Tips
If you want to Submit and Include (SAI) your site to the search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a MUST!
- Why can't I find my website in the search engines?
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Once you have successfully completed the Search Engine Submission Process, our submission to the 3000 search engines takes about 10 business days to finish. Afterwards, a search engine company can take upwards of 6 weeks to index your URL (website address). The final step is the placement of your URL inside of the search engine's keyword ranking. Your websites ranking is determined by various different factors; content relevance (how well your website explains and details any given subject), link popularity (how many other different webpages are linking to yours), and overall website appearance (how well formatted your site actually looks).
- How will I know if my submissions are successful ?
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We will send you a report after the completion of each submission cycle. For further confirmation, just visit www.msn.com or www.aol.com, and enter your full domain name (example: "www.cnn.com") in the search entry box.
- Will my entire site be indexed or just the front page ?
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Search Engines have programs called spiders, or crawlers. These spiders will come to the URL that you submit and follow all the links on that page, then all the links on those pages, and so on. This will add all the pages you have linked on your Website to the search engines database. Then when people conduct a search, the page on your site most relevant to what they searched for should appear in the search results.
- How do search engines rank sites ?
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Whenever you use a search engine, you're asking the search engine to sort through the millions of Web sites it has indexed, and try to find those sites that are related to your search words. Once the relevant sites are selected, the search engine will then rank these sites in order of relevancy - using a formula that varies for each search engine. As a Website owner, there's a lot that you can do to improve the chances that a search engine will recommend your site. One of the areas to focus on is Meta tags.
- What are Meta Tags and why are they so important ?
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The importance of Meta tags for your web site can't be emphasized enough. A search engine doesn't read through your page to index you site - it usually uses keywords and short phrases.
- What Meta tags should I add to my Website ?
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1. Title: The title is probably the most important part of your site to evaluate, as it is the most frequently searched component by search engines, and should state exactly what your site is about, without use of any superlatives. To get high rankings, the title must include your most important keywords. Example of a Title: "Dave's Interior Designs - Decorating the Inside of England's Homes".
2. Keywords: The Meta Tag Keywords should be those words or phrases that you think people will use when trying to look for a site like yours on search engines.Incorporating keywords in your site's body text - To rank high on search results your Website must have a focus and the text should emphasize it. Incorporate many Meta tags within your site's first paragraphs (50 words) and repeat them throughout the text. The right keywords for your Website should be specific enough to describe your Website's interest, yet general enough for potential customers to use as search phrase in the search engines.
3. Description: Your Web site description should be around 20 words summary of the content of your site. This description should contain some of the keywords and be sure to avoid marketing language. Example of Description: "A full service provider of interior design services - decorating, painting, furniture, and color schemes for your house". - What Keywords should I use ?
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If you are not sure about what words best describe your site, look at it from the user's perspective. How would they find your site ? What search words make sense ? The keywords you choose will dictate the success of your web site promotion. It is unrealistic that a young and unrecognized web site can compete on rankings with popular destinations on generic key words such as "computers" or "travel". Make sure that your keywords are not too general. General keywords will bring up thousands of listings to searchers and your site is unlikely to be on top. The fact is that people don't usually use a single word, such as "software" or "dentist" to find what they want in search engines. Users are more likely to search for something more specific like "Accounting Software for Small Business", or "Dentists in Washington DC". You have a much higher chance on ranking high on specific keywords related to your site. If you would like to rank high on search engines, avoid excessive keyword repetition (no more than 3 repetitions). Also, note the practice of keyword derivatives. For example, if you developed a Website concerning mutual funds, you might use keywords like invest, invests, investment, and investor. Finally, be sure to include your domain name, company name, and product's name in the keywords.
TIP: Always include at least 10 keywords or phrases that are most relevant to your site (starting from the most important ones) but not more than 25. - Using Framesets
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Framesets are commonly used on websites for many reasons. Perhaps the biggest reason for using a frameset is to separate the main content of the website and the navigation menu. Framesets will enable you to display multiple pages at the same time on the same screen, which may be of convenience to the visitor.
There are compatibility issues between search engines, old web browsers and framesets. Search engines have a hard time reading framesets, and older browsers are incapable of displaying them. Accordingly, we encourage you to refrain from using framesets wherever possible.
What If I Use Framesets?
- Expanding Input Boxes, Text Fields and Submit button
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You can easily expand the area taken up by these objects by clicking on their borders and dragging them. This will allow you to provide a larger field for your visitor to enter information. The Input Box will only expand left and right but the Text Field can be expanded in all directions, same with the Submit Button.