Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
If you just started your business website don’t forgot the #1 step for showing up on search engines…..Submit your website to the search engines. Here are a list of website you’ll need to submit your website to:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
http://websearch.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=websearch&cdn=compute&tm=5&f=20&su=p284.9.336.ip_p504.1.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//submit.search.yahoo.com/
Now that you’ve submitted your website so the search engines know your business exist, they will start indexing it so one day it will show up on search engines. However, to show up within the first several pages you’ll have to take extra steps.
Step #2 would be to ask your website designer to put together an XML formatted map of your website. This map will have to be submitted to search engines also so they know how your website is supposed to be navigated and where any pages are they won't be able to see. It’s important that search engines know about all the pages on your website and what’s on them so your website is indexed correctly for targeted searches.
Here are the links for submitting your website map:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184
http://webdesign.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=webdesign&cdn=compute&tm=27&f=20&su=p284.9.336.ip_p504.1.336.ip_&tt=7&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.bing.com/webmaster/
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Step #3. Now a comprehensive keyword search should be done. The keywords will have a good ratio between being a targeted word that describes your website, receives high search volume per month (100,000+), and doesn’t have a lot of competition in the search engines. These keywords will be used to write concise meta titles and meta descriptions. This is the most important part out of all the steps for proper website optimization.  In Spring of 2010, Google began phasing out the importance of meta keywords for your website. Now more than ever it is your meta title and meta description which will make or break how well your website shows up on search engines. www.BuildYourBrandLLC.com can assist your business with these steps, helping to build your business' brand marketing. If done correctly these steps only have to be done once and can get your business a possible quarter of a million targeted viewers.
Take the right steps for getting your business ranking high on search engines. The most basic steps are usually the ones you tend to look past but taking 5 minutes out of your day to do these steps can greatly improve your website’s visibility in search engines.
