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I am new to the line of site submission with search engines and have been doing a lot of research over the past 3 days. I have come accross various articles and threads in this forum listing the engines and directories to be submitted.
One clarification that I need is - "Shall I submit all pages in my website to both Search engines and the Directories" or "shall I stick to submiting only the home page" or "Is there a combination that - submit only home page to Goolge and to directories...... but sumit all pages to other search engines".
My sites are quite new and will not be having any good rating to start with. So this is a concern that i need to answer soon.
Regards
You only need to submit your first page and the rest of your site will get added after a time (depends on the next deep crawl and you just missed this one).
Make sure each page has its own title tag or you'll have trouble getting them on there.
Simon.
example sitemap.html
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/yourpage.php">Use a keyword and title to describe this page</a>
so on and so forth.
I would also recommend using FQDN for url/uri's
This helped me get everything spidered by google and also gave google some direction in spidering some of my dynamic content since i was able to map some kind of information to the wacky url's you can get from cgi/php scripts.
"Shall I submit all pages in my website to both Search engines and the Directories"
Not at all for search engines. They won't index you until there are links to your pages anyway, so you can go for them immediately. It's against the TOS of most directories to submit deep links.
Hi. (This is my first post.) I have seen this advice before, so I just looked up the definition of "site map". I have a link to every page, on all pages of my site (i.e. a clickable index down the left side) - is this a simple type of site map?
I've got 25 or so pages, but the index has a sort of "hierarchical" structure with main subject page links (all caps), and subpage links under them, indented slightly. Hard to describe, but it looks straightforward.
Would that be good enough? I hope Google would look at those links and then spider those pages. Or would it be better to have the site map page anyway, because of the descriptions you suggest including?
Cheers,
Kath
I guess so.
What you are lacking in terms of a sitemap:
- Short Description for every link.
- The sitemap as a page itself (that can be ranked)
If every page of your site is only two clicks away this is of advantage.
