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I have many ideas on the sites i want to build. The first one im building will be a I know the obvious thing is to submit the site to google and other search engines, but what are the other ways? I have been browsing the forum but cant find too much info on this, and i only really see going to dirrectories, but it seems alot of people are saying most of those sites are dead. Please help me out and thanks alot for reading this. Sorry if i posted this in the wrong forum! wasnt quite sure where to post it
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If you want to submit your site to SEs you may use the submission form every engine has. Very often this is a long time process with no guarantee you will be approved.
I do not know if it's a better option but I use a different way. I use reciprocal links and I think this is the main benefit of reciprocal linking. If I exchange links with siteA already indexed by, say, Google, when Google will come again to visit siteA, it will find a link pointing to my site and will spider it. It's the natural way SEs work.
What I do:
1. I make a list with my keywords
2. I search main SEs using my keywords and I make a list with sites listed in top 10 or top 20 ( and agrees reciprocal linking of course)
3. Then I contact webmasters with exchange proposal
Hope it helps
Have a doulbe rainbow day
At the other end of the spectrum are all those sites out there that have no links pointed at them. If no one bothers to link to them they probably are not very important, much less findable.
Getting links not only makes the search engines think your site is important, but they make your site important.
Keyterms are the words people use at search engines when they are looking for something. Say you had a site about smelly widgets, then "smelly widgets" would be one of your keyterms, perhaps "pungent widgets" would work as well.
When getting links to your site you should use the keyterms relevant to your site as the anchor text of the link, and have those links point to relevant pages on your site, such that "smelly widgets" pointed to your domain.com/smelly-widgets.html page and "pungent widgets" links to your domain.com/pungent-widgets.html page. If you have more links pointing at your domain.com/smelly-widgets.html page than your competitors for the keyterm "smelly widgets" then it is likely you will rank higher in the search engines than they do for that term.
You may want to check how many backlinks your competitors have to determine how much work you have in front of you to compete on those terms.
Nine to ten years ago a lot of internet traffic went from site to site via the links between documents. Today, most people use search engines to find relevant documents they are looking for.
Also note that having really great and original content aids tremendously when getting links.
Be aware that submitting to the search engines like Google is pointless. Yes, they have a submit site link, but they'll ignore your submission unless they see that someone else is linking to you. And if they see that others are linking to you, they'll spider you whether you submit your site on their submit site page or not. I've never submitted a site to any of the search engines and they've all been spidered just fine.
Directories you want to submit to. They're one way to get those first incoming links. Then you can work on reciprocal links.
One word of warning, though:
>>I have many ideas on the sites i want to build.<<
Don't get caught up in working on too many ideas at once. I've seen far too many people approach their first site with lots of big ideas swimming around in their heads. They jump around from idea to idea (either working on multiple sites at once or dropping what they're doing to give whatever new idea for promotion a try before they've completed working on the last one) and end up getting a lot of things started but nother ever finished.
Avoid getting into the trap of focusing on lofty goals with no firm plan of how to get there. Pick one site idea and work on that until you get it producing for you. Don't let new ideas pull you off of that site. And determine attainable steps to get that site done, steps that allow you to complete something on your checklist every day.
I've found that if people focus on distant goals with no step-by-step plan on how to reach them, they just wander around in the general vicinity of where they are and never come anywhere close to their goals.
Maybe you've already got your plan in place, but if you don't, make sure you get one.
