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