Using Search Engines to Promote Your Website
We all know the big players when it comes to search engines. Yahoo!, Google, Bing and MSN are just a few. Getting pages listed and ranked on those search engines is important to promoting your website. Sometimes it can happen automatically, but sometimes it takes a little work on your part.
Search engines have what are known as “crawlers.” These are programs that go out on the internet to find sites that have not yet been indexed by the search engine. If you build your site well, you can sometimes get your site ranked well in search results produced by a web crawler. Using keywords properly is essential to getting ranked by a search engine. Keywords are what an internet user is likely to type in when searching for something specific. The closer your keywords match the most common ones searched for the better your site will rank. Keyword phrases are better than single words. Positioning these phrases is also important. Putting the keyword phrase in the HTML title tag, the page titles, and high on the page in the content, will also help you with your search engine ranking. Put them in headlines and in the early part of the text on each page. Each page should have different keywords that are specific to the information on that particular page.
Another way to promote your website with the search engines is to submit your link to each search engine directly. There are a number of services available who will submit your information for you, some for free, but most for a fee. You can also manually submit your information to the engines yourself. Sometimes they simply require you to fill out a form, but sometimes they also require a fee, depending on how you want your site to rank and how quickly. Visit each search engine you’re interested in to find out how to submit directly to them.
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