Friday, June 25, 2010

Submitting Your site to Search Engines

If you've a web-based business concern or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the better advertisement 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 impressive in a small proportion.

Beware of companies that assure automated submission of your website to hundreds of search engines which are just only false promises. The best way to submit your site for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to rent an skilled person to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories.

Before you start to submit your website to search engines check your sites are soundly configured to the professional quality applying the right key words, effective graphics and images and the relevant article. Don’t submit sites that are incomplete. While submitting to a search engine, be sure to provide information about your website, keywords and any other information that possibly appropriate, including the name and contact information of your business.


Bare submission to search engine companies doesn't assure that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Since there are thousands of new websites arising daily and it might take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors. One significant factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your site 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. You can choose to do it yourself with a software package and service like this one:
WebPosition Reporter: Packages and Pricing Or if you want professional help try the following sites:

Don’t apply the automatic submission services.

Here is a list of the most popular Search Engines and directory companies:

Search Engines
Go.com, AltaVista
Google, HotBot
Excite/Webcrawler

Directories
AOL Search
Lycos Open Directory
MSN, Yahoo!
LookSmart Snap

Apart from the above there are thousands of search engines and directory companies, where you are able to submit your site to as many companies as possible. The following links gives fact on other search engines and directories:
http://websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/blsearchenginesatoz.htm
http://websearch.about.com/library/tableofcontents/blsearchenginetableofcontents.htm

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