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#143477 - 05/28/07 12:41 PM
Re: Best way to submit website to search engines
[Re: JoeyBagadonuts]
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I manually submitted my sites to Google, Yahoo. I didn't bother with MSN because for a while it was poweredby Google. Submitting to Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htmlAbout the only other site that I'd worry about is Ask.com Nobody uses any of those other off Broadway search engines. If you're in Google, MSN, and Yahoo, you're good to go. The key to search engine success is to have good SEO. Make sure you have great page titles, alt text on all of your images, use SEO friendly header tags on all of your pages, don't ignore meta tags. Have a robots.txt doc in the main directory of your website, have a site map. Not only use alt tags on images, but use title tags on all your text links. Avoid stuffing of keywords. Your site will be found eventually anyway - I'd worry more about SEO. What is funny is this - I was going to ask the owners of a blueberry farm near me to let me make a website for them. I designed a mock up site and put it in a directory on my server...my goal was to go in and see them and show them what I could do and get the deal. The text of the site is just this: the word Text repeated over and over with some references to the blueberry farm (whatever I knew about them) Google found it. In fact, when googling it, my fake site comes up on page two - LOL - but before they actually made their own site, I was on page 1! I never submitted it, but my seo on the graphics, titles, and stuff got it on page one for a long time. Google found it all on its own. (no, I didn't do their main site, I ended up having a lot of personal issues come up and I gave up my web design business...but my fake site is still up. LOL)
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#143491 - 05/28/07 01:11 PM
Re: Best way to submit website to search engines
[Re: JoeyBagadonuts]
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In my experience - yes. I don't know but it might be harmful for your site to use these auto submission sites, if the search engine can see that it's an auto submission it may give it a lot less credibility than a manual submission. And in case you come across it, do NOT under any circumstances use a web positioning software such as WebPositionGold - you will get BANNED from Google. Just build your site, build it well, and you will do fine. 
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#143585 - 05/28/07 07:21 PM
Re: Best way to submit website to search engines
[Re: Perky_REALTOR]
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I manually submitted my sites to Google, Yahoo. I didn't bother with MSN because for a while it was poweredby Google. Submitting to Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htmlAbout the only other site that I'd worry about is Ask.com Nobody uses any of those other off Broadway search engines. If you're in Google, MSN, and Yahoo, you're good to go. The key to search engine success is to have good SEO. Make sure you have great page titles, alt text on all of your images, use SEO friendly header tags on all of your pages, don't ignore meta tags. Have a robots.txt doc in the main directory of your website, have a site map. Not only use alt tags on images, but use title tags on all your text links. Avoid stuffing of keywords. Your site will be found eventually anyway - I'd worry more about SEO. What is funny is this - I was going to ask the owners of a blueberry farm near me to let me make a website for them. I designed a mock up site and put it in a directory on my server...my goal was to go in and see them and show them what I could do and get the deal. The text of the site is just this: the word Text repeated over and over with some references to the blueberry farm (whatever I knew about them) Google found it. In fact, when googling it, my fake site comes up on page two - LOL - but before they actually made their own site, I was on page 1! I never submitted it, but my seo on the graphics, titles, and stuff got it on page one for a long time. Google found it all on its own. (no, I didn't do their main site, I ended up having a lot of personal issues come up and I gave up my web design business...but my fake site is still up. LOL) I clicked on that yahoo link above. I entered my URL (http://www.4saleinbucks.com) and it said: "Thank you! Your URL has been added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please expect a delay of several weeks before your URL is crawled." Is this all I have to do? lol I know there is more to this.
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#143677 - 05/29/07 12:54 AM
Re: Best way to submit website to search engines
[Re: Perky_REALTOR]
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There's plenty of free submit services. http://www.submitpro.comArticle writing will also get your site better ranking.
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#143864 - 05/29/07 03:45 PM
Re: Best way to submit website to search engines
[Re: Perky_REALTOR]
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I think that they'll just find your site on their own, if you have it done right.  USUALLY. Then there's those occasional sites, like ones in Albequerque, that seem to be cursed by google. Perky now that's a thought. I should go for all the different ways to spell Albuquerque. Karen H. says she usually gets hits for all the typos. Google does find me it just treats me "like the b*st*rd at the family reunion" and stick's me next to Aunt Martha from Kalamazoo MI who likes to sell FSBO. Joey make sure you have a good site map and use Google Webmaster Tools to check that it is Google friendly.
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#143878 - 05/29/07 05:00 PM
Re: Best way to submit website to search engines
[Re: Secret_Agent]
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The rules and algorthyms for the search enginges are constantly changing. What is important today, will likely not be that important 90 days from now. I tried to do it for myself but quickly realized I needed professional help if I wanted to stay on top. If you really want to use the website as a main source of contacts, you need to design the site specifically to appeal to the search engines and you need someone to constantly monitor and track the site. Submitting a site and hope it rises is a long term prospect with not very good odds of reaching the top.
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#144323 - 05/31/07 04:09 AM
Re: Best way to submit website to search engines
[Re: Perky_REALTOR]
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the fastest way of being found by the search engines is having BLs from blogs. Especially G loves blogs.
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This Google Custom search may do a better job of searching the forums for some keywords than the old forum search does. The results do not include threads from the Asset Managers Forum however. To search that forum you will need to be actually in the Asset Managers Forum and you will need to use the old forum search below.
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