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Search Engine Submission - getting listed on the search engines |
Getting your site listed by search engines is very important. There are different ways of doing this: (a) Using a multi-submit form to sumbit to more than one engine at a time (b) Do each search engine submission one by one by hand. (c) Pay a company to submit your site. | |||
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things First - a quick FAQ Q: What is a search engine and what is a directory?
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Q:
How do search engines know how to categorise my site?
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Which method is best?
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| | Submitting
by hand Before you submit your site make sure that it and you are ready. Firstly check that you've included a page title, sub headings, good content using lots of your keywords, a good description in your metatags, a good list of keywords in your metatags... Metatags appear in the <head> </head> section of the web page, as does the <title> </title>. <meta name ="keywords" content =" your keywords here"> <meta name ="description" content ="page description here"> | |
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handy hint - speed up search engine submission
By cutting
and pasting these into the different fields in the submission forms, it will not
only save you heaps of time, but will eliminate grammatical and spelling errors
that can occur by typing into the submission fields for every search engine. | ||