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Submitting your site to Search Engines
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By Matt Bacak
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The submission process is merely telling that search engine thata site exists and has nothing to do with rankings that in thesearch results.
The process of submission is a lot different from Search EngineOptimization.
Before you submit the sites make sure that site is ready forsubmissions:
， Complete all the pages. Leave no "under construction" sign. ，Validate all the links. ， Complete the Search EngineOptimization. ， Test the page compatibility with all searchengines. ， Use Robots.txt or Robots META Tags to prevent pagesyou want hidden from being indexed. ， If your site is ane-commerce site, test your ordering process or shopping cart forbugs. ， Google "web site usability" should be used to testusability.
Prepare a Text File/Spreadsheet:
This will help you while submitting the site. It is to keep allrequired info in one place.
Write the following in the file/spreadsheet:
， Your website's main URL ， The URLs for other pages on yoursite ， Your site's Title (the name of your site as you want itlisted in engines) ， A short description of your page/sitecontent (Around 20 words) ， A long description of your page/sitecontent (Just 40 words) ， A list of target keywords for yourpage/site ， Name of person doing the submissions. ， Emailaddress of above person. ， Address and contact details of yourcompany (some directories may ask for this)
If you are using a spreadsheet you can also use a date/remarkscolumn to keep track of the key points of submitting the site.
Steps to submit the site:
First check if the pages you wish to submit are already indexedor not? If they are there is no good reason to do so again andagain. Different engines follow different ways to submit thesite.
Site Submission at Yahoo:
Yahoo is basically a directory of websites. It takes around twoto six weeks to get listed in Yahoo. Yahoo has differentcategories where in some are free while some are paid. The paidones are priced at $299.If you find your desired category asfree Bingo!! Just go ahead and do the submissions. Else you mayneed to buy it. In case you have made a wrong submission theHuman Editors will modify or edit it.
Submitting to Google:
Google is not only the number one search engine on the net butalso the best in crawling through all the websites on the web.Currently it crawls through almost 4 billion websites adding toits already huge database. If you are not sure whether your siteis indexed or nor just type in your URL and search. It takesalmost 60 days for Google to index or re index the pages and addto its database.
Currently there is no Pay per Inclusion programme present forthe site submission.
Submitting to Global Business Listing:
A Pay Per inclusion search engine, Global business Listing, itis rather very economical and may help you place your siteamongst the very first results in Google also.
Currently numbered four in the Google listings for Food Growers,Luxury Car Dealers and Pharmaceutical Industry Manufacturers, itis a reliable way t o get better listings.
With a listing it also offers discounted web hosting service asapart of the package. Also come to links to your website therebyimproving the page rank of the site.
Submitting to Alta Vista:
Now the paid submissions are faster then the free ones for thisSearch Engine. They require typing some graphical numbers andcharacters while submission top avoid the automatic submissionengines from cluttering the database. It usually takes 2- 4weeks to finally index the site.
The submission process can be free and paid also. The paid oneis faster then the free one. To start the paid one, one needs tofix a budget that will be spent on the whole process.
To start with, get the Yahoo listings by paying an annualmembership. This will get you a placement in the Yahoo'shuman-compiled directory.
After submissions, just concentrate on the content of site andswait for at least 60 days. As they say all the good things tothose who wait, you will discover joys of getting good placementin the rankings, after this time only.
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