.
Submit
to Lycos here
AUSFIND is a directory of Australian
web sites. You must have an Australian site or provide
services or products specifically for Australia to be
listed on our directory.
Submit
to Ausfind here
The Yahoo! Directory is organised
by subject. Most sites in it are suggested to us by users.
Sites are placed in categories by Yahoo! Editors, who
visit and evaluate your suggestions and decide where they
best belong. We do this to ensure that Yahoo! is organised
in the best possible way, making the Directory easy to
use, intuitive, helpful, and fair to everyone.
Submit
to Yahoo here
Top
10 Tips To Effective Search Engine
Submission And Promotion>
 
Meta tags
The first and most important step is to create
relevant meta tags after studying your competition and
coming up with the most important keywords for you site.
All the pages in your web site must have the relevant
keywords, title and description.
Keywords in your Content
The keywords used in your meta tags should be repeated
in your content - specially in the heading and the first
paragraph.
Alt Tags
Put your keywords in the image alt tags. Some search engines
index the alt tags.
The golden rule for effective search engine submission
is that all your important keywords should appear in your
title, description, content and alt tags of your web page.
This increases your keyword density and helps in boosting
your ranking with the search engines.
Create Doorway Pages
Create doorway pages for your most important keywords.
These keyword specific pages will rank higher in the search
engines and can be used as a doorway to your site.
Site Readiness
Directory submissions are reviewed by people, so make
sure your site is 100% complete before submitting it.
No special Symbols in your URL
Don't put any special symbols in your URL (e.g. &,
%,=, $ ,? ). Search engines cannot recognize these symbols.
Don't Spam
Try to stay in the search engines' good books by not spamming.
Spamming includes excessive keyword repetition, machine
generated doorway pages with little or no content and
pages that contain invisible text.
Submit to the Major Search Engines and Directories
Make sure you have submitted your web site to the 10 big
search engines and directories. Most of your traffic will
be generated from these search engines. Keep checking
to see if your web site is indexed. Dmoz, Direct Hit and
Inktomi seem to be gaining a lot of importance so make
sure that you are listed in these sites. Their results
are used by a number of other important search engines.
Don't change the URL of your pages after submission
Never change the path of any of your web pages after submitting
your web site. Don't rename a file or change the file
extension. This can really hurt your promotion efforts
because it will show up as a dead link in the search results
page.
Be Patient
Don't expect miracles overnight. It may take anywhere
from 2 weeks to 5 months to be indexed in the big search
engines and directories. Keep checking every week and
be patient. Continue to add quality content to your site.
That will be a sure winner.
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