A Must for Blogger: Submit Your URL to Major Search Engine

Search engine will not automatically index your website in their search engine once your web site launch. If you wait for the search engine to find and indexed your entire site, you probably will wait forever. You have to work with Search Engine, not against them. You should admit that Search Engine is the major factor that drive you lots of traffic.

To let the search engine to know your website is very easy. All you have to do just submits your web site URLs to the search engine but this may take days or weeks, even months for waiting the search engine sent the spider to crawl your website. Note that submits URLs to search engine is only store your page in the search engine database and it will not rank your site. You got to do many work after you submits your URLs in order to climb higher in the search engine result.

Though there are thousands of search engine out there, it’s doesn’t mean you should submits to all of them. You only need to submit these three free major search engines is enough because they are over 90% people using these search engines in looking for something. Don’t look for services like the plague “submit to all 1000 Search Engine”. Some of these services may need you to pay. Avoid it! These services will not help and will send spam to your mail inbox.

All you have to do is submit your URLs to these main Search Engines below:

Google
http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

MSN
http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx
How can you tell a spider has visit your website

You will need to wait days or weeks for the search engine sent spider visit your site. Spider is a program that Search Engine use to crawls your website content and bring back to their database. To know if the spider has come or not, you will have to check at your web host account regarding to your web site log files (normally in the statistic log). The Spider has a name. For Google’s spider called “googlebot”, Yahoo is called “Slurp”, and MSN is called “msnbot”.
How can you tell your website has indexed?

Well, you can check by the search engine you have submitted. Once your URLs have been indexed, you will see a list of every page of your website. Every Search Engine has it own way to check, for:

Google
Key in “site:www.yourdomain.com” (without the quote) in the search engine.

Yahoo
just key in “http://www.yourdomain.com” (without the quote) in the search engine.

MSN
Key in “site:www.yourdomain.com” (without the quote) in the search engine.

If your website not indexed after 6-8 weeks, you will have to resubmit again to the search engine. No need to check it frequently. Check for the result twice a week is well enough.

You can also submits url to some directories website.

I Like To Call It An Art

Search engine optimization, (also known in the industry as SEO) is the art of using search engines to bring or draw traffic to your or somebody else’s web site. Here’s the dictionary definition of SEO: “The term used to describe the marketing technique of preparing a website to enhance its chances of being ranked in the top results of a search engine once a relevant search is undertaken. A number of factors are important when optimising a website, including the content and structure of the website’s copy and page layout, the HTML meta-tags and the submission process.”

Many professionals, who like to use fancy words, refer to SEO as search engine marketing. The goal of SEO is to attain a higher ranking in search engines and directories then your competition. One does this via changes to site coding to make it more relevant and therefore more search engine compatible.

Here’s an amazing statistic. Did you know that 81% of Internet users rely on search engines and directories to find the information they need? Wow! Do you think that ranking highly in search engines and directories should be critical to your Internet marketing strategy…I do

This great study shows how Internet Consumers Find Web Sites*:
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Search engines: 81%
Link from another site: 59%
Viral marketing (word of mouth): 56%
TV: 48%
Guessed URL: 41%
Online advertising: 20%
Radio: 19%
Direct mail: 10%
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* Source: Forrester Research Inc.

Unfortunately or fortunately (if it’s your competition not doing this) many online businesses fail to address the importance of search engines, building their site without any regard to search engine compatibility at all. That’s quite unbelievable actually given all the great SEO programs out there today.
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Skyfher Optimize Your Blog For The Best Search Engine Results

If you are interested in trying to make money from your blog, you probably want to know how you can best optimize your blog for great search engine results. After all, most people stumble upon blogs when doing a search for something. If you use these optimization tips effectively, it may be your blog more people are drawn to. So, check these tips out and experiment with your own blog. Note what has the best results and stay with it. Change the other things around a bit until you get the results out of them that you want.

Simple Content

Many experts say that the best way to optimize your blog is to keep everything very simple. You can choose one quality content topic and make it your base. Then from there you can use variations of the topic in order to keep everything going. This may seem like a broad and useless tip, but once you get into blogging more and more, you understand how important it is.

Put More Out There

If you are trying to get more of a presence on search engines, be sure that you have something to show. The more content you have, the more likely you are to show up on a search engine. Bigger sites always do better than smaller sites. It is simply a numbers game. Search engines will see your site in a different manner, depending on how much content you have. The more content you have, the more there is a chance there will be that someone will stumble onto your site.

Ask Search Engines for Help

Few people know that you can actually submit your site to search engines. Submit your site’s URL and ask to be put into the index. This can take a while, but if they do list you in the index, you will see a larger increase in traffic. Beware however of a service that asks for money in exchange for getting your sites into search engines. These can be a little misleading at times. There are ways to do this without needing to pay anyone at all.


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Using Search Engine Promotion as an Internet Marketing Strategy

Internet marketing is all about getting visitors to your site by increasing your rankings in various search engines. Every search engine does have its own particular method of how pages are ranked, how keywords are tracked and used, and how pages are presented to those who are using the search engine to start with. Internet marketers are finding that selling online is becoming quite popular, and if you want to get a bigger piece of the pie, the money pie, you need to do marketing yourself and increase traffic to your site.

Internet marketing strategies should include methods of turning your pages into something your visitors will really want to read that will inform them, and persuade them into making a purchase from your site. All types of marketing strategies are out there for brick and mortar businesses, but the online world is a little different. Type in a word in any search engine, and thousands of pages will pop up. Where will your site be in all those pages?


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Searching Simultaneously with Google and Yahoo

Who is the best Yahoo or Google? John say he loves to search on Google only, Mary’s vote goes to Yahoo. What about you? You love both! Me too If you search both Google and Yahoo simultaneously you will be surely come out with some innovative results that you have never before. The results will be something more than that exactly you are looking for.

Google offers more technical results but Yahoo has more business oriented results to display. Google may have a better search technology and more creative tools but Yahoo has also improved its search engines by creating a new Search Assist Tool. Both of them have different strategies and algorithms while displaying the search results but the results displayed by both yahoo and Google are more or less the same. It might be happen the URL displayed by Google on top is the third or second position holder in the yahoo results but in 90% cases they display same results for the similar search query.


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Search Engines: Understand in a Better Way

Search engines are the most valuable discovery of this century acting as a bridge between millions of web pages and web users. It is really impossible to imagine web world without search engines. Millions of web pages will be converted into a chaotic disordered jungle without search engines. Useful websites may be hidden from the users and what information received will be of no use. Search engines work non stop to gather valuable information underlying in the million of web pages scattered on the internet.

Search Engine: Various Aspects

Visitors Point of View (Trying to Find Better Results)
Users enter the specific search query in the search box provided by search engines. Search engines perform their search and display all the relevant results found in the search engine directories.

Websites Understanding of Search Engines (To Provide Better Results)
Websites always want to be included in results of the search engines and get listed in the top 20 results by the search engines. Automated search engine spiders crawls the web by links. If a website qualifies on the certain search engine parameters it will indexed by the search engines.


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