Search Engine Submission Tips
Congratulations! If you've read through this entire beginner's guide to search engine optimization than you can now start applying the 10 basic steps to better SEO! Ok now that we have that out of the way, you've probably done quite a bit of work already just to get this far. So in this last page we're going to overview actually submitting your website link to the search engines and provide you with some follow-up resources. Hopefully you have a better understanding about the basic principles of Search Engine Optimization and are in a state of improving your pagerank and increasing your website traffic already. However if you're still missing that extra experience and attention for your web design project and its elements of SEO better practices then check out our SEO services we offer.
Now that we've accomplished the pat on the back for your efforts and snuck in some clever self promotion, let's get to the final step for better SEO and actually submit your website to some search engines!. First some thing's to consider while you're performing this task.
If you're starting a new site or just revamped your web design and content organization then submission can be beneficial. If your website has already been around for some time and it has numerous inbound links already indexed then you should consider avoiding this step. Still do some searching around and submit your website to the search engines that aren't already crawling it. Why not re-submit to the search engines? Glad you asked...
Unless you've recently added a good amount of fresh content to a page or added something else grand, avoid repetitive submission. There are some companies that offer even daily search engine submission services that will just continually submit the same links over and over. If you're trying to understand how this could possibly be productive, so are we. Submit a couple links to your strongest optimized content once or twice and leave it alone for a long time.
When submitting you might consider using direct links to some of your best content instead of only submitting your root domain.
There's a lot of websites that offer search engine submission services and require a backlink on your website for you to receive what they say is submission to the top 10 search engines for example. Many of these are just market data harvesting schemes and you're essentially just providing someone a valid email and a backlink for nothing. However some also are completely legitimate and even free, so be aware.
 Remember your syndicated content!
Don't forget all those great RSS feeds and syndicated dynamic content that you are going through the trouble of providing. There are numerous places that JUST syndicated feed links! So make sure to do some searches for places to submit your RSS feed and get them the exposure they deserve.
Anyway since we don't officially endorse any particular service at this time here's some direct search engine submission links for you to do some of your own search engine submissions. Please do not place the fact that we listed a link to these search engines that is by no means in relation to their potential search engine marketing benefits. They are just some places start.
So now you're armed with a few search engines to submit to but ideally you want your website to be found via organic linking like we touched on in the last page. So your efforts are definitely better spent practicing other better SEO methods for long term results. On that note...
Beginner's Guide to SEO Closing Thoughts
We hope this guide has helped you in your search for better optimization in your website. Look to our other articles on search engine optimization for more detailed and in depth information for each topic we covered. So we hope you've learned some helpful tips and hope you share the knowledge with friends. After all the easier the internet is searched, the better all of our experience is. So to wrap things up a quick summary of what we've covered.
10 Basic Steps to Better SEO
Keywords and Keyphrase: Deciding on what why you're trying to be found is the first step. Next is how you can be found most effectively if someone was using a search engine to find you.
Title Relavency: A further break down of applying what you learned about keywords and keyphrases towards the content of your website. How to better optimize certain elements for descriptive relavency and more.
Dynamic Content: Giving both your visitor traffic and your search engine spiders dynamic content to index provides many benefits. From supplying news feeds to just adding new content regularly, if it's fresh it reflects.
Navigation / Association: Make it easily readable to both the humans and the bots if you want better placement. How things are organized and designed can make a difference ya know?
Meta Tags Explained: A quick overview of the myths and use's of the iconic meta tag and how it can help your websites exposure to the search engines. You don't need them all, but if used right they definitely can't hurt.
SiteMaps and Robots: Utilizing both the more technical and standard sitemaps allows your site's content a way to be found in one organized spot and can help tremendously. Adding a well formed robots.txt file isn't a bad either if you haven't already.
HTML Optimization: A quick introduction of a little more technical side with HTML optimization tips.
Inbound & Outbound Links: How to use how you link to your advantage. Think descriptive and proper with your anchor tags.
Link Building: Your links are an important piece to your optimization efforts, get out there and build them!
Search Engine Submission: The page you're reading right now. :)
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