per click as well. The paid inclusion spider crawls the page every 48 hours, so you're able to tweak it to try to get better rankings.
Site Match gets your pages into Yahoo! Web pages, FAST, AltaVista, Overture supplemental results, HotBot, and more, so the visibility
is certainly impressive. It's important to note that Site Match pages are shown with the regular Yahoo! crawler results with no distinction between the two.
If a page is important to you and you're having problems getting it picked up by Yahoo!'s family of search engines, you may want to consider Site Match. However, it can certainly get expensive if you have a number of pages to submit.
4. Do we need software programs or search engine submission services that will submit our pages to thousands of search engines for one "low price"?
In a word NO!
We've already learned that the majority of traffi.comes from the major search engines. Submitting to the important international or minor engines through a software program like WebPosition Gold 3 (
webposition.com/gold.htm) is a consideration. But submitting to thousands of search engines, many of which are "free for all" Web sites (pure junk), won't benefit your site at all.
Save your money!
5. All of this is fine and good, but what if the site is brand new with no inbound links?
Get your site listed in a directory such as Yahoo! Directory (
yahoo.com/) or the Open Directory Project (
dmoz.org). Then, spend some time finding a few sites that will agree to put links on their sites to yours.
Are there any vertical search engines and directories in your topic area? Visit Search Engine Guide and search through their topical search engine directory:
searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html So, take the stress-free approach with search engine submissions and . . .
1) Link to all of your important pages from another page on your site.
2) Get inbound links from another site pointing to your site.
2) Let the major engines find your pages on their own.
3) Monitor your progress. If a search engine hasn't indexed one of your pages, make sure to place additional links to that page in the pathway of the spiders.
Important Note: You may be using an SE.company to handle the optimization of your Web pages, including your search engine submissions. Does this mean you're paying too much for those SEO services? No. SEO work is extremel.complex and time consuming, and a good search engine optimizer is helping to make your online business a success. The purpose of this article is to educate you on search engine submissions in general, since so many people wrongly believe that the acting of submitting pages will get those pages to the top of the search engine rankings.
In Conclusion . . .
So many Web site owners and SEOs make search engine submissions much harder than they have to be. Take a deep breath, direct the spiders through your Web site to make sure they are able to find your Web pages, and relax. Let the search engines do what they do best . . . spider the Web!
About The Author
Robin Nobles is the Co-Director of Training of Search Engine Workshops, where they teach "hands on" search engine marketing workshops (
searchengineworkshops.com) in locations across the globe. They also offer Ultra Advanced SEO Symposiums (
ultraadvancedsymposium.com) for advanced search engine marketers who want to take their learning to a new level. They have opened the first networkin.community for SEOs called The World Resource Center for Search Engine Marketers (
sew-wrc.com) and have expanded their workshops to Europe with Search Engine Workshops UK (
searchengineworkshops.co.uk).
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