The first thing you need to do is be sure that your site has some sort of content that will keep people coming back for more, content can be any number of things such as jokes, articles, news, games, photographs, art-work, music, videos, how-to information, interesting things about your wild and crazy life, ways to make money, ways to save money, going green, and countless other topics that can fill pages and pages on your site.
Next you'll want to make sure that you have a good description and keywords in the correct places in your source code. Also the description and keywords should be used on your site... this should be done before listing your site with the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Windows Live, Bing, AOL, Mamma, and the many many others out there in the tangled web.
Moving right along, in order to get higher rankings with the search engines you'll need a little something called back-links, no it's not some sort of magic software program that will make getting your site to the top of Google, Yahoo, and other search engines "I wish it was that easy". Back-links are other websites that link back to your site. So how do you get other websites to link to your site.
ɸ You could ask friends and family to add your links and description to there websites, blogs, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc.
ɸ You can offer other webmasters a link on your site with a quality review in-return for them linking to your site.
ɸ You can join a traffic exchange(not my favorite method)where you place a little code on your site, and for each click through you the ad you earn credit and more rotation in the ad cycle.
ɸ You can add you link to classified ad sites (again not a favorite of mine, but it works).
ɸ You can hire a marketing group for do everything for you if you have the money... prices very from agency to agency.
Now that you have your content and you have people linking back to you, now you need to pick up the pace... just kidding, it's finely time to list your site with the search engines. Sure there are lots and lots of sites and programs that you can use to add your site to search engines, but I'd rather do it manually. Why I don't like to use the easy programs is because I've had very little luck with them... but I'm sure that some of them work fine, just not the ones that I've tried. If you want to get you site submitted fast you could try the following sugestions.
ɸ Instant Customers | Get more website traffic for around $49.
ɸ Submission Hub | LOL... take your pick because the two appear to the same thing, offers then same stuff, costs the same, looks a little bit different but not enough.
The above two links are affiliate links through Clickbank, it just goes to show just how many clones are out there... I research about ten sites that all had the same price, same features, same offers, almost the same design, only with different names.
Anyway to manually list your site would take a few hours so use a form filler like Robo Form it stores all your information and passwords and can fill in forms at the click of a button. Oh and no it's not an affiliate link and yes I am an affiliate, and yes I'm crazy for not using my affiliate link.
Alrighty, here are the main websites that you'll want to list your site with! These sites will be about all you need to get listed with, but you can list with as many as you like big, small, it does not matter getting your site to the top takes time so just keep submitting your site around the same date each and every month, be sure to update you content from time to time... a few times a weeks should be fine even if its nothing but to say what a crappy day you had.
Google, Yahoo!, Bing, AltaVista
Well I'll add more tips to this article later, right now my pillow is calling my name.
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