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How Do I Submit My Site To Search Engines?
by: Vinu Thomas
You've built
up a good site, put in a lot of content, but
none of the search engines lists your site?
If you'd like to know how to go ahead with
Search Engine Submission the right way, read
on.
How do I get
my site to be included in search-engines?
That's a question a lot of people ask me. My
question back to them is "Is your Site
Search-engine ready?". A lot of sites don't
get spidered into search engine results just
because the pages are not search-engine
friendly. Search engines like to see a lot
of text on your site. This means that if
your site is filled with Flash animations
and graphics, instead of text for content,
your site probably not show up in
search-engine results. Another reason your
site might be loosing out in search engine
rankings could be the lack of meta-tags.
So what are
meta-tags? Metatags are small pieces of code
which you embed into your pages which
informs your search engines about your
site's contents, how to spider your site,
and other such instructions.
Most search
engines look at your page's meta-tags and
title tag to get the relevant information to
index your site. So you should make sure
that all your pages have the relevant
details in meta-tags. The three most
important tags for your site are
'DESCRIPTION' and 'KEYWORDS' meta-tags and
the 'Title' tag on all pages.
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The
'DESCRIPTION' tag is used to describe the
contents of the page. You should enter a
short description of the page in this tag.
Here's how the tag will look when you
enter the description of the page:
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The
'KEYWORDS' tag is used to tell the search
engine which keywords words you feel are
important in the page. This helps in the
ranking process of search engines. In your
keywords tag, use as many combinations of
your search term as you can, without
repeating the same terms too many times.
Some search engines penalize a site for
repeating keywords. Here's how a keywords
tag would look :
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Every page
you have on your site should have a Title
tag. All search engines use the content of
your title tag to index the content of
your site. So make sure you've got a Title
tag and the Title has some relevance to
the content in your page. An example of
the title tag :
How to submit
your site
So once you've
entered your tags properly, your start of
the HTML code for the page should look like
this :
How to submit
your site
These three
tags by themselves should give a boost to
your ranking once the search engine crawls
your site. If you want a tool to make the
tags for you, check out my Meta-Tag
Generator Script at:
http://www.vinuthomas.com/gate.html?name=MetaMaker.
This online tool helps you generate the
basic and some advanced meta-tags for your
pages.
Now how do you
get the search engine to crawl your site?
You'll have to start submitting your site to
the search-engines for them to start
crawling your site. Here are the Submission
URL's for some of the major search engines:
Google:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Exact Seek:
http://www.exactseek.com/add.html
All The Web:
http://addurl.alltheweb.com/add_url
MSN Search :
http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm
Altavista
:
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
Scrub The Web:
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
Sympatico
:
http://pre.sympatico.ca/en/search/submit.html
True Search :
http://www.truesearch.com/addurl/
Lycos :
http://insite.lycos.com/
Ask Jeeves/Teoma
:
http://ask.ineedhits.com/sitesubmit.asp
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