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How can I get my web site recognized by Search Engines and maintain that recognition?

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by tjc

Download a seach engine submission program. something like www.submitta.com or go to www.addme.com that has an online submission form. Also note that this is not a one time deal, you have to submit regularly to keep listed.

by jereg

I've tried a couple of web site submission programs and have not been really happy with them. What it comes down to, i think, is just doing it yourself. Let's face it, there are only 10-12 major search engines. A couple of those charge money, so ifyou cross them off, it's not that many, really. Once you decide what and how to submit, you can spend about an hour resubmitting your page every 2 months. It's not too hard.
Hope that helps.

by steve98

The only search engines that are worth getting your site listed are the ones that have humans manually index submissions such as yahoo.com and dmoz.org. You should also submit your site to a few other free search engines such as altavista.com, and hotbot.com. If you have a business related site, you may have to spend $200 to get list within a week in Yahoo, although it's worth it. Make sure the title, description, and keywords match the content of your site.

by armour

Using a posting service is the way to go a couple of notes on this some search engins use the web page meta tags some the first few lines of the index page and in the case of google it kewords almost the whole web page. makeing shure thet you tags reflect what your page is about or what catagory you want it to fall under is important, there are quite a few posting services searching c-net or zdnet should give you a review and witch are better.

by willow

Thanks to one and all for your response to my question. Generally all of the suggestions were helpful in one way or another. Our own experience was mostly reinforced by the feedback received. We had hoped for something new and wonderful, but it looks like we all face the same choices when we want to have our web site recognized.

1. Manual monitoring
2. Making sure we have categorized our site toward our targets properly and monitor the results.
3. If when paying for a service or software that will aid in registering a web site, choose it carefully and make certain that it does what is says it will do; and continue to manually monitor the results.
4. Don't assume whatever you do will guarantee to meet exposure expectations.
5. Keep looking for new and innovative ways to improve web site targeting.

Thanks,

Willow

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