Everyone wants their website to show up in the top ten
of every search engine. Well maybe not me - I only get 2 gigs
of transfer a month but if you actually have a product to
sell and spend more than $9.95 a month for web hosting - search
engine positioning is essential and having a professional who knows every trick (or what tricks NOT to do) of the game
is priceless.
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You can submit your site by hand to the major
search engines or use software such as Search
Engine Commando Pro which submits your sites but
makes it seem like you're hand submitting them. Yes it's slower
but who cares if it gets the best results? Engines can recognize
some automated submission programs that don't use this technique
and can ban your i.p. for spamming.
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Did your page disappear out of Google? Or one of your pages
that was number #3 in Lycos is now #42? What happened? The
search
engine forums at jimworld is an excellent place to ask
your question - with seperate forums for each search engine
and active posting - chances are your question will be answered
by someone.
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Besides being interesting to see what pages are linking
to you and what they have to say about your site, checking
how many sites are linking to yours can be essential
for getting good placement. Google for instance puts a good
deal of clout of how many pages link to your site for their
equation in figuring out placement. The more links to your
site the better. Especially from sites deemed as important
themselves. This tool
here lets you see what pages are linking to you on a few of
the major engines. Use this rank
checker to find where you rank on 10 major engines with
the click of one button.
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Wondering how your page looks at different resolutions but
don't feel like going to the control panel every time? Check
this site out and it'll pop
your webpage in different sizes. What are the stastics
on people that are using IE 5 on the web? How many are using
Windows 98? What color depth are they viewing webpage at?
All these questions can be answered at thecounter.com's constantly
updated statistics.
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Have your webpage set up but you want to more interactive
content to bring visitors back? An interesting
poll asking ones opinion is a great way to keep things
fresh and/or humorous. A message forum is another great way
to keep your people coming back and the forums at ezboard.com
are fully customizable and well laid out. Moreover.com is
pretty much the grand daddy of putting free news
feeds on your website. I use them on my search
page to display odd news. Haven't even gotten to making the
page yet? Not that experienced? Freewebtemplates has some
nice user submitted
templates that will get your page started off the right foot.
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