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Search Engine Optimization Tips

Search engine optimization can be difficult and confusing. Knowing this we decided to put together some tips to help you with the process. They cover everything you need to know about optimizing your web pages for the search engines quickly and easily.

Search engine optimization tips listed in order of importance:

  1. Potential site design/set up problems.
  2. Selecting the correct keywords.
  3. Your title tag.
  4. Your copywriting.
  5. Your meta tags.
  6. Your images "alt" attribute.
  7. What you should not do....
  8. How long it takes to get listed.

 

Search Engine Submission

The search engines linked below are the only ones to which you may submit your site for FREE.

The search engines below are currently the only ones that matter in terms of submitting your site:

 

Search Engines

Partners Submission Page
AltaVista

Now Owned by Overture

Submission page to AltaVista

Google

Yahoo!, Sympatico, AOL

Submission page to Google

AllTheWeb

Now Owned by Overture

Submission page to AllTheWeb

Lycos Hotbot

Submission page to Lycos
(note you must first register as an insite member)

 

DIRECTORIES, PORTALS AND OTHER PARTIES

There are three major, general, directory sites that are worth getting listed on.

 
Directory Partners Submission Page
Yahoo!

All International Yahoo!

Submission page to Yahoo! - cost is $299 + US per year
Looksmart

AltaVista, MSN , Webcrawler, CNN

Submission page to Looksmart - cost is $99 + US
Open Directory Project

Hotbot, AOL, and others

How to suggest a site to the Open Directory (still free)

 

 

 
 
 

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