Registering a business web site with various search engines

[mgoarrow]

What is the best way to register a business web site with the various search engines? Is there a reliable, inexpensive way to do this?

[chrismitchell]

There are a few ways... I have the address of a site at home I will post on here in a short while, that logs it with about 10 search engines.... (unfortunately not any of the really well known ones.).

If I think of anywhere else I will let you know.

Watch this space!

[chrismitchell]

This one is unfortunately $69 but might be worth it.

www.bestyellow.com/index.html

I will continue to search!

[chrismitchell]

http://free.netpromote.com

Is also one that does free registering!

[chrismitchell]

here is another place telling you how to register step-by-step.

www.searchengines.com Then click under Submission Tips.

The Search continues!

[chrismitchell]

or goto:

www.dogpile.com

It has links to the submit pages on Google etc.

[mgoarrow]

Thanks for your help!

I'm trying to avoid having to register individually with Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc. and pay their high registration fees.

[chrismitchell]

Thats no problem mate... I will continue to look for more.. people always need this sort of free publicity!

[JoshT]

Yahoo and Altavista started charging to register your site??? That would make the search engines go downhill even worse than they did when they switched form search engines to "portals".

Josh

[mgoarrow]

They charge if it's a "business site" - personal or informational sites are still free.......

[chrismitchell]

How about Google... They seemed to accept a site for me with no complaints...... Though I am wondering if it will jump up and bite me later!

Google seems to be the best of all search engines.. It gives the most accurate results

[chrismitchell]

I definately agree with that anoop... You didn't sell them the idea did you?

lol

No I think that it is definately the best but I will have to wait to see whether it is a bitter pill or not!

Dont forget to manually promote your site. All pages should have a relevant title, all pictures should have relevant names and alt text. Make sure your meta tags are of a sensible length with the most accurate information you can. If you work hard on your site, you'll get far more search engine coverage. One of the project sites I'm working on at college appears at positions 3 and 4 in a relevant google and yahoo search (of over 20 pages of results - thousands!), and we haven't paid a penny for the privelege.

[chrismitchell]

Originally posted by Behemoth
Dont forget to manually promote your site. All pages should have a relevant title, all pictures should have relevant names and alt text. Make sure your meta tags are of a sensible length with the most accurate information you can. If you work hard on your site, you'll get far more search engine coverage. One of the project sites I'm working on at college appears at positions 3 and 4 in a relevant google and yahoo search (of over 20 pages of results - thousands!), and we haven't paid a penny for the privelege.

Behemoth,

Could you email me what you did for the Project site.... To get the positions... I could possibly get you some web work as well..... Flash of course!

to be honest it was a bit of an accident. I'll have a look today and see if I can collate a simple guide. Might be handy to have around!

[chrismitchell]

Originally posted by Behemoth
to be honest it was a bit of an accident. I'll have a look today and see if I can collate a simple guide. Might be handy to have around!

That would be great Behemoth. Did you just change your Avatar?

I think that HoneyBee wouldn't be happy (Nor Active!)

I think that it might be a good idea to upload it in a post in a word doc.

I'm just being cheeky. I'll put it back later.

You want it as a word doc eh? ok, give me some time.

[chrismitchell]

Originally posted by Behemoth
I'm just being cheeky. I'll put it back later.

You want it as a word doc eh? ok, give me some time.

Cool Cheers Behemoth... I think that will be a useful document to have on the Forum and in general because site publicity is a hard and generally expensive thing!

heres something to get started with...

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html

[chrismitchell]

Originally posted by Behemoth
heres something to get started with...

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html

cool site.. had a quick look... I think that I will have a better look when I get home from work!

[chrismitchell]

Oh yes, nice Avatar mate!

[chrismitchell]

Its a Chameleon isn't it?

indeedy. you like? I built it in flash and cleaned it up in imageready.

[chrismitchell]

Image Ready? Why was the Flash really grainy?

I am thinkning of making a Flash Avatar when I get Flash 5 (tomorrow! )

I needed to remove the white background. Flash5 can export as an animated gif, but it doesnt seem to recognise transparency.

[chrismitchell]

Originally posted by Behemoth
I needed to remove the white background. Flash5 can export as an animated gif, but it doesnt seem to recognise transparency.

There is a way for the Transparency but you need to go into the ActionScript and insert some JavaScript (its a transparency thing.. it looks like JavaScript... Though I could be wrong.) If I find it again (which I probably will) I will upload it here for you.

I prefer my method

[chrismitchell]

Fair enough.....

I'm sorry, that was rude of me. I'd like the code for reference even if I dont use it, If its not too much trouble.

[chrismitchell]

Originally posted by Behemoth
I'm sorry, that was rude of me. I'd like the code for reference even if I dont use it, If its not too much trouble.

No problem... No thats no problem.. Everyone does things in different ways, i just remembered seeing some transparency code in ActionScript / JavaScript... there are many other ways to get to the desired result.... Hell I might do it the same way you did...