Web Site Promotion and Search Engine Optimization

Submitting Your Site to Search Engines

So you have now developed your site and you have some quality content and some inbound links and its been relatively optimized to help your rankings in the search engines and now you want to actually want to see visitors flowing through. Well then the next step is a fairly logical and basic one. For most sites you will receive a large proportion of your traffic from search engines and for many they want to get as listed in the search engines as quickly as possible, so here are some things you need to make sure of and may help you getting ranked. Firstly before you submit your site to any search engines make sure that you have done the above, being created a quality site, with good content and that it is ready to be ranked by the search engines and it is optimized for the topic, there is no point submitting a site that isn’t ready to be ranked because when it is ranked it will be so far down the rankings it may as well not be ranked. Plus search engines don’t look kindly on half finished sites and nor do visitors for that matter. So make sure your site is well developed before even submitting your site to any search engines, and if at all possible have content already prewritten and ready to be posted over the coming days, weeks and months after you have given them your finishing touches. Search engines love coming back to sites with new and fresh content and it will help your rankings no end.



Search engine submission is one of those things that again many have varying opinions on, and as it stands there are thousands of sites and businesses out there promising to get you site submitted to hundreds of search engines for a ‘small’ fee. However despite this promise the reality is for the major search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN, will in all likelihood list in their own time regardless of how much you submit your site to them or who actually submits the site, and when 95+% of your search engine traffic will be coming from these big three paying hundreds of dollars for no return that you couldn’t achieve yourself seems wasteful. Search engines (or at least the ones the majority of people use) are designed to be as unbiased as possible and with that being the case they conduct a vast amount of browsing around the web themselves and will index pages and sites completely unawares to the owners. Often you need only submit your URL to these search engines once and a few weeks to a couple of months later they will have you listed and from that moment on they will actually periodically revisit your site and update their records and add any new pages you might have, so constant or mass submissions to search engines are something I believe to have been exploited by many to being the way to get huge amounts of traffic that you otherwise couldn’t get from search engines, which is completely untrue and personally you’d be much better served developing your site and content after submitting your site to a few of the major sites – the rest will catch up in their own time and by the time they do catch up your site will be that much better for it.

Submit Your Web Site to Google
Submit Your Web Site to Yahoo
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