Hi I’m new to website design, I have design a website and need some sort of simple guide to sumbitting a site to a search engine, it needs to start from the basics.
Before sumbiting, make sure you have some good [b]meta tags[/b]. Description, keywords, and a descriptive title on [i]every page[/i].
If you've done this (sorry if you have and I'm wasting time) then for places like Google, you don't always have to bother with submitting your site (I didn't).
Google will automaticly include your site after a while if it is linked to often by other popular sites. To get started, exchanging links with other sites might be a good idea. You could even put your site in your sig, as WebDeveloper.com is popular. http://www.link2me.com/ is a good place to exchange some links, but make sure you only accept [i]quality[/i], related links.
Addme.com (http://www.addme.com/) do have some good site submission and optimisation tools too though, so you could look at that too.
I'm new to website design, I have design a website and need some sort of simple guide to sumbitting a site to a search engine, it needs to start from the basics.
Does anyone know any good ones?
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Dont submit to the main search engines if you have done things corectly they will find you.
Submitting to major search engines can go against you.
You should get lots of backlinks directorys are a good way of doing this.
@pcthugMar 21.2006 — #As said in previous comments,
[I]Let them find you (This means don't submit to them manually, and ecspecialy don't submit to SE Promoters as such, they can cause you to get banned from some SE as they may be regarded as spamming!
Build up your inbound links (a good way to start is by submitting to directorys, joining webrings, etc.)
Build up a nice SE-Friendly Meta collection - with a well writen description and title, and a small but descriptive and direct list of keywords
And finally make your site as SE-Friendly as possible - Search engine friendly URL's (No query strings - index.php?subject=abc&page=123), Search engine friendly MarkUp (No unnecessary tables, good use of Heading/Alt/Title tags, minimized use of Javascript/Informative Images/Flash/Java/Dynamicly Created Content, etc.[/I]
@_lt_Eddie_gt_Apr 12.2006 — #Check out the article [URL=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102709]here[/URL] as it's aimed at starting out in the big bad world of internet promotion.