How
to Add Your URL to Search Engines
Add Your URL
My site is just beautiful!
It's Awesome - really! I spent weeks getting it
right, I've made sure that all the connections and
links are there, the site map is done, I've got my
keywords in the code, my Robots Follow tag, and I'm
ready to do business. So where are all the
people?
These are all good things to
have ready, no doubt on that, but your still not
going to see much traffic until you can add your
URL to the index's that the search engines look
through. I can hear a lot of Duh's happening right
now, as some people do tend to forget that the
basic's still apply.
When you looked into all
this, setting up your site or blog, you thought
that you'd get hits just from having great content,
awesome pricing and.... well, yes.
These will all have a bearing
on the total amount of hits you receive, and no-one
says not to have them, but bluntly put, until
people can see your site, it's pointless. Too many
times companies have "industry leading" websites
that get little or no traffic - Just what is the
point in that?? None, whatsoever. Until you add
your url to the indices for search engines, you
won’t start to receive your organic search
results.
Ways to Add Your
URL
There are a couple of ways
that you can do this. You can do it yourself, if
you don't mind spending the time on it. Every
search engine and directory has a methodology for
you to add your URL to their listings, it's simply
a time consuming thing to go through them one by
one and submit your ad for them to index, as
they'll all probably ask for variations on a theme
regarding information. You can use a free listing
service - drawbacks here are that usually you'll
see the "get listed on YYY number of engines" well
sure, but do I really think my site selling.
Whatever is going to have
appeal for enough people in Zaire or New Zealand to
warrant inclusion in search engines and directories
over there? I think not. Next to this is the
mainstay of indexing, paid services.
The companies that run these
will always vaunt how quickly they can have your
Internet site indexed, which in some cases is true
- simply don't go for those that promise #1
placement and stuff like that.
Seriously, with all the sites
out there vying for #1 on Yahoo,
MSN or Google, do you really believe that all those
companies can REALLY deliver the top spot? Sure,
with sponsored ads maybe but not through organic
url submission.
So the choices are yours..
You can add your url with some hours of work, use
free listings or a paid service. Just depends upon
whether you want to spend money, time, or both when
promoting your web site.
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