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Does anyone have any advice on website submission ?
thanks
JacquieCC
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Andrew Murray
Submision to what? (please be more specific)
Assuming you mean "Submission to search engines": publish the site, and the
search engines will eventually visit your site index & list it on the their
server eg google, yahoo etc.
Of course, you can also manually do this through individual search engines -
altavista, google, yahoo, msn etc. There are also services that can submit
the site to 100's of search sites at one hit.
However this doesn't mean you'll get an immediate listing (it wont happen
overnight, but it will happen) since it takes time for the servers to
obviously process and sort and index the submissions they receive.
To gain as high a listing as possible (as will everyone else in the world
that has a site containing the same subject matter yours does) is to write
the content of the site including keywords and phrases people may or will be
likely to search for.
The meta description & keywords tags these days are ignored, the search
engine spiders crawl entire sites, so the content quality matters a great
deal more than a few keywords.
Also, if you use a lot of images or flash animation or java applets (or
similar objects), this will reduce your listing as search engines don't
recognise those types of objects even those containing words - the spiders
crawl a site's plain text content.
Hope these few tips help, I'm sure other members have other ideas.
Assuming you mean "Submission to search engines": publish the site, and the
search engines will eventually visit your site index & list it on the their
server eg google, yahoo etc.
Of course, you can also manually do this through individual search engines -
altavista, google, yahoo, msn etc. There are also services that can submit
the site to 100's of search sites at one hit.
However this doesn't mean you'll get an immediate listing (it wont happen
overnight, but it will happen) since it takes time for the servers to
obviously process and sort and index the submissions they receive.
To gain as high a listing as possible (as will everyone else in the world
that has a site containing the same subject matter yours does) is to write
the content of the site including keywords and phrases people may or will be
likely to search for.
The meta description & keywords tags these days are ignored, the search
engine spiders crawl entire sites, so the content quality matters a great
deal more than a few keywords.
Also, if you use a lot of images or flash animation or java applets (or
similar objects), this will reduce your listing as search engines don't
recognise those types of objects even those containing words - the spiders
crawl a site's plain text content.
Hope these few tips help, I'm sure other members have other ideas.
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Tom Willett
Submission to what?
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Guest
Sorry!
Submission to search engines - some people have told me to put in meta tags
- whereas others say they are really used any more by search engines as does
Andy Murray. Is it worth paying a search engine submission compnay to do
this - does it get done any quicker? I mean - can they jump the queues?
Submission to search engines - some people have told me to put in meta tags
- whereas others say they are really used any more by search engines as does
Andy Murray. Is it worth paying a search engine submission compnay to do
this - does it get done any quicker? I mean - can they jump the queues?
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Andrew Murray
The search engine company would still submit the site, but that is
regardless of whether you use the meta tags "description" and "keywords".
Like I said, the search engines visit your site (rather than you having to
wait for the submission to take effect), so eventually your site will get
listed on search engines (give it weeks, months since these search sites
would be flat out indexing every one of 250,000,000 sites on the web or
more, so be patient.
This issue has been discussed before, that is where I got my info about the
meta tags being ignored, and search engines these days indexing the entire
site; so it is important to structure your content well.
Since you can submit your own site, why pay for someone else to do it?
regardless of whether you use the meta tags "description" and "keywords".
Like I said, the search engines visit your site (rather than you having to
wait for the submission to take effect), so eventually your site will get
listed on search engines (give it weeks, months since these search sites
would be flat out indexing every one of 250,000,000 sites on the web or
more, so be patient.
This issue has been discussed before, that is where I got my info about the
meta tags being ignored, and search engines these days indexing the entire
site; so it is important to structure your content well.
Since you can submit your own site, why pay for someone else to do it?
J
Joe Rohn
Andrew Murray said:The search engine company would still submit the site, but that is
regardless of whether you use the meta tags "description" and "keywords".
Like I said, the search engines visit your site (rather than you having to
wait for the submission to take effect), so eventually your site will get
listed on search engines (give it weeks, months since these search sites
would be flat out indexing every one of 250,000,000 sites on the web or
more, so be patient.
This issue has been discussed before, that is where I got my info about
the meta tags being ignored, and search engines these days indexing the
entire site; so it is important to structure your content well.
At this point I would agree that using the meta for keywords is probably at
best a waste of time...however there are a number of Search Engines that
still use the meta for description, and I would think including a good
description (that compliments the text on your page) is still worth doing.
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Joe
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