Search Engines

The first thing you should do is to add your URL to as many search engines as possible. Some search engines let you describe your page or write down some keywords. Then think, with which most typical words should you describe the contents of your site? When you've stopped thinking, you've got the answer to what you should enter. Some search engines are using <META> tags instead to describe your page.

Remember that you need to carefully choose your keywords if you want your site ranked on the top of the search engines. First try to figure out what the people you want to your site might use as keywords, people tend to search the most strange things you ever can imagine. For a little bit of insight see the last 20 searches at Magellan or at WebCrawler.

If you've got access to the log file on your server you can see what kind of keywords people who entered your site via a search engine used. Usually you'll find the keywords after the URL like this:

'http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q& what=web&kl=XX&fmt=.&q=%22web+design+tips

Studying these keywords might also give you some hints what you should enter upon search engine registering or in your meta tags.

Here are the largest search-engines and a link to their submitting page.

Adding your site to a large amount of search engines may be a quite time consuming task. That's where the submitting-service are useful, they will do it for you. The AddURL-service is one of the best and it's completely free, most services provide some kind of price-reduced or free alternative. The list below shows how many different places each service will submit your page to.