| When You launch an internet business with a website, | | | | or rank high. It can be very competitive due to the |
| the best way to advertise and market that business is | | | | thousands of new websites submitted daily, so it may |
| by submitting to the Search Engines and Directories. | | | | take a while before your website can be reviewed by |
| Regardless of how many press releases, newspapers | | | | human editors. An important tip to remember when |
| or radio ads, banners, spam emails or newsletters the | | | | you submite your website, is to include a site map of |
| biggest results will be from the SE. | | | | your website which makes the crawling easier for the |
| When you decide to submit your website to the | | | | web robots. Search Engines like Google hardly |
| search engines, it is advisable to either do it yourself or | | | | considers submissions without site maps. |
| hire a reputable expert to do it and it has to be done | | | | You can submit your website to the SE yourself by |
| manually. Beware of companies out there that promise | | | | using software packages and services like this |
| to submit your website to hundreds of SE and have | | | | example below: A{creative}3Atrial.asp?WT.mc |
| you ranked on the 1st page in a matter of days or | | | | ial:{keyword}&WT.srch=1 |
| weeks. | | | | For professional assistance try the following sites: |
| Get all the updated information from the SE and | | | | submission |
| directories before you submit your website, so that | | | | Avoid using automatic submission services. |
| you can do a thorough check to make sure you have | | | | List is some of the most popular SE and directories: |
| professional design, valuable relevant content, quality | | | | Search Engines: |
| targeted keywords, good graphics and pictures. Do not | | | | Go.com/Infoseek AltaVista |
| submit incompleted websites. Provide pertinent | | | | Google, HotBot |
| information about your website, like keywords and | | | | Excite/Webcrawler |
| phrases, including your contact information for your | | | | Directories: |
| business. | | | | AOL Search Inktomi |
| Keep in mind that merely submitting your website does | | | | Lycos Open Directory |
| not guarantee that it will be immediately listed, ranked | | | | MSN, Yahoo! |