search engine submission tips and tricks
Submitting Your
Website to Search Engines: If you have a web-based business or if
a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your
website, then the best advertising and
marketing is done by submitting to a search engine.
No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad,
spam email or newsletter will achieve the same
results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion. Beware of
companies that promise automatic submission of
your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false
promises.
The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking
and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an
expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and
directories. Before you begin to submit
your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly
designed to the professional quality using the
right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant content.
Don’t submit websites that are incomplete. While
submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide
information about your website, keywords and any other information that
may be pertinent, including the name and
contact information of your business. Mere submission to search engine
companies does not guarantee that your site
would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there
are thousands of new websites coming up
every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site
for review by human editors. One important
factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of
your website which makes the crawling easy for
the web robots.
Search engines like ‘http://www.google.com’ hardly considers
submissions without sitemaps.
There are many online companies that accept search engine
submission services. Here is a list of the most popular
Search Engines and directory companies:
Search Engines
Go.com/InfoSeek AltaVista
Google, HotBot
Excite/Webcrawler
Directories
AOL Search Inktomi
Lycos Open Directory
Bing, Yahoo!
LookSmart Snap
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