Search Engine Submissions
On marketing, submit your site to the search engines. You can do this yourself. There is a
submit your site or add button at most sites, on a few its hidden in the help menu, but do it every other month. Most have policies you can read, but the top ones are important. Don't be discouraged, it takes 2-3 months for them to pick you up and it may take more than one submission.
Also submit to Yahoo. A long form but well visited site. It is not an
Engine , it is a directory. They also don't list quickly, if at all.
You can use a submission service, but it takes about a half hour to do the top eight.
Excite | HotBot | Northern Light | Lycos
| Webcrawler | AOL | Alta Vista | Google
Some of these get their info from www.Dmoz.org
so if you submit to this directory, you'll eventually find
yourself listed in many of them.
Now there are many search engines and
directories that offer express submissions or guaranteed
submissions. Check www.askjeeves.com
and www.inktomi.com. They
have different rates, but have a strong following with other
indexing services.
A few notes and words of caution:
It takes up to a few months for some/many of the
search engines to spider and place your site. Be patient. If you
resubmit your site to often, you may get banned by that Search
Engine as a spammer.
Too often can be more than once every other
month. Check your search engine's specs for their do's and don'ts.
Directories don't usually rank. They just list,
usually in alphabetical order. Yahoo and DMOZ are both
directories. To make it more confusing, Yahoo also has a search
engine with SE results. If you resubmit to Yahoo, make sure you
have a real good reason. If you're ranked, you may lose that
ranking or be dropped altogether. If they pick you up, tread
lightly.
Before you resubmit your site to the same search
engine, check that SE for your ranking. If you're not in the top four
or five pages, resubmit it.
I can do your submissions for you to the free
sites, and can quote for submitting to the pay sites. Please email
me for rates at submit_me@enchanted-isle.com
One thing I've found is getting a good listing is like living in the Caribbean. Everything happens in its own time. You can't get overnight results. I've had the Enchanted Isle for over
six years and I still find the site dropped from different engines, but there are so many sites, that people get in and find the main site and navigate thru anyway.
Bottom line.
Submit, submit, submit.
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