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I have just built my website, I am a total novice and have only ahd a pc for the last few months. I would love it if someone could perhaps offer their time to help me submit to search engines and optimize my site. Even these phrases are new to me! I would really appreciate it, help and advice really needed. I just don't understand spiders, crawlers etc but would like to optimize my site and take the advice you folks may be able to offer before I actually sumit to the likes of google etc, but I do need to submit as soon as possible. I am in the UK.
Here are the URLs for submitting to Google, Yahoo and MSN respectively:
[google.com ]
[submit.search.yahoo.com ] -> click "Free URL submission"
However, your page will often be indexed quicker if you can get one inbound link from a page Google (or Yahoo/MSN) already indexes.
As for site optimization, the best place to start is webmasterworld. Try searching this site using Google e.g. site:www.webmasterworld.com search engine optimization basics [google.com]
Here are a few good ones for starters:
The one piece of advice that I would give is - be prepared to have a lot of patience. I have heard stories of people having a site up and running for months before the spiders include them in their web!
I am not sure how much the actual submission of your URL to people such as Google really makes - the most important thing as far as they are concerned is how relevant your site is.
As you will see in other posts on this site it really will help to get an inbound link (as Arran says). That, like the relevance issue is not easy when you are starting out. Participation in on-line forums is good start - so you are on the right track.
I, like you, are pretty new to this game and I encourage you to read all you can in the forums on this site. Some of the terms will be new to you, but they will make more sense as time goes on. Remember a lot of the folks contributing here have been at it for a long time. I learn something each time I log-on.
Good Luck
TF
It may take a while, but it is worth being there.
Tabitha x
yeah. Don't do it. Just get inbound links
indeed, with Google if you don't have at least one inbound link from a site already in the Google index submitting your site is a waste of time.
When I was a "freshman" in this field, I am not a guru even now :-) , I had the same worries. Too many things need to know. Doing everything manually is too slow and inefficient since you need to make your SE campaigns work asap.
A SEO tool or software may help you greatly at the beginning. If you are interested, I can introduce you the one I used at that time. Send me private message.
Good luck
