Now you have a domain name and a published website
complete with its meta tags. The problem is that no-one apart from you knows
about it! Try typing your special word, in my case philipspires, into a
search engine and see what comes up. Try typing a number of your keywords
into the search engine and see if you appear. You won’t, at least not yet.
The next step is to promote the site by submitting it to search engines.
Submit a site links
Somewhere on search engine pages, usually right at the
bottom and in a typeface so small you can barely see it you will find the
phrase “Submit a site” or words to that effect. Often when you click on this
link you will be presented with an opportunity to have your site indexed by
the search engine. You will probably have to go through a string of pages
offering express listing for a price but, if you keep trying, you will
usually end up at a page offering free submission, but usually without a
guarantee that you will be included. It does work, however. You will need
your Mysitemetatags file open so that you can copy the site details without
having to type them. And don’t just work on Yahoo, Google etc. The world is
full of search engines. Type “Search engine” into Google and see how many
are listed. In general, submit your site once to each engine. Do not try to
spam them with repeated submissions. This process, one site at a time, can
easily eat up months of work. There has to be an easier way….
Web CEO
And there is, but it’s not without its flaws. If you
type “Search engine submit” or something similar into a search box you will
be bombarded with thousands of free multiple submitters and even more paid
ones. Some of them may even work. My advice is to use something that takes a
little more time but feels much more reliable. It’s called Web CEO and it’s
currently available in a free version and a paid version with more features.
I use the free version. Type “Web CEO” into a search engine to find it,
download it and install it.
The next step is to create a project in the software
based on your own website. Web CEO’s own tutorials are very easy to follow,
so I will not include any particular commands here. But the essence of the
software is that it has a list of thousands of search engines – a list
that’s regularly updated for you. Having supplied Web CEO with details of
your website, which, of course it reads from your own published site, it
then allows you to submit the site, sometimes page by page, to whatever
search engines you choose. It also gives feedback on which submissions have
succeeded and which have failed. You then only need to follow up the failed
ones via the manual submit a site method.
Which ever method you use to submit the site, allow
sometimes as much as a month before the results show up. To test how well
you are doing, try typing your special keyword, philipspires in my case,
into the search engines.
