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Search Engine Basics

Tips and tricks to help you achieve better page rankings.

In my spare time, ( like I have any) apart from my day job as a professional webmaster or when I'm not writing for this site, I volunteer some of my time to the Zeal community. Zeal is part of LookSmart, Ltd. Zeal community members and LookSmart editors collaborate on the Zeal site to and increase the significance of their contributions to the Web through LookSmart's powerful distribution network. When sites are published on Zeal, they are distributed to many of the most important media portals in the world, including MSN, AltaVista, Excite, and hundreds of ISPs. My submissions help to build one of the best hand built directory's in the world, its fun, and I have the opportunity to see a lot of sites. I've submitted hundreds, and I've  looked at each and every one Prior to adding it in.

As an editor for one of the top search engines, your given the task of insuring many different things prior to a site being indexed. Some examples would be, dose the content of the site, match the title and description in the the submission, or dose the submission conforms to guidelines, dose the sites content conform to guidelines? So I look at each site. I also have the opportunity to rate the site, and write a byline on it.

The submission for the text that appears in the directory, (the text that describes the page or the site) has to be edited as well. looking at the actual page helps me to determine many of these things, along with using other software and tools, that Zeal provides me with online.

The reason I'm telling you all this is that one of the worst things you can do is to submit your site to early or before its ready. If your not ready then back up and get ready first. There are so many things to consider like robots.txt files, meta tags, labeling through irca.org , page titles, content, keywords and so much more to get ready. Make sure your sites ready BEFORE you submit it to the search engines. 

Once you have your site prepared, meta tags in place, and its in your opinion ready to be submitted then you'll want to use this page.

Submitting Your Site

The following links will take you to the respective search engine or directories submission page, or to their "how to" page, or maybe the home page, hehe  but most likely it'll get you started and you'll soon see how easy it is to get your self listed with several search engines very quickly, and submitted correctly to.

You'll want to start with what I believe to be the Number One Free Resource on the Planet. Certainly one of the most used -  http://www.google.com/addurl

Search Links collected over the years, if you find one that doesn't work or you know of on we are missing please email us and let us know.