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Getting Traffic to your web site - Search Engine Submission

Once you've developed your professional looking site - you need to get some traffic.
Before you hit the search engines...

Free Webmaster Tools - essential download for keyword analysis and search engine positioning!

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Is your site ready for submitting? Have you finished it?
Have a look at this Search Engine Submission FAQ.

Why not check out these other ways of getting publicity for your site too? Promotion can take on many different forms.

And of course there's no point in having traffic unless you're measuring it - take a look at the article on counters to get you started.

There's a list of search engines on the resources pages - although you're probably familiar with most of them!

You'll love this fantastic piece of software - Webmasters Toolbox - Amazingly fast and handy tools for webmasters; Search Engine Optimizer, Search Engine Position Report, Search Engine Submission, Site (link) popularity and Keyword Density Analyzer. All packed into a very tiny program, launch by a mouseclick, some of the applications virtually do not need a keyboard!


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Submitting to Yahoo

It has to be done manually ! There are thousands of categories in the directory and you must get it right the first time. The registration process with Yahoo is quite exact. You need to know that Yahoo will not accept your site registration if you initiate the submission from the wrong page on their site. You must first go to the category page that you wish to be listed in before you click "Suggest a site" found at the buttom of each "registrable" category.

Other Search Engines


Search engine positioning is by far the best way to generate traffic to your web site. A top rank in just one of the major search engines for one keyword can bring in thousands of new visitors to your site.
Taken from A Word of Caution By Sumantra Roy

You are working on creating a new Web Site. You have the basic layout done and a few of the main pages up. Do you start promoting the site now, or do you wait until it is finished?
Advertising Web Sites Before Completion
By Victor H. Schlosser



Finding keywords which will bring visitors - an important stage in building your site.

Getting those all important keywords onto the page is vital if you're going to rate with the search engines.

 

Guest Articles on HTMLCOOK

Okay, you have an HTML editor, you have plotted out your website, and you've taken time to read a few tutorials on what to do. Simply fire up that fancy editor, pick an appropriate template (which is simply a skeleton of a page where you can enter in your own data), and play.
Building Your Own Website, Part II By Robin Nobles
What will your potential visitor enter into a search engine to find your site? If you can find these magic keywords, phrases real people will use, then optimize your pages for them, you will have taken a key step toward generating hits. If you use the wrong words, you will waste a good deal of effort and achieve next to nothing.
The Magic Keywords By Bob McElwain
Once you have established the keywords for which you should optimize your site for the search engines, it is time to figure out how you can get a high ranking in the search engines for those keywords.
Creating keyword rich pages for the search engines By Sumantra Roy
When you think you're ready to submit - its best to submit by hand to the search engines. This article below will help you in this somewhat tedious but necessary task.
Organize your Tools: Begin by making a promotional cut and paste file. Spend time writing copy and collecting resources. Put the following items in an easily accessible file. For accuracy, open this file, to cut and paste when you do site submissions. An incorrect URL can take longer to get changed, than submitting a new one. Plan to get it right the first time.
Web Promotions for Newbies By Regina Garson


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