adding website to search engines?

cresbella

Thanks for that excellent advice, any more tips?

Bob63

cresbella wrote:

Thanks for that excellent advice, any more tips?

Get some other sites linking to yours. Google's page ranking algorithm rates a page partly be the number of other sites on the internet that link to it.

Also, make sure that navigation within your pages is easy for a robot to follow i.e. avoid javascript menus unless you also provide simple text links. I have done this on my own site by putting text links to every page at the bottom of the page so that web crawlers can easily explore my site. It seems to work.

Mike

fricaso

It might be worth having a search map page showing all your internal links . Make sure you have a links page and search google for sites to exchange links with - if your is a sweet shop search for chocolate for example . Also try and get some incoming links (ie ones you don't link out to) - if you have interest content people might want to link to you so create some banners on a link to us page. Good luck.

dickibobboy

my forum is the top on on google already with the search technicalchat and its only been up a week still like it to come up under technical chat but i suppose it takes time.... done the dmoz thing, how many sections shall i list it under or can i only do one?(just incase the dicide to take it off because i have submitted it allover) and done the google sitemaps and a few off of the big page of search engins.. thankyou

save-a-lot

Hi

Be very careful when submitting to dmoz, the site has to be finished and no under construction pages etc. Editors are vetted to take on a category, the process of becoming an editor is strict. So, this means that the site you offer up to dmoz has to add value to the directory as a whole. So they are very picky.

There is no real need to submit to search engines, and never ever pay someone to do this for you, you'd be wasting your money. Search engine spiders will find your site if you get back links. Talking of backlinks, make the anchor text relevant to your site, i.e. I run a broadband comparison site so I would use a phrase like "Compare broadband providers" as the active link. On the landing page I would optimise the page with this same term. That will help eventually bring in some traffic. Vary the anchor text over time to get back links that target different phrases.

Hope that helps some more