Submitting
your site to the worldNow that you have a killer site,
you want to let everyone know where it is. There are many
ways to do this:
- Search
Engines - These are sites that record your
site information in their databases and then if
someone searches for a specific keyword, and that
keyword is found on your homepage, then you will
be displayed on the results page. Some of these
are Infoseek & Lycos. Go to their site, click
on the add URL button, and fill out the
information. This will send out a web spider to
go to your site and record the information on
your page into their databases.
- Web
Page Directories - These directories list
homepages by categories. Examples are Yahoo &
Big Yellow. To list your site here, still go to
the site and click on the add URL button. You may
have more information to fill out, but it is
needed to place you in the right spot.
- Submission
Sites - These sites will ask for your
information once and then submit that information
to multiple search engines & directories at
the same time. This is a faster way to saturate
the web with your site, but isn't as accurate as
doing it manually for each one. One of these
sites is Submit-It.
- Submission
Services - There are many places or companies
that offer to submit your site to 100's of search
engines & directories for a small fee. This
is the most effective way to submit your site and
is always worth the money. Most of these provide
a list of sites you have been submitted to and
when. One place that can do this is AAA Internet
Promotions.
- Newsgroups
- Anytime you have a new site, it's a good idea
to jump on your news program and search for
related newgroups. Post a small note with the
details on your site. This posing will be deleted
after a week or so, but it's a good way to get
the work out.
Some search
engines search the first 250 words of your HTML page so
it is a good idea to put in keywords or a description of
your site into you web page. If you would like to do
this, but don't want this information visible, put these
two META commands in your HEAD tags:
- <HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Web Page Title</TITLE>
<META NAME="description"
Content="Put your web site description
here.">
<META NAME="keywords"
Content="Put all your keywords here,
separated by commas.">
</HEAD>
By doing this
on your homepage (index.html) you can get
"seen" more by the search engines and more
people will hit your site.
