Affiliate Web Marketing

Have you submitted your site to the relevant Search Engines? Once you have a website or blog set up, it is important to make it easy for the search engines to discover. One way of doing this is by Search Engine Submission and it’s important to do this as soon as possible. The reason I say this is because it can take up to 8 weeks for the submission to be approved. There are also quite a few search engines these days so it is important to think about your target audience. By this I mean whether it is geographically targeted. If you have a product or website that is only relevant to  a UK audience then you might want to look at submitting your site to local directories like google.co.uk or yahoo.co.uk. You can even go one step further by submitting your site to search engines in your area (like somersetsearch or netlondon).

Here is a quick look at some of the most popular Search Engine Submission directories.

90.11% of Global Internet Searches

Google has a well deserved reputation as ‘THE’ Search Engine of choice by most people on the net. There are many reasons for this, which range from it’s stability and relevancy of it’s crawler-type searches, to it’s features and applications which make it a joy to use.

5.77% of Global Internet Searches

Launched in 1994, Yahoo is considered one of the ‘oldest’ Directories on the web today. There are two main fetures that we wolud like to bring to your attention regarding Yahoo. These are:

Yahoo Search-http://search.yahoo.com/

This is a FREE listing where you can submit your site to Yahoo. You can also setup RSS Feeds so that new content is automatically submitted. All sites will require authorization by either uploading a file to your server or adding a ‘META NAME’ to the Header Template in your Appearance Editor Script (wordpress.org).

Yahoo Directory-http://dir.yahoo.com/

This is a PAID subscription to the Yahoo Directory and is highly regarded throughout the Professional Internet Marketing World..

1.48% of Global Internet Searches

Live Search, formally known as Windows Live Search is Microsofts Search Engine designed to compete in the major league against Google and Yahoo.

Some other popular directory’s to submit to:

All The Web

AOL

HotBot

Altavista

Gigablast

Looksmart

Lycos

Netscape

DMOZ

So what you need to do now is go and submit your Site URL (Domain Name) to each and everyone of these Directories. This will make your site more visible and by using your Search Engine Submission, will Increase it’s ‘Spiderability’.