Website search engine submission

smanhead1

I have just made a website for a local charity. How do i submit my website to search engines for free or at little cost as possible. Thanks.

martindow

I would use Google sitemaps to be sure all of your pages are spidered
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en_GB/about.html
There is now a common standard using robots.txt that is used by Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask. You can generate a sitemap with this
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Then just submit your homepage to each of the search engines

BritBrat

You can get programes to do it, but best just to go to the major ones and find the links for entering the site URL.

It does take a while for them to start after you have done it.

Also look at your site headers and include search words that relate to the area the site is trying to atract.

Just brain storm and enter anything thats relevant.

Another trick some sites use is to have list of names ect in very small text and the same colour as the background so you dont see it unless you scroll mouse over page, then the seach engines pick up those words, but doing that trick is a little naughty.

rick@findthatfuchsia

Register on dmoz.org - All the major search engines collect information from them - and it is free !!

martindow

BritBrat wrote: »

Another trick some sites use is to have list of names ect in very small text and the same colour as the background so you dont see it unless you scroll mouse over page, then the seach engines pick up those words, but doing that trick is a little naughty.

I would strongly recommend not doing this (if you wish to get listed by search engines!)

smanhead1

Thank you for all your help.

save-a-lot

BritBrat wrote: »

Another trick some sites use is to have list of names ect in very small text and the same colour as the background so you dont see it unless you scroll mouse over page, then the seach engines pick up those words, but doing that trick is a little naughty.

Look up Google's T&Cs, you will get yourself removed from the index

Google_T&Cs wrote:

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
Don't send automated queries to Google.
Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

from http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

then consider how Google feeds other SE's and directories...
http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm

dmoz.org is good as it 'feeds' most directories, and it is syndicated on many websites (I used to syndicate it on one of mine for example) - so one link there gets you many from dmoz itself and all the syndicate sites. dmoz is REALLY hard to get into though... it is maintained by volunteers and on occassion the category you want to get your site into has either no editor, or a totally inactive editor.

Fortyfoot

I have set up a website using Microsoft Office Live and have done pages on the site for friends. Is it possible to submit different pages to the search engines?

Thanks

Fortyfoot