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| Thread ID: 65581 | 2006-01-23 07:17:00 | How to effectively submit your website to search engines for free? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 423531 | 2006-01-23 20:27:00 | Is it not the case that you should make your site attractive to search engines rather than thinking of submitting it to them? Your site *will* be found by the search engines but if it is simply a dead end it has little chance of rising to the first two or three results pages (how many people go further than this when searching???) Remember they all have their own special system of ranking your site. Many now check what links you have to other sites and how many sites refer back to you. If you strike gold and manage to get a link to your site from say, EBay or XBox, and you have the complimentary links back then you'll start rising in the ranks. So, start getting links to your site in as many important places as you can and, put links in to those sites in your own pages. The meta tag stuff is very important; pick some short phrases which you think people will want to search on for your subject. It is no good putting just "school" in the list when possibly people will be search for "New Zealand Public School" or "Helen Clarke School House" and, target specialty words in your subsidiary page's meta tags. Don't forget to put your name in the pages, several times if possible; then hopefully people can search using your name (if you want that!) Read all the stuff you can from the links the guys posted earlier... |
manu (8770) | ||
| 423532 | 2006-01-23 20:32:00 | If you want to have a look at my website PM me and I will tell you the address - it's small, but all of the suggestions in the links I gave have been implemented and the code is really easy to read since I just used html, and since I am a rank learner, it's bog simple html coded with the book in one hand... The big thing, as the previous post emphasises, is to get your site linked to by as many other sites as possible. |
annie (6010) | ||
| 423533 | 2006-01-23 20:36:00 | Saw this ideas on the Cybe Guy too: Be sure to include your site name in the body of the site . . . it makes a big difference . Putting it in a referenced url at the bottom or a hyperlink is not sufficient . . . you gotta put the actual name of the site somewhere inside the lines . Try this on Google: enter your site name and the comma and the site name again . This is supposed to show any weaknesses in your site . . . if it doesn't get found very early on by the crawler, then you have some more work to do . That was how DogPile worked and NorthernLights too . . the would actually insert the searched-for name into the engine a second time and let it double search for cleaner results . I cannot speak [personally for Clusty, but it's meta search was supposed to be one of the best . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 423534 | 2006-01-23 20:39:00 | You know, search engines rank websites by how many *external* links point to you, so trying to fool 'em with an absurdly long list of keywords is of dubious value. Don't believe me? Search for "free sex" In other words if a million sites have the same keyword, and very few people have linked to your web site, then you'll be toward the bottom of the list. Instead of relying on keywords to get people to visit your site, I suggest creating a popular website that people want to visit. The rest will take care of itself. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 423535 | 2006-01-23 22:42:00 | There are alot of rumors about how to go about getting your website to rate with search engines. When it comes down to it though, it has alot to do with the way your site is designed - is the code clean? is your content meaningful and relevant to your keywords? There are alot of good articles around - this one (www.avatar.co.nz) is probably not a bad place to start :-) |
Mary (6534) | ||
| 423536 | 2006-01-24 00:20:00 | JamesKan, Here are all the search engions we submit to at this time: International http://www.altavista.co.nz http://www.google.co.nz http://www.yahoo.com http://www.girafa.com http://www.alexa.com New Zealand http://www.searchnz.co.nz http://www.nzsearch.co.nz http://www.anzwers.co.nz http://www.nzs.com/ http://www.nze.co.nz http://www.websearch.co.nz http://www.newzealand.co.nz http://www.nzsites.co.nz http://www.netfinder.co.nz http://www.linknz.co.nz/ Part off nzpages.co.nz http://www.nzpages.co.nz http://www.nzcentral.com http://www.netsearch.co.nz http://www.thehub.co.nz http://www.thewebdirectory.co.nz http://www.kiwipages.co.nz Hope this helps :) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 423537 | 2006-01-24 01:07:00 | And of course, the search engine people are wise to "tricks" which improve the scores of sites by exploiting the way engines work. They are wise enough to make the tricks "work" in reverse. Google take it seriously, and will ban any site trying too hard. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 423538 | 2006-01-24 03:51:00 | And of course, the search engine people are wise to "tricks" which improve the scores of sites by exploiting the way engines work. They are wise enough to make the tricks "work" in reverse. Google take it seriously, and will ban any site trying too hard. With reference to Graham's last post, including Google Bombing? To Stu, thanks for the list of search engines :D Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 423539 | 2006-01-24 04:00:00 | In Google bombing, probably not . That's because that is not (obviously, anyway) perpetrated by the site owner . (The site owners, while they probably enjoy the notoriety, would sometimes suffer from it . Some people have to pay for their outgoing bandwidth . :() And the links which give them their high scores are actually genuine; just the way they are generated is a bit dubious . The one Google jump on would be Joe's Online Pizzas trying to get top listing by planting hidden keywords etc, or hiring some consultant who guarantees "top search results" . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 423540 | 2006-01-26 22:14:00 | Just a quick tidy-up post on this thread - I took the computer to Infinite Technology in Ngaurange Gorge, Wellington, and they were really good - friendly, non-patronising (often a problem with computer places if you're an old bag, I find - I often resort to getting my daughter to paint her face and come with me to computer places and garages), good communicators, and very reasonable charges. I'd recommend them. | annie (6010) | ||
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