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The following tips and tricks will help you to get the best results from search engine and Internet directory submission:
1. Do not submit your website if you haven't optimized it
Search engines use very simply software programs to index your web pages. A web page that looks great to the human eye can be totally meaningless to search engines.
Make sure that search engines can understand your web pages. Submitting an unoptimized website is totally pointless and a waste of time.
2. Only submit your website to related search engines and directories
You should submit your website to all search engines, Internet directories and special interest sites that are related to your website.
Do not submit your website if the Internet directory or special interest site is not related to your site. Only submit your website to those search engines that are relevant to your business and to your country.
Search engines and directories that have nothing to do with your website topic will not list your website and they might consider your submission as a spamming attempt.
Being listed on as many Internet directories and search engines as possible will bring your website many visitors and new customers. Even if a single search engine might not bring you many visitors, it all adds up and you'll benefit from increased link popularity and higher rankings in other search engines.
3. Do not submit your site too often
In general, it is not necessary to re-submit your website once a search engine has indexed it. Search engine spiders will automatically revisit your website to find new and updated pages.
If your website is not listed on a search engine, do not submit your website more often than every four weeks. Search engines need some time to list new pages. Most search engines won't deliver immediate results. Usually, your website will be indexed within 4-12 weeks.
4. Only submit your index page
It is not necessary to submit more than your index page. Search engines will follow the links on your home page and they will index every page on your site.
Just make sure that all pages of your site can be reached through the links on your site. If you don't have a sitemap yet, it might be a good idea to build one. A sitemap is a page on your website that links to all important pages on your website.
5. Do not submit redirections
Your website should have its own domain name and the domain name should point directly to your website. If your domain name is only a redirection to another domain that hosts your website then you won't get good results.
6. You cannot submit your website to some search engines
Some search engines don't have a submission form. For example, Ask.com finds new websites by following the links on other pages. Yahoo.com requires you to login to your account before you can submit your site.
Some popular search engines use the database of another search engine. For example, many people think that AOL.com is a search engine. It isn't. AOL.com uses the index of Google.com. When you submit your website to Google, you also submit it to AOL.com.
If the result pages list text like "Powered by Google" or "Results by Yahoo" then it's likely that the search engine doesn't have its own database. For that reason, it's not possible to submit to that search engine. |