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If you have a web-based business or if a significant
portion 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.
Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your
website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false
promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine
ranking and inclusion 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. While
submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information
about your website, keywords and any other information that may be
pertinent, including the name and contact information of your
business.
Just a basic submission to search engine companies does not
guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking
will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up
every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your
site for review by human editors. One important factor to remember
while submitting site is to include 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 many online companies that accept search engine submission
services.
WebCeo
AddMe
Don't use the automatic submission services.
Here is a list of the most popular 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
directories, where you can submit your website to as many companies
as possible.
Learn more about building and continued success of your online
business. Visit the Internet
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