Forum Moderators: mack
very new to this game, what is the best way to get a site picked up when someone searches for it, who to use etc, I take it most work from keywords.
Many thanks in anticipation
W
Personally I don't bother submiting or paying for inclusion in the SEs. I have found that it is much more effective to work on links to your site. Spend some time going through the Link Development section of this forum to learn how.
You will find that keywords are not so much the 'in thing' anymore. Now it seems that it is more of a content and topic based game, if you spend some time reading the different sections here you will pick up on things pretty quickly.
Before you do anything though, read this [webmasterworld.com]
and Welcome to WebMasterWorld!
Try the free submit options at the various engines if you want but they don't seem to be a very reliable way of getting crawled if you don't already have incoming links.
- Tony
I tend to ignore the search engines at first and concentrate all my efforts into building good quality inbound links, web directories and niche sites are a great place to start. You will then notice that as the sites that link to you get spidered, the crawler will follow links pointing to your site.
Getting indexed properly can take some time, but is very worth it long term.
There are loads of services out there offering "submit your site to ****xxxxx number of search engines with one click" I think you are safer to avoid these. Long term they may do you more harm than good. Some of these services are actualy in breach of search engine terms of service.
Good luck.
Mack.
