Submitting To The Search Engines
How do I submit my site to Search Engines?
You've built up a good site, put in a lot of content, but none
of the search engines lists your site? If you'd like to know how
to go ahead with Search Engine Submission the right way, read on.
How do I get my site to be included in search-engines?
That's a question a lot of people ask me.
My question back to them is "Is your Site Search-engine ready?".
A
lot of sites don't get
spidered into search engine results just because the pages are
not search-engine friendly. Search engines like to see a lot of
text on your site. This means that if your site is filled with
Flash animations and graphics, instead of text for content, your
site probably not show up in search-engine results. Another
reason your site might be loosing out in search engine rankings
could be the lack of meta-tags.
So what are meta-tags?
Metatags are small pieces of code which
you embed into your pages which informs your search engines
about your site's contents, how to spider your site, and other
such instructions.
Most search engines look at your page's meta-tags and title tag to get the relevant information to index your site. So you should make sure that all your pages have the relevant details in meta-tags. The three most important tags for your site are 'DESCRIPTION' and 'KEYWORDS' meta-tags and the 'Title' tag on all pages.
* The 'DESCRIPTION' tag is used to describe the contents of the page.You should enter a short description of the page in this tag. Here's how the tag will look when you enter the description of the page:
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Tips on how to submit your web site to search engines.">
The 'KEYWORDS' tag is used to tell the search engine which
keywords words you feel are important in the page. This helps in
the ranking process of search engines. In your keywords tag, use
as many combinations of your search term as you can, without
repeating the same terms too many times. Some search engines
penalize a site for repeating keywords. Here's how a keywords
tag would look :
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Search
Engine Optimization,
submit, site, metatags, meta-tags, SEO, submission, tag">
Every page you have on your site should have a Title tag. All search engines use the content of your title tag to index the content of your site. So make sure you've got a Title tag and the Title has some relevance to the content in your page. An example of the title tag :
<title>How to submit your site </title>
So, once you've entered your tags properly, your start of the
HTML code for the page should look like this :
<html> <head> <title>How to submit your site </title>
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Tips on how to submit your web site to search engines.">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Search Engine Optimization, submit, site, metatags, meta-tags, SEO, submission, tag">
</head>
These
three tags by themselves should give a boost to your ranking once
the search engine crawls your site. If you want a
tool to make the tags for you, check out my Meta-Tag Generator
Script at: http://www.vinuthomas.com/gate.html?name=MetaMaker.
This online tool helps you generate the basic and some advanced
meta-tags for your pages.
Now how do you get the search engine to crawl your site?
You'll have to start submitting your site to the search-engines for them to start crawling your site. Here are the Submission URL's for some of the major search engines:
About the author:
Vinu Thomas is a consultant on Web design and Internet
Technologies. His website is http://www.vinuthomas.com. You can
read more articles on Search Engine Tips @
http://www.vinuthomas.com/sections-listarticles-8.html
A Full List of the Major Search Engines:
http://www.traffic-n-more.com/search_engines.htm
