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  • Why should I submit to search engines and directories?

    Because search engines and directories are the main sources of traffic for almost every website. Traffic you receive from search engines is already targeted.Visitors arriving at your site from search engines have entered a keyword relevant to your site, so they are already interested in your product or service. This is the best source of potential customers you can have. Search engines are free to users and users know where and how to use them. Search engines are also the number one way where users find new sites. Surveys show that over 85% of users rely on search engines to locate information on the Web. Furthermore, submitting to directories will also boost your link popularity which is an extremely important factor for your site's ranking on search engines.


    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.


    How long will it take before I notice a significant increase in the ranking of my site?
    The full effect of web promotion can anywhere up to 6 months. If you plan on a quick ROI, website promotion is not for you. However, if you plan to have a website that will be around for months and years to come, promoting your website on search engines will yield the best return on investment.

    Each engine indexes at a different rate, but as a general rule, you must allow at least 2 months before search engines will apply ranking to new content. In Google, most experts agree that new content is placed in a reserve for about 3 months before it even has a chance to achieve good ranking. This is called the "Sandbox Effect". According to this popular theory, new web pages and links are placed in a "quarantine" for at least 8 to 12 weeks of evaluation before they are allowed to gain any top rankings. (read more here).

    Beware of SEO Companies who promise "Fast" results. We don't make these empty promises. There is just no way to "speed up" this process, because each search engine has it's own agenda for spidering and ranking websites. This does take time, but before long there will be visitors arriving at your site from all directions!


    Which search engines, directories and other popular indices do we submit to?
    We constantly improve the list of search engines, directories and other sites that we submit to. This involves appending and deleting sites from the list regularly. We will always submit your site to the most popular search engines, directories and other indices.


    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 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.


    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.


    Do you guarantee inclusion and top ranking on the search engines?
    Each search engine has it's own technique when they rank pages so it is not possible for any company to guarantee that. We will submit your site to the search engines and directories but after that it is is entirely up to each search engine or directory to decide if they accept the site
    or not.

    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.


    What kind of guarantee, if any, do you provide?
    We guarantee our best efforts to maximize your web site's visibility on the search engines and we guarantee that you will see results. We understand the web and how to best promote web sites. We also understand how searches are done by the major search engines, link lists and directories and we endeavor to stay current with their ever changing methods. The search engines, link lists and directories, however, control how information is indexed and presented to users and their methods, as well as their databases, are constantly changing. So, even though a well ran promotion may produce additional traffic in the short term, there is no way to guarantee that level of traffic to continue or increase without an ongoing marketing program like we provide. However, as good as we are at our business, no one can really guarantee the best ranking on all search engines or even on one in particular.


    Do you have a money back guarantee policy?
    Yes! All our services include a full 30 day money back guarantee. If you are not happy with our service, please contact us within the first 30 days for a full refund. Please view our Cancellation/Refund Policy for more details.


    How do search engine listings compare to banner ads, bulk email, or affiliate programs?
    A study conducted by NPD Group, a research group specializing in consumer purchasing and behavior, tested the impact of search listings, bulk email, and affiliate programs across a variety of target markets to determine which was most effective. In every situation, search engine listings came out on top. Results? Consumers are 12 times more likely to purchase your products or services after finding your web site through a search engine than all these other programs combined!

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