Getting Listed On Search Engines
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Getting listed on search engines is by
far the most affordable way to drive traffic to your website.
I feel that it's also the most effective because the search engine
is creating legitimacy for you by listing your website.
Before I get any further I want to
say that getting listed on a search engine is a lot
different than ranking well on a search engine. You
could be listed on page 50 of a search engine and you
should expect basically no traffic from that listing. At
that point you'll need to start
optimizing your
website for search engines. Getting listed is just
the start.
The Top Search Engines
The top search engines that you'll want to get
listed on are Google.com, Yahoo.com and MSN.com. These are the
search engines that'll drive the most traffic to your website. Of
the 3 listed above Google will provide you with the most traffic of
all.There are some second tier search
engines that you'll want to ensure that you're listed on such as
DogPile.com, Ask.com, AltaVista.com and LookSmart.com.
There are others but the traffic from them is
minimal but you'll still want to get listed because it certainly
won't hurt.
How Do I Submit My Website To The Top Search
Engines
Each search engine offers a URL to submit your
website to them for free. It's important that you're site be
completed and optimized for
search engines though. Otherwise they'll simply 'crawl' your
website and not list it.Although
submitting your website to search engines is an option I've covered
some better options below. These methods seem to work better because
they all involve being linked to from other websites so it builds
legitimacy to the search engines.
Below are the URL's to list your websites for
free.
Additional Ways To Get Listed On Search
Engines
I'm going to cover a couple of additional ways to
get listed on search engines. I prefer the 1st method because the
listing is natural, not a manual submission. The second method is
also great but can take some time to get listed.
The way that I prefer to get listed on search
engines, primarily Google, is by them finding my site via another
website's link to my website. The idea is to find a website that's
already listed on Google and request that they link to your website.
When Google crawls their website the next time Google will follow
this link and potentially index your website.
Another method is to get listed in a
directory. The most effective directory is
DMOZ.org, this
directory is managed by human editors so it can take some time to
get listed. If the editor of the category doesn't feel that you're
site offers anything beneficial to the directory they simply won't
add your website.
The thing about DMOZ.org is that Google looks
highly upon listings that are found on DMOZ so it's important to get
listed there. It's not going to break you if you don't get listed
but it certainly helps if you do.
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