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Submit Your Site To Search Engines
here are many Search millions of sites in listed in
Engines and Directories, major Indexes.
but only a few major ones
will bring you most traffic. In 2.) How To Submit Your Site To
this article I will describe how Yahoo Directory
to submit your site to Yahoo,
Google and Open Directory Listing with Yahoo Directory will
provide several benefits for your
1.) Directories And Indexes site. First of all, you will get
some traffic from Yahoo
First, I would like to describe a Directory. However, number of
difference between Directory and visitors will depend on category
Index. Directory is a collection where your site is listed. There
of links divided by subjects just are some highly competitive
like Yahoo Directory at categories that may not generate
dir.yahoo.com. Let's say you are much traffic. Also some search
interested in Finance. Go to indexes are more likely to
Business & Economy section and include your site if you are
press Finance. You will find listed with Yahoo Directory or
variety of topics listed under Open Directory Project which is
Finance. discussed later in this article.
Index is the number of sites You must decide what category
available for search. For your page will be listed under
example, you go to Yahoo.com and before before submitting it to
enter "Napoleon" in search box. Yahoo Directory. Usually there is
Results will show a number of more than one category
sites related to Napoleon in appropriate for your site. You
Yahoo Index. The same is true for have to decide which one works
any other search term. There are best for you based on several
factors: relevance, number of doesn't state when your site will
competing sites under the be reviewed with free submission.
category. For example my site If you have time to wait, you may
www.yourcareerlinks.com is listed try this option.
under Business & Economy -
Employment And Work - Careers And 3.) How To Submit Your Site To
Jobs - Jobs - Directories. Yahoo Index
In order to suggest your site to When you go to
Yahoo Directory, select your http://search.yahoo.com/info/subm
category and click Suggest A Site it.html, first option is to
link located below upper right submit your site for free to
corner. If your category is Yahoo Search Index. Before you do
commercial, you can list your that, your site must be optimized
site only through Express for Search Engine inclusion with
submission. appropriate titles and meta tags.
Below you will see what title and
Express submission costs $299. meta tags look for this page:
Yahoo editors check your site
within 7 days. Please read Yahoo Web Marketing, How To Submit Your
instructions carefully. Your Site To Search Engines
payment of $299 doesn't guarantee
automatic inclusion. If they Title describes your page in a
approve it, your site will be few words. META
listed in Yahoo Directory and you name="DESCRIPTION" is a short
will pay $299 annually to outline of what your web page is
maintain it in the directory. about. META name="KEYWORDS"
includes keywords relevant to the
Yahoo Standard Submission is free page. Each page of your site may
for non-commercial sites. Yahoo have different Title and Meta
Tags Google
The purpose of relevant titles Google is another major Search
and Meta Tags is to help web Engine. They offer two
surfers to identify sites they opportunities to market your
are looking for through site. You can submit the site to
descriptions and keywords. Google Index for free here. As I
However, it is quiet hard to get stated before, you probably are
top Search Engine placement ( not going to get high ranking,
whch is to get listed among first but you might get some clicks
20- 30 results ) these days. from Google if your site will be
There are many competitors, rules listed.
and criterias are constantly
changing and it is becoming Another option to advertise with
increasingly difficult to obtain Google is through Pay-Per-Click
high ranking in the Index. (PPC) Program called Google
AdWords. You can read in my
Chances are that your site is not article about Pay-Per-Click
going to be listed high with marketing here.
Indexes. Therefore, my
recommendation is to use free 5.) Open Directory Project
submission options to Yahoo
Search Index or any other Search Open Directory Project is
Index for that matter unless you directory of web sites managed by
are an expert in Search Engine volunteer editors. Inclusion is
optimization and ranking. You free, but it has to be approved
don't want to pay to get ranked by editor. There is no time frame
number 256 or whatever. as to when your site will be
reviewed. If your site is not
4.) How To Submit Your Site To listed within a few months after
you applied, you can submit it their Index such as Excite while
again. Open Directory is located others like Lycos offer Pay Per
at www.dmoz.org. You should find Click options
appropriate category for your
site and submit it. In my opinion, the best way to
bring traffic to your site is to
There are other Search Engines list it with Yahoo, Google and
out there. Many are based on Open Directory Project. In
Yahoo or Google Search. For addition, one should use Pay Per
example, Alta Vista Click marketing which is
(www.altavista.com ) is now based explained in my PPC Marketing
on Yahoo Search index. Therefore, Article at
if your site is listed with Yahoo http://www.webhostchecklist.com/p
Search Index, it is probably ayperclick.html .
listed in Alta Vista as well.
Some offer paid inclusion in
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