Search Engine Submit and Optimization - Cost: $395.00
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Website Optimization
We will thoroughly analyze your submit page, title, metatag description and keywords ensuring you are putting your best face forward. The most important part of submitting your site is simply what you submit. The #1 problem webmasters and site designers make is relying upon common sense when it comes to optimizing their site. Research reveals we all have a different common sense. The other mistake is to copy the keyword metatags from sites that rank well. Later, the folks who do that wonder why they didn't get the same rankings. Optimization involves some subtlety.
Manual Search Engine Submission - a manual search engine submit service
Manual Search Engine submission service includes:
- Individually submit your site to more than 40 prominent search engines
- Submit your website based on relevant keywords
- Obtain optimal search engine result position
- Tailor each submission to match your area of business
- Tailor each submission to match geographic location associated with your website
- Analyze submit page, title, metatag description and keywords
- Complete Submission Report sent via e-mail
We will thoroughly analyze your submit page, title, metatag description and keywords ensuring you are putting your best face forward. The most important part of submitting your site is simply what you submit. The #1 problem webmasters and site designers make is relying upon common sense when it comes to optimizing their site. Research reveals we all have a different common sense. The other mistake is to copy the keyword metatags from sites that rank well. Later, the folks who do that wonder why they didn't get the same rankings. Optimization involves some subtlety.
Google, Yahoo (299.00 per year), and MSN will find your site by crawling links from other sites. Paid inclusions neccessary for some sites.
If you don't have at least 1 link from one other page already in the index, you won't rank well for anything, even if the submission does alert the engines that the page exists.
Following optimization we will hand submit your site, one search engine directory at a time, until we have submitted you to 35 plus search engines. The fact is you will probably be picked up by at least 300 engines but most of them are fairly insignificant.
A two month follow-up to check listings and to resubmit is included in service.
Introducing our After-Care Maintenance Program. Many of our small business clients are in highly competitive businesses and have to fight hard for search engine rankings. For those clients we offer an ad hoc aftercare maintainance program. The service includes updated site analysis, optimization, resubmissions as necessary. If you want to remain in the program for the future we can discuss rates or fixed support fees .
Submitting your web page to 1500+ search engines means that you'll end up with 1500+ spam e-mail messages. It's quality that matters, not quantity. For that reason, we only submit to search engines that are really used by the majority of web surfers. If you ever see FAA -- run for your life!
Most engines still provide a free listings option and for the most part it's not worth paying them for the listing.
There are exceptions however. In our judgment Inktomi and Teoma are worth payng for. First of all, they get you listed in a few days (rather than the normal 5 weeks to two months) and they reindex your site every few days. This is important relative to optimization. Any changes to your site designed to improve your rankings are picked up quickly by these service providers. There was a point a couple of years ago when AltaVista had not refreshed or reindexed their site for one year. That meant that any changes to your site would not have been included for that long. Many engines refresh monthly.
Inktomi charges $39 for listing but gets you on aol, msn, hotbot and several others within three days. Teoma charges $30 and gets you on in seven days. Teoma is now huge and has been dubbed the google killer.
One way to judge your submission/optimization service providers is to see how much they charge to list you with these engines. Some charge you so much they simply submit you to them without telling you. You get impressed because you get on quickly and never know that anyone can get on quickly.
Other services charge you what Inktomi or Teoma would charge you and even more. They never tell you that Inktomi and Teoma give them significant service provider discounts. My service is the only one I've seen that shares that discount with clients. You save $8 when we submit to these services for you. But the real advantage is that we get to see how well we have done with optimization and if we need to we can tweak your site and in three days check again.
At this time, we are not recommending other paid listing services and suggest we just submit you for the free listing.
In terms of pay-per-click services we recommend overture.com.
Why is manual submission important?
Each search engine/directory has different rules and criteria to determine whether and how a web page is indexed. With the directories in particular if you don't submit your web site to exactly the right category and if you don't follow the rules of submission, your submission will not be accepted. It's important that you provide the right description length; it's important that you follow their submitting guidelines; it's important that you submit your web site to the right category, etc.
Many search engines have their own unique system for positioning a site. Let me give you an example and you will see why hand submission is important. Recently, we submitted a domain sales site for one of our clients. We wanted to make sure his site was on the best page possible for his particular services. We had to find that page.
This is what we found at the all-important Open Directory Project: Computers> Internet > Commercial Services > Domain Names > For Sale or Auction > General Brokers.
When we went to Yahoo we had to again start from scratch to find just the right page for our client. This is what we found: Business & Economy > Business to Business > Communications & Networking > Internet & WWW > Domain Registration > Brokerages.
Now you see why there are so few hand submission services. It's time consuming but we've learned to do it efficiently and well. And, we can do it for you.
Go here to see a list of the sites that SEO Placement Services submits to.
