Submit site to announce it to the world!

Written by Steve Nash


SUBMIT YOUR SITE TO 10,000 SEARCH ENGINES!!!

NO, don't bother! It's a waste of time, and you'll probably just receive lots of spam.

Instead, submit your site torepparttar major search engines and directories, monitor results, and resubmit only if your site isn't listed yet. (You have worked hard on page content, page title and keyword and description meta tags, haven't you?) Repeat this process for any new content you create.

You can use an automatic tool, or you can hand-submit to each site. The latter approach takes more time, but at least you can be sure your site *has* been submitted!

Either way,repparttar 128179 site-submission process doesn't take long, but it may well take a few months before your efforts are rewarded by search engine traffic. But rewarded you will be - search engines are stillrepparttar 128180 best way of getting site traffic, for least cost!

=> USE THIS SITE SUBMISSION RESOURCE

Use Jim Tools site submission tool. This fantastic tool allows you to submit your site to allrepparttar 128181 major search engines and directories (excludingrepparttar 128182 human-edited directories like Yahoo!, Looksmart, and DMOZ - you have to visit these sites directly. You must now also visit Alta Vista directly, too.)

Jim Tools is a highly popular destination with webmasters and site promotersrepparttar 128183 world over; so you can be sure thatrepparttar 128184 submission tool is kept up to date. (Hence it is best to visit at a less popular surfing time ofrepparttar 128185 day!)

http://jimtools.com/submit.html

=> OR VISIT THESE LINKS

AltaVista http://add-url.altavista.com/cgi-bin/newurl?

AOL Search http://search.aol.com/add.adp

DirectHit http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html

Excite http://www.excite.com/info/add_url/

FAST Search http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3

Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html

HotBot http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp

Lycos http://www.lycosuk.co.uk/service/addasite.html

Looksmart/MSN http://search.msn.com/addurl.asp

NBCi http://www.nbci.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,-1077,00.html?

Search Engine Promotion - your options explained

Written by Carl Hruza


Most people have limited knowledge when it comes to search engine ranking andrepparttar various types of services on offer. We all know that having top 10 positions on some ofrepparttar 128178 leading engines can bring allrepparttar 128179 traffic we can handle, and then some. But how do we get those top 10 listings and what should we expect to pay to get them? A simple way to approach this is to look at your competition. Do a quick search on one ofrepparttar 128180 leading engines like Google or AltaVista, using a search phrase that people might use when looking for your products or services, and see what comes back. As a basic 'rule of thumb' guide - Between 100 and 5000 puts you in a 'low competition' category. Between 5001 and 25000 puts you in a 'medium competition' category. Between 25001 and 250,000 puts you in a 'high competition' category. Over 250,000 puts you in a 'Extremely high competition' category. Here are some examples we found on AltaVista:- "detroit real estate" - 2.7M "curtain fixtures" - 817,000 "auto parts" - 130,000 "mortgage loans" - 84,000 "coin collecting" - 14,000 "wedding accessories" - 9,000 "florida vacations" - 5,000 "model railways" - 5,000 Based onrepparttar 128181 above, determinerepparttar 128182 competitiveness of your category, then researchrepparttar 128183 level of service necessary for your site. Once you have determinedrepparttar 128184 level of competition for top positions in your business category,

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