Search Engine Submission--Submitting your URL to the Major Search Engines

The first thing to consider is that there are not "thousands" of search engines on the Internet. Most of the sites which are counted in such advertisements are little known sites which have links pages. At best they generate no traffic, at worst you get a lot of junk e-mail by submitting to them. We have studied the traffic patterns of many web sites, and can clearly say that 90% of the traffic is generated by a handful of search engines. Your site must be submitted to these major search engines and directories, and it is to this group of search engines that we prefer to concentrate our efforts on.

If you would like to improve your chances of achieving high ranking search engine positioning, then read on.

Search Engine Optimization: the key to improving your web site so that it will come up in the first page of results

Search engines index many pages, and your page can be buried deep down in the search results if it is not constructed properly. Building a page or adjusting a page so that it comes up in the first page or second page of results is what is known as search engine optimization. If your page is not optimized it probably will not get a high ranking and you will not get great results, no matter how many search engines the site has been submitted to.

Our search engine optimization service takes care of two key issues

One, we fine-tune and prepare your site's individual web pages so that they will get a high ranking
Two, we submit your web site and in some cases individual web pages to the search engines and directories which can generate traffic.

These two actions are absolutely critical, and everything else depends on how well this is done.

Here is what you have to do...

Give us the url of your main page, tell us the keywords which you think web surfers will use to find you (if you are not sure we can help you select the keywords)

...and here is what we will do

We will write the meta tags for your page. (Meta tags are lines of text that are not visible to the visitor but are visible to the search engines. They are put as code in the Head of your web page, and give information about your web site's title, description and keywords.) We will also give you suggestions on modifications to your text and graphics that will also optimize the site. Sometimes the structure of your tables or your system of navigation may be working against optimum search engine results. We will alert you to any design problems and suggest solutions

When the meta tags and modifications are in place then we will begin search engine submission. (One thing about submission, surfers can reach your site through any of your pages, not only through your index or home page. In some of our packages we optimize and separately submit these other pages as well. This is especially important for sites with much and with varied content).

We will submit to search engines which handle 95% of the Internet's searches.

How long does it take to get results?

Normally a search engine optimization and submission effort needs up to six months to show full results. This is because some search engines add new listings very slowly. However, if the paid inclusion in Inktomi is used, then one can expect some new traffic more quickly. We will provide you with reports on the progress of the campaign on a monthly basis.