How To Get Your Web Site onto the Search Engines

Let the search engine know that your site is what people are searching for.

• Your pages must be very clear as to what they are about.

• have a separate page for each topic
• use simple, descriptive titles
• use important words early and often
• use 'meta' tags
• use descriptive image names and alternates
• avoid using frames (always)

• You must submit your URL to the various search engines.

• you can pay someone money to do this
• you can do it yourself

To make submitting easier, I have created this list of links to some popular search engines.

The search engines themselves will tell you how!

It's a good idea to read the 'tips' (where availiable) first, so that you get a better idea of how the search engine rates documents. If you're going to go to the time and trouble of submitting your web page/pages, it's a good idea to make sure that the search engines you submit them to will give a darn.

Try to balance the needs of the different rating systems. (Follow my simple little guidelines above, and you're most of the way there!)

Submit your updates, update your submissions

Search engines are quite lazy. Unless you specifically tell them to re-evaluate your site after you've added new information, they will not, at least not for a long, long, time. (Perhaps they are more busy than lazy)

To help you pick hexadecimal colour values for your web pages, I have developed a hexadecimal Colour Value Calculator.