Search Engine Submission Tips

Good web site submission can be considered an art and a science. As we speak there are thousands of others in the world trying to get there site noticed for some of the same attributes you are. With millions of web sites on the internet it can take months for your site to be indexed by search engines. This causes testing to take a long time.

There is a lot of useful information on the web covering web site submission.
Below is a list of some good searches that can point you in the right direction.
Some sites listed on Google

Some tips from MyOwnProgrammer

Be aware of FREE web site submission tools/sites. Most will ask for your email address and may pass it on to be used in spam emails. This does not mean they all do. If they do not they will mention it.
It is usually best to go directly to the main search engines and submit your site there. A lot of the lesser search engines will use the major search directories for their searches also. For links to some of the major sites see Links.
"You get what you pay for". If you submit your site to a search engine using their free submission tools it can take up to two months for your site to be listed. All of the major search engines have ways you can pay if you wish to speed up the process.
Try to keep your description tags to fewer than 200 characters.
Put similar words together. If you separate your key words by commas, put words that can make up phrases together. A lot of search engines will convert the commas to spaces. Example, "Web,Developer" will now be "Web Developer".
Try to get your site linked to from other sites. Examples include online magazine articles, job listings, online business directories. A lot of search engines use spiders to find your site. A spider is a program that goes through web page links and the more your site is found on other sites, the more popular it will be and the higher it will appear in their listings.

Getting your site ready to submit to search engines.

In order for your site to make sense to search engines, the pages contained in your site must be formatted in the right way. Some search engines will only look at the first x characters of your pages. So it is a good practice to make the first paragraph(s) in your pages contain important words for helping your site be found. In the <HEAD></HEAD> section of each page there will be tags that are the main text that aid search engines in creating meaning for your page. Below is a sample of a web page header.

   <HEAD>
	<TITLE>This is the page title</TITLE>
	<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Web,developer,HTML,ASP,FLASH,database">
	<META NAME="description" CONTENT="This is the page description.">
   </HEAD>

The "keywords" text is the list of words that get searched on by most search engines. Some search engines will catalog your complete site's text, but the keywords are used by all and are the most important. The keywords can be words or phrases separated by commas. Try to keep your keyword list to under 200 characters.
The "Description" text is the text that will be displayed when your site is found. You want this text to make sense and to give a good reflection of your site.

Now go submit your site!

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