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We all know that if you dont have traffic, you`re website is dead.  Search Engine submission is an important factor that could help make your business succeed online. In order to get the best results from search engines follow the web site 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.

 

Guidelines while submitting to Directories

  • Make sure your site is 100% up and running, with no "under construction" signs. Good site design, fast loading pages, and content are important, especially for Yahoo.

     
  • From the homepage of a directory take your time and find the appropriate category your site fits into. You can do a keyword search using your most important keywords or key phrases and note the category that lists these sites. That will probably be the best category for your site. You may also have multiple categories, in which case you must submit under all the suitable categories.

     
  • Once you have found a suitable category, look out for a "Suggest a site" or an "Add URL" link. Click on this link to submit your site.

     
  • Before rushing off to submit your site, carefully read their suggestions on how to submit. They REALLY mean it. Follow their instructions to the absolute letter.

     
  • Since Directories do not use robots, everything indexed into a directory is done by people. No META tags, ALT image tags, HTML comments or image maps will help your performance here. Your best bet is to describe your site accurately and the final decision of adding your web site to a directory's database rests with the editor who reviews your web site. Best of luck!

Major search engines which will drive approximately 90% 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. You'll be finished in just an hour or two.

Google is our favorite. 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, AOL and Netscape Search. Submit only your homepage URL. It will automatically index the entire site.

Still a Net favorite, Google is used more than 150 million times a day for searches. Free submission is still an option. They recently launched their own "Pay Per Click" program, called "Ad Words Select." This allows you to bid on key phrases or words, and when someone searches for those words, your text ad is shown in the right-hand column on the search results page. For more on this go to:
https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=Login

Ad Words Select will cost you 5.00 and a credit card number to get your site enrolled. Google is also the exclusive provider of sponsored links to AOL Search, pulling the sponsored links from its Ad Words Select Program. The top 3 ads will be displayed as sponsored links on AOL.Netscape will begin displaying Google's Ad Words sponsored links come August of 2002

Submit to Google here

 

Yahoo Directory

Yahoo is without a doubt the single most important index on the Internet. Make sure you follow the guidelines given above and Yahoo's submit page instructions while submitting your site. The effort you put in now will reap huge benefits in the long run.

 With over a million listings, Yahoo is considered the largest directory online today. All commercial sites must pay a $299.00 fee to submit to "Yahoo Express" per year. Adult sites must pay $600.00 for submission. Take time before submitting to yahoo to make sure you web site is worthy of their listings. The $299 is a annual non refundable fee.

Paying Yahoo for submission is not the only way to get listed there. They also pull the top three bid positions from Overture (formerly Goto.com) and display them at the top of the search results pages. Yahoo calls those listings "Sponsor Matches,"and also runs more Overture listings at the bottom of the page, under the heading "More Sponsored Matches."  Submit carefully!

Submit to Yahoo

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