You've built up a good site,
put in a lot of content, but none of the search engines lists your site?
If you'd like to know how to go ahead with Search Engine Submission the
right way, read on...
How do I get my site to be included in search engines?
That's a question on which a lot of people
wants to know the answer. A lot of sites don't
get spidered into search engine results just because the pages are not
search-engine friendly. Search engines like to see a lot of text on your
site. This means that if your site is filled with Flash animations and
graphics, instead of text for content, your site probably not show up
in search-engine results. Another reason your site might be losing out
in search engine rankings would be the lack of meta-tags.
So what are meta-tags? Meta-tags are small pieces
of code which you embed into your pages which informs your search engines
about your site's contents, how to spider your site, and other such instructions.
Most search engines look at your page's meta-tags and title tag to get
the relevant information to index your site. So you should make sure that
all your pages have the relevant details in meta-tags. The three most
important tags for your site are 'DESCRIPTION' and 'KEYWORDS' meta-tags
and the 'TITLE' tag on the page.
The 'DESCRIPTION' tag is used to describe the contents
of the page, so search engines might use it as a description
in the results. You should enter a short description of the page
in this tag. Here's how the tag will look when you enter the description
of the page:
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="Tips on
how to submit your web site to search engines.">
The 'KEYWORDS' tag is used to prompt the search
engine for the words you feel are important in the page. This helps in
the ranking process of search engines. In your keywords tag, use as many
combinations of your search term as you can, without repeating the same
terms too many times. Some search engines penalize a site for repeating
keywords. Here's how a keywords tag would look:
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="Search Engine
Optimization, submit, site, SE, submission">
Every page you have on your site should have a
Title tag. All search engines use the content of your title tag to index
the content of your site. So make sure you've got a Title tag and the
Title has some relevance to the content in your page. An example of the
title tag:
<title>Search Engine Submission</title>
These three tags by themselves should give a boost
to your ranking once the search engine crawls your site.
