How to Promote your Web Site:
One of the best ways to promote your
Web Site is to list it in many electronic directories and search engines,
so people can easily find your Web Site. Most search engines do not charge
anything to be listed in their directories. The best place to start is
www.yahoo.com.
Links to the Top Search Engines-
The surest way to get listed with
each one of these sites is probably the least fun and the most work. That
would be to follow the links below to each site and add your web site information
to their database by hand. Most of these engines have a link (usually at
the bottom of their homepage) that says something to the effect of "add
url" or "submit your site." It also happens to be the least expensive.
(We offer a Search Engine Submission
tool that is located on the Control Panel for customers with the Basic
Plan or higher. This tool steps you through submitting your site to the
top 12 Search Engines with a click of a button. But, before submitting
your site, be sure and update your website by putting in the necessary
META Tags mentioned below. There is no guarantee that you will be placed
at the top of the search engine list. So, check out all our resources below
to try to move your site to the top of the list. ) |
Web Promotion includes the following:
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Meta tags for your "title", "description",
and "keywords".
<meta NAME="keywords"
CONTENT=" your keywords here">
<meta NAME="description" CONTENT="
your description here ">
<title> your title here
</title>
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A Title (with a high percentage of your
site's keywords, and a title that starts with an "A" is best because some
search engines sort alphabetically).
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A Description (with a high percentage
of your site's keywords)
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Keywords (to see someone's keywords, while
viewing a web site, click "view" "source". Then you can see what keywords
they are using (who they are targeting). For fun, go to your competitors
web sites, and click "view ", "source" (Netscape calls it "page source".)
You will be looking for something that says "Meta keywords ".
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After the site is designed, it needs to
be "submitted" to the top search engines (Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Altavista,
HotBot...there are hundreds of them.) The majority of them charge NOTHING
for you to submit a site to them. The best
place to begin submitting your site is Yahoo.com. After you
submit your web site there, search for "search engines" and begins submitting
your site at other search engines.
Additional resources:
Search
Engine Tutorial
SitePromoter
Web
Submit
How
to use Meta Tags
Web
Promote
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