Getting search engines to notice web site

[danzig]

I was wondering what would be the best way to get my website noticed by the search engines . I have submitted my site to several sites and still haven't found it while doing a search .

 

[Alex]

i forget what the site is called but goto geocities.com (assuming youre a subscriber) cuz there they have this like expose my website or something tool that sticks it in like all good search engines (you pick which) and it DOES get your hit count up!

also, maybe even tho youve subscribed, your site still hasnt been added to the list.

heres an old trick too, if you use frames, goto the main one that gets loaded (but never appears, like where all the new ones appear n stuff) and change its title to all of your sites keywords... it helps AFAIK

 

[danzig]

Yep , it's got frames - I'll try that !

 

[narzy]

register it with yahoo. most other search engines sync with it, and get it on google.

 

[richleader]

It's really not easy especially if you're new at the game because it was a lot easier to get sites in and stick during the old days. Like you said, a lot of the places you submit to don't seem to care.

First thing you should do is find a place on Dmoz.org and submit it to an appropriate catergory. Google will definitely find your site from there and give it a ratings boost that it wouldn't have if you submitted it on your own to Google. Yahoo shares the google database. 90% of my site's hits are from these two pages, so it really was barely worth the hassle to submit to altavista, lycos, fast, etc--in fact, I get more hits referred to from taiwanese database thieves than those american search engines. The only point in bothering with altavista and the like is that they give you referral information, unlike google/yahoo, meaning you can tell what people are searching for, rather than just guessing where they arrived through your stats.

So try Dmoz first, and be patient, it seems like Google only gets to my site once every two months or so--though fast and altavista are on it like every other day or so, but their engines are so spammed with gateways and shadowing and all kinds of garbage that legitimate small sites can't really get referrals from them. I don't even have anyone really linking to my page (how google measures popularity) and I still come up first on all relevent searches, so I'm not complaining.

 

[danzig]

Thanks guys !!