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greenthumb

9:50 pm on Mar 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

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For clients who don't want to pay for premium positioning, I submit their url/urls to google and dmoz.org.

I have their metatags in place on every page too.

Where else would you submit (for free)?

sem4u

9:58 pm on Mar 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Gigablast and Searchippo are two more.

greenthumb

3:00 am on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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i always use a metasentence and keywords. I started using a tag to name my company the author. Would you say that's pretty good?

And if I wanted to pay for premium positioning, where do you think that best deal is?

sem4u

8:27 am on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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i always use a metasentence and keywords. I started using a tag to name my company the author. Would you say that's pretty good?

I would use the meta description and keywords tags. I don't bother with anything else except the title tag.

And if I wanted to pay for premium positioning, where do you think that best deal is?

Are you talking about sponsored links? If so I would use AdWords and Overture.

greenthumb

3:20 pm on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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what I mean by premium positioning is paying google to make sure you're first in the stack for certain search words (for example)...

Adwords and --- for that...

ritch_b

3:25 pm on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Always worth submitting to:

Yahoo search
Infotiger
Jayde (for B2B sites)
SearchUno (if you've a UK site)
Mirago (UK based sites again!)

On the question of what to add to each page, good and relevant title, description and keywords tags are all that's really necessary. Pretty much every other type of meta tag is obsolete.

R.

greenthumb

6:58 pm on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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"Gigablast and Searchippo are two more."

These 2 appear to require payment or membership...?

greenthumb

6:59 pm on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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i found alot of info in another section of this site as well. thanks.

ritch_b

11:34 pm on Mar 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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These 2 appear to require payment or membership...?

Not the case.

Gigablast is free to submit to, although the 'add url' page is temporarily out of action as I type this.

SearchHippo is also free, but does require you to sign up as there's a username and password for each listing. The SearchHippo approach is fairly unique for a free directory listing service and the info on the site explains why you need to sign up, even though it's a free service.

R.

steelegbr

6:54 pm on Mar 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

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One I use sometimes is Zeal but you have to register and your listing has to be processed but I have had no problems getting listings.

ritch_b

11:36 pm on Mar 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Remember to bear in mind that free submissions through Zeal are only possible for non-commercial sites.

Commercial sites must be submitted through parent site Looksmart, which is chargable.

R.