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Web Site Design and promotion Tips!

Search engine submission

Before you submit your web site to search engines you should:-

Ensure it is optimised fully
Check which search engines you are listed on and where you rank for your preferred phrases.

You can do this by visiting the major search engines and entering your full URL (Domain Name i.e. www.yourname.co.uk) in the search box and clicking search. If you are listed you should be ranked at number 1. If so, enter your chosen search phrase and check the ranking. To attract visitors using this phrase you should be ranked at in least the top 50 or first 2 pages.
If you are listed but you don't rank as high as you would like you should fine tune the page, optimising it for the phrase you wish, prior to submitting to the search engines.

It is no good simply re-submitting the same page or web site, without making changes, as it will not increase the ranking!
Before making changes to your page, check your tracking system to make sure you are not receiving hits to this page using a different phrase, if you are and you change it then submit, you may well lose these visits!
Once you are happy with the optimisation you can submit to as many search engines as you like.

Remember! Major search engines such as Google do not require submission. If your web site is linked to from a web site already in their index, such as ourweddingmemories, they will find your web site in time.
Submission can be carried out manually by visiting the submission page of each individual engine.
You can also purchase software that automatically submits to many search engines, although some engines, Altavista being one, do not support automatic submission.
There are also many free submission services which profess to submit to hundreds of search engines and directories automatically. Unfortunately, you should beware of these as many simply use it to obtain e-mail addresses for marketing purposes.

Some services guarantee a top ranking for given key phrases in a set number of search engines.

Again beware of these as there is no guarantee with the top free submission search engines.
Other services offer, for a set monthly fee, to re-submit your web site over and over again.

Unless you make regular changes to the optimisation or content of a page, re-submission will not improve your ranking. If you wish to keep resubmitting try a different page each time. As mentioned Google will find your site without submission and any changes will be indexed on the next crawl so there is no need to keep re-submitting!
If you want us to assess your site for search engine optimisation, make suggestions on alterations which should be made and check the ranking on search engines, please submit the form with your details, including your web site address.

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