Every site owner dreams of bringing more traffic to his site as well as achieving better search engine visibility. That undoubtedly is the top goal for everyone - but what is the first step to capture it? Sure, it’s common knowledge any noticeable traffic begins with search engine indexation. Unless a search engine indexes your site it will not show up in the results, this is because the search engine doesn’t even “know” about the site’s existence. So, how can you get your site listed in search engine? The question is rather simple still rises some disputes in SEO community.
Sometimes for the site to be indexed it’s enough to have a link from an indexed site so that search engine spider follows the link and indexes the pages from your site. However, in some cases it’s better not to pin your hopes on this method and to submit a site (manually or automatically) to search engines and directories.
Site submission - is the actual process by which a site is directly submitted to a search engine for inclusion into their database. My personal opinion is that automatic submission will never surpass manual submission but as a matter of fact you are to choose.
Prior preparation of the site is recommended but not crucial when submitting to search engine. On the contrary, when you are going to submit your site to the directory that is search engines powered by human beings then you should consider writing a capacious description to your site based on 3-4 most efficient terms for your site (don’t spare time to find the best keywords for your site with any keyword tool rather then guessing at these).
I consider the most logical is to submit to major free search engines like Google, Yahoo, DMOZ first and then to continue with smaller directories (like 01webdirectory.com, a1directorysearch.com, linkdiscovery.com, NationalDirectory.com and so on).
If you can afford to shell out $300 I recommend paid inclusion to Yahoo Directory. It will not only allow your page to be indexed within 72 hours and re-indexed every 48 hours but also will give weight to the site in the “eyes” of other search engines.
And one more thing- in order to make your first step to huge traffic correctly I advice you to read and follow all the instructions when submitting your site. Good luck!
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May 3rd, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Even though manual submissions may take a little more time, the results can be worth it.