If
you want more people to visit your website, you must know how to create
search-engine-friendly web pages, and then submit your URL to all the
major search engines. You
have a few options to consider, 1) manually submit your site, one page at a
time to each search engine, 2) use a free auto submitter 3) purchase software
or 4) outsource the process.
Manual Submit: Submitting your pages is a simple and sometimes
tedious task. After all the work of building your pages with the proper
positioning characteristics, now is the time to put your work to the
acid test. The reality of submitting is that you may end up registering
the pages with minor changes several times in order to improve your
ranking. You should focus first on the 8 major search engines; InfoSeek,
HotBot, Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos, WebCrawler, Excite and Northern
Lights. If your site contains 10 pages, this means you will need to
register 80 pages. If you have to do this 5 times...you're up to 240
submissions...to say the least, it can be very tedious.
Free Auto
Submit: There are various sources to submit your site which will
allow to submit to multiple portals at the same time.
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Purchase Software: With the right software, you can have
your site and multiple pages registered in hundreds of search engines by
doing it yourself.
When you make changes to your pages, the software gets you re-registered
with a click. With this level of simplicity at a minimal cost, it will
help you get positioned and stay positioned. More
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Outsource Service: The other alternative is to use a service to
register all of your pages. Many of these services will submit your
page(s) to hundreds of search engines. There are two basic kinds of
outsource services 1) Submit Only on a one time or multiple basis or ...
2) Optimize your web site and pages, submit your pages, maintain your
site submissions with the objective to get as high as possible SE
placement. If you prefer not to do it
yourself, this is a very good alternative. The cost may be more than doing it yourself
but the results should pay much more than pay for this service. More
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In all cases you are going to have to register your pages several times
and maintain continuously, in order to get
the best position possible.
The Bottom Line: If you have a
small site with a few pages that serves as a web presence only, then
continue submitting manually. If you have a product or service to sell
or need widespread web presence then consider a serious commitment to
promoting your web.
If you are serious about getting positioned and don't want to
spend unnecessary hours needed to stay positioned consider
speaking with these consultants. We can help you get there, in three
different ways: