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Search
engine submissions must be considered after your site has been thoroughly tested
and uploaded to your web hosting server. Search engines are the primary method
people use to find information on the web. Not submitting your URL to the top
search engines would be like building a brand-new store and not telling anyone
about it.
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Meta
Tags:
Before search engine submissions, you need to make sure your
Meta Tags are in order. Many search engines use Meta Tags to determine where and
when to list your site in their search engine results. Meta tags is invisible
(to visitors) coding that tells search engines the title, description, and keywords
for each page on your site. This, in addition to other factors, will be how they
determine your ranking in the search engine results.
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Search
Engine Submission Fees:
There are web promotion companies that specialize
in search engine submissions and website promotion. That's all they do. Fees start
around $500 and up. If you have the budget, it would be money well spent. If this
is more than you currently want to spend, consider Active for your search engine
submissions.
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Meta
Tag Coding:
Selecting the best keywords is critical. Considerable
time is spent investigating not only the best keywords, but also their priority,
placement, position in Titles and Descriptions, as well as how they compare to
your competition. In most cases, only your homepage need be coded for submission.
The remaining pages will be spidered by the search engines.
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Search
Engine Submissions: $150
Includes manual submission to the following
search engines.
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Aeiwi
Alexa
AllTheWeb
AltaVista
Anzwers
Canada.com
DirectHit
EuroSeek Excite
Fast Search
Google
HotBot
Jayde
Lycos
MasterSite
National
Directory NBCi
Northern Lights
Open Directory
Rex
SimpleSearch
Subjex
What-U-Seek
X2Search
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Pay-For-Listings:
Because
of the enormous amount of websites joining the web each day, some search directories
now require a payment for being listed with them. Believe it or not, this is a
good thing! Requiring payment weeds out the "riff-raff and spammers"
and better ensures that only quality sites are listed. Generally, they command
a large proportion of search engine traffic to warrant such a payment. For example,
Yahoo is the number one most-used search engine on the internet today.
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LookSmart
- Pay-For-Listing $125
Webcrawler -Pay-For-Listing $125
Yahoo - Pay-For-Listing
$225 (recommended)
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Pay-For-Clicks:
The
"pay-for-clicks" system lets you bid for the top position in search
results. You "bid" against your competition for certain keywords. Again,
if you have the budget, it is well worth investigating.
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