Submitting Your Website to Search Engines

If you have a web-based company or if a considerable part of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion.

Be careful of companies that assure automatic compliance of your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only fake promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and addition is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories.

Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant content. Don’t submit websites that are incomplete. When you submit site or blog to search engine, be careful for details for your website, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information of your business.

Mere submission to search engine companies does not assurance that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. As there are thousands of fresh websites upcoming up all day and it might get quite a little bit before they take up your site for review by human editors. One significant issue to keep in mind even as submitting site is to take in a site map of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots. Search engines like ‘http://www.google.com’ hardly considers submissions without sitemaps.

There are a lot of online companies that recognize search engine submission services. You can select to do it by hand with a software package and service like this one:

http://www.webposition.com/order/trial.asp?WT.mc_id=google%3A%7Bifsearch%3Asearch%7D%7Bifcontent%3Acontent%7D%3A%7Bcreative%7D%3Atrial%3A%7Bkeyword%7D&WT.srch=1

Or if you want professional help try the following sites:

http://www.addpro.com/professional_submission

http://www.submitawebsite.com/aboutus.html

Don’t use the automatic submission services.

Here is a list of the most well-liked Search Engines and directory companies:

Search Engines
Go.com/InfoSeek AltaVista
Google, HotBot
Excite/Webcrawler

Directories
AOL Search Inktomi
Lycos Open Directory
MSN, Yahoo!
LookSmart Snap

Apart from the above there are thousands of search engines and directory companies, where you can submit your website to as many companies as possible. The next links give information on extra search engines and directories:

http://websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/blsearchenginesatoz.htm

http://websearch.about.com/library/tableofcontents/blsearchenginetableofcontents.htm

Source : professionalseoindia.com

Don’t Panic! No-Do-Follow-You Pagerank Linking Problem Solved!

Is anyone else confused by the whole Google ruckus going on right now with regards to “nofollow” links?

What the dickens is going on?

Well, to prevent blog comment spam, Google implemented “nofollow” years ago as a parameter webmasters and blog owners could use in links to stop the link passing PageRank and being counted as a “vote” for the site the link pointed to. There was much rejoicing in the blogosphere as the dastardly blog comment spammers were defeated (or not).

Anyways, the dastardly SEO optimisers used “nofollow” in links to their privacy pages, legal pages and other webpages to “conserve” PageRank and send the wonderful “Google juice” to the pages they wanted to rank highest in the search engines. Google accepted this as pretty much a side effect of the introduction of “nofollow”, and all was well and jiggly with the world.

Until Matt Cutts (a Google uber-meister, engineer, or somesuch), recently said that nofollow now doesn’t work like the SEO guys thought it did. Instead of helping conserve PageRank, nofollow voids what would have been passed through the link had it not be nofollowed. Well, that threw a spanner in the works and everyone in the SEO world howled in rage! It didn’t help when Matt added that the change had already been implemented, and no-one noticed… “we figured that site owners or people running tests would notice, but they didn’t“.

Leslie Rhode said, “no way dude” (ok, he actually said, “First, the entire idea is just competely silly to start with and would have noticiable and really really bad ramifications that every SEO on the planet would have already noticed.”) and various other SEO’ers put forth ideas for working with Google and their new way of working with nofollow. One analysis I particularly like is Dr Andy Williams’ explanation of the changes and their effects, here.

So, what should you do?

Relax. Link to people who provide good content, nofollow any links that may potentially link to bad content (like your user-generated links) and then create more great content yourself in the time you would’ve spent worry about “pagerank bleeds”!




Source : neilshearing.com