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The Right Way to Submit Your Site.
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Are you going to submit your site to the search
engines the right way or the wrong way? To do it right, you need
to know what you're doing, and your site needs to be optimized before
you take it anywhere near a search engine. How can you know if your
site is ready? You consider these things before you submit. Have
you included your keywords in your title tag, description, and content?
Make sure you're tightly focused on only one or two keywords. You
should also check for broken links, as these can cause big problems
with search engines' spiders.Once you've submitted your site, you
need to be prepared to wait. The chances that you won't be added
to any engine's database for at least a month.
Rules
of Submission:
1. There's no need to submit more than once. Despite the hype, you
should never resubmit your site unless it gets dropped entirely. This
doesn't apply to new pages, however. If you have created a few hundred
pages in the last month or so and you don't think that they will be
indexed quickly enough via links to them it is a good idea to submit
them manually rather than waiting for your site to be indexed again.
If you are using a Google Site map, simply adding them to this document
will get them indexed pretty quickly.
2. Do it right the first time: be thorough when submitting, especially
to directories. Take the time to research and find the most appropriate
category for your site. If your site would fit into multiple categories
find out what the policy is on multiple submissions. Some directories
want you to submit to every relevant category, others want no more
than one submission or they reject all submissions. Some want every
page, others (most) want your index page and nothing more.
3. Be brief when you describe your site: get right to the point in
two short sentences. Most directories will actually restrict the number
of characters that you can use. If they don't it is still a good idea
to try to wrap it up within twenty-five to thirty words. This is one
of the largest differences between directory listings and search engine
listings. In the directory you only get a short line to attract visitors;
this is static for every visitor.
4. Be as accurate as you can. Don't try to trick people into visiting
your site, as it'll only backfire. Most directories are actually monitored
by a team of editors. These editors will visit your link and red flag
you if you are trying to deceive visitors or if you are trying to
cheat in any other way. When it comes to directory listings, there
are even less avenues for cheaters than there are in search engine
listings as directories are checked out by hand.
5. Make sure that all your information is relevant, and try to make
it appealing to humans as well as dense with keywords. Directories
don't care about your key words very much. If your site isn't attractive
to human beings it will be listed poorly. When human beings edit,
human beings rank, and human beings get what they want.
6. Be patient: good things come to those who wait. Let the search
engines take their time.
7) Don't submit any more than your homepage. The crawlers are quite
capable of following your links and indexing your whole site from
just your homepage's URL.
If you're submitting you site to the DMOZ directory, follow these
steps. If one doesn't work, wait a while and then do the next.
a) Submit your site.
b) Write a follow-up email to the category's editor, explaining that
you've been waiting and would like to know your site's status.
c) Email the next category editor up, in case there's a problem with
your category's editor.
d) Seek assistance at the Open Directory Project's public forum.
e) Email DMOZ senior staff seeking help. This is pretty much the last
resort.
Submissions can be time consuming at first, but you'll quickly get
it down to a science. If you work hard on your SEO before you submit
your site then you can get to the top more quickly than you'd think.
