How long does it take for the search engines to list my site?

It is entirely up to each search engine or directory. Please note that many search engines take a few days to a few weeks to index your web sites to their database. Many major search engines take more than 4 weeks even 8 weeks to index your web page. Please give yourself enough time for the engines to add your site to the database.

What is Link Popularity?

Link popularity and click popularity are determined by each search engine. AltaVista may calculate a high popularity for your site, whereas Infoseek may calculate a low popularity for your site. Each search engine may also use the popularity information in different ways. It will all depend on their specific algorithms. Popularity is becoming more widely used by search engines. Therefore, it is a very important consideration when trying to increase your ranks. Hypothetically, if you have two sites that have equal content and equal meta tags, then the site with more popularity will rank higher.

The link popularity of your site is determined by:
The number of web sites that are linking to your site (the web page that your link appears on, must be indexed by the search engine - just using those "free-for-all-links-pages" is not the kind of link that you're looking for.), The popularity of the sites are that are linking to your site and the similarity of the content on sites that link to your site. Link popularity is used by every search engine to some extent.

How to find out who's Linking to you:
Google: Type into search box: link:www.yourdomain.com This will give you a general estimate of your popularity. It will also tell you approximately how many pages from your site are listed with google.

AltaVista: Type into search box: link:yourdomain.com This will give you all of the pages which link to you, the same as google.

AllTheWeb: Type into search box: link:yourdomain.com Again, this may give you some of the pages which are linking to you.

What is a meta tag?

META tags are used by some search engines to determine the ranking of your site in their search results.

Do I need meta tags?

Yes, and the most important "tag" is the title, followed by the description "tag".

Which search engines and directories do you submit to?

We only submit your site to the top search engines and directories, These are the ones that will generate traffic to your site. No junk, just real search engines and directories. You can see the list of search engines and directories we submit to here.

What is the difference between a Search Engine, FFA and a Directory?

Search Engines rely on automated tools called "robots" to collect information from websites. This information is added to the Search Engine's database, based on a number of criteria, including page content, page title, links, etc. Google and MSN Search are two well-known Search Engines.

Directories use human editors to look at websites and to decide how to categorize sites for inclusion. Yahoo! and Open Directory Project are two popular Directories.

FFA - Free For All links (FFA) are pages in which links to website can be entered together with a short comment. Owners of websites thereby enter the registration themselves, and there is no editing board to review the entries. It is free and becomes immediately effective.

What are Search Engine robots?

Robots are automated tools used by Search Engines to look at a website. When a robot crawls your site, it notes the title and content of your web pages, links within the site, etc. The Search Engine uses this information to decide what your site is about, so that it can properly categorize it in the Search Engine's database.

Why isn't my site listed on the search engines?

This occurs for a variety of reasons. Many search engine and directory sites require between 6 weeks up to 6 months to list a site. Your site could also be listed but not ranking properly.

Will I receive spam after my site is submitted?

Some of the search engines and directories sends out a confirmation email. You may also be added to their newsletter. We recommend that you use an alternative email account for the submission.

Will you submit my site to all search engines in your list?

Your website will be added to all the engines on the list that match your profile. Some engines are restricted to certain countries or parts of the world. We will however, submit your website to at least 120 search engines and directories. Note that not all submissions will be successful. Search engines and directories are sometimes unable to accept a submission due to downtime, upgradings of their system or some other reason.

Parts of my site is "under construction" can I still submit it to the search engines? We recommend that you do not submit sites with "under construction" pages, they will probably not be accepted by most of the directories.

Do you provide a submission report?

Yes, a submission report in HTML format will be sent to you via email, within minutes after you submit. This lets you know where you were successfully submitted, and what sites your website was not submitted to.

How can I improve my ranking in the Search Engines and Directories?

The best way to improve your ranking is by incorporating good design and good content into your pages. People who come to a website are looking for information, and the best sites are those with the best information. If you have good text and tell a compelling story, you will rank higher. If it is easier for people to move around your site to collect that information, you will rank higher.

How might I hurt my ranking in the Search Engines or Directories?

One obvious answer is the lack of good content in your pages. In addition, there are certain technologies which, if integrated into your site, may actually decrease the ranking of your site: frames, Flash movies, image maps, reliance on JavaScript for navigation, dynamic pages, and several others. These technologies, while making a site exciting for human visitors, can cause problems for the Search Engine robots. Robots don't understand these design elements, and may not fully crawl your site. This means that your site may not be fully included in the Search Engines.

How often shall I submit my web sites to search engines? (Does my web site will be banned by search engines if I submit to often?)

Different engines act differently. Generally, you can re-submit your web site once per month. For Spider Engines, if your web site has been indexed already, the search engine's "Robot" will re-visit your web site at a regular time(normally once or twice per month) and update their database with the changes you have made.

For Directory Engines, generally you don't need to re-submit it again if your web site has been indexed already. Most of the directory engines only accept the one main URL only. If you over submit, you will be considered as "spam" may cause your web site to be banned by the search engines.

You can re-submit your web site again if you make any changes to your web site. We suggest that you should always make some minor changes to your web site, so that the search engines will consider your web site are well maintain and it will also help to improving your web ranking. If your web site isn't indexed by the search engines, you can re-submit your web site again once per month. We suggest that make some changes to your web site contents before re-submitting.

Avoid Spamming

If you submit your web site too often, you will be considered as "spam" and your web site will be banned by the search engines. Here are some general rules when submitting your web site:
1. Do not submit the SAME URL multiple times in one day.
2. Do not submit more than 5 different URLs under the same domain in one day.
3. If you have many URLs(or pages) under the same domain, please only submit 3 to 5 pages each day.
4. Always make some changes to your web site before re-submitting.
5. Do not re-submit the SAME URL more than once per month.

Why are there submission failures on the Submission Report?

Because of the ever-changing nature of Search Engines, internet traffic condition, and network congestion on the Internet, it is not uncommon that you will experience some failures on each submission campaign. Normally, you can simply re-submit the failed engines again at an other time.

Why are not my web sites indexed by the Search Engines? (We have been using your service for around 5 weeks now, submitting about every week or so, however, we are not showing up anywhere on any of the major Search Engines. What am I doing wrong?)

Your web site URLs are embedded in JavaScript. This is the most common reason why your web sites are not indexed by the Search Engines. If your web site URLs are embedded in JavaScript, most of the Search Engines will not recognize and index these pages. If you're serious about getting your web sites to be indexed by the Search Engines and get a good position on the MAJOR Search Engines such as AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo and many others, please consider changing your web site style, either by putting your links in simple html format or making alternative links at the bottom of your page just for the Search Engines.

There are no or little content on your web pages

If your web site was designed for "Nice looking" which means it contains only the Image, Flash, Java, Image map etc, and there is no actual text information (or just little text) on your web pages, your web pages will be ignored by the Search Engines because Search Engines will index the web sites, which contain valuable information. Please put any real useful information in text format to your web pages.

Your web site is a Frame style

Most major Search Engines do not support Frame style of the web sites. If you wish your web sites to be indexed by the Search Engines and get good results, please consider changing your web sites to a non-frame style.

Do not use any Virtual Domain Redirection Service

If you are using an Internet Redirection Service to make it easy for people to remember your website address, please do not use the Redirection web site address for your submission, use your real web site URL to submit to the Search Engines.

Using normal .html (or .htm) file format

If the contents of your web pages are generated at real time by using a script such as .cgi, .asp etc rather than a normal .html (or .htm) file, you are taking the risk that your web sites may be ignored by the Search Engines, because Search Engines want to index the web pages where they knew what the information is.

This tag redirects your page to another web site. If you have this tag in your code, the robots will usually completely ignore your website altogether.

This tag specifically directs robots to ignore that web page. If you have it in your code, remove it immediately. You can use it on pages you do not want Search Engines to index.

Are You Using Free Website Hosting?

Many free website hosts use various methods of enforcing their advertising banners on your ite. This sometimes causes wrong and/or incomplete indexing of your website. If you haverepeatedly have trouble with getting your free website indexed, switch to a pay web hosting provider.

Should I submit all my web pages or just the main index page?

For Directory engines, most of them only accept main page. For this reason, you should submit the main page only to the directory engines. However, if your web site covers different type of the products or services, you can submit each product page as well.

For Spider engines, most of them cliam that the engine robot will collect all the URLs from your main page, however, our reserch shows that there is not guarnatee all your web pages will be indexed by the search engines. For this reason, we recommand to submit all your web pages include the main index page.

Why does my position on Search Engines constantly change?

The criteria used by Search Engines for ranking Web sites is based on so many variables that it is almost impossible to precisely predict where your site will be positioned from one day to the next. Such factors include: the number of other pages (sites) using similar 'keywords', keyword relevancy to the contents of your web site, cross link within your web site, how many external links to your web site, constantly changing listing criteria (algorithms) used bd, Search Engines and many other factors. This is why it is important to regularly submit your Web site details to every Search Engine and Web directory using a submission program like Dynamic Submission, and then to check its effectiveness with Dynamic Web Ranking. Working hand in hand they will provide the tools to ensure prominent exposure for your Web site on all those important Web resources.