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We are committed to providing our clients with the best online marketing support possible. As part of our continuing efforts to provide maximum search engine visibility for our clients, we submit your website to search engines on a regular basis. Pending on your Support Level we either submit your website (each page) daily, weekly or monthly. Here you find a short description of submission techniques and tips on how to assess your search engine listings realistically. For more info see also:
How we do prepare webpages for search engine submissions? Each search engine has its own way of analyzing the placement of your key words and key concepts in your page and its own way of evaluating the resulting "keyword density". We account for this with the use of special tools and ensure that all your pages are customized according to latest technologies emphasizing page structure, keyword density, effective use of 'title meta' and 'description meta' tags. Additionally all keywords are reinforced by the rest of the elements of your Web page. Once each page has been completed it undergoes an in-depth analysis for keyword density. Once all pages have been customized we submit each page manually to ensure that the submission is successful. Subsequent submissions are automatic according to a regular schedule. Each page/websites ranking is constantly monitored and documented in submission reports (available with Level 2 and 3 support). We currently submit each of your web pages to the following search engines: Excite, Webcrawler, alltheweb.com, Google, Yahoowebpages, Hotbot Inktomi, AOL, GoTo, MSN, Lycos and DirectHit.
What is a Meta Tag? Most search engines are simply databases which scan pages according to set criteria. All search engines look for META Tags. Of all META TAGS in your pages the crucial one is called the Title Tag. For example, view the top of your current browser window: it will show "web design in Thailand plus e-business applications by thaibiz.com". This is the Title Tag. Keywords in META TAGS (including the Title Tag) must be repeated throughout your site because that's what search engine spiders are looking for!
What is the most important rule for keywords? Less is more: We try to be as descriptive as possible. Imagine what keywords your site visitor would search for. Do also check your competition online. What keywords are they using? Once you selected your keyword choice just forward your selection to us and we will add these keywords to your pages. Please note that it is easier to achieve a good rating when keyword descriptions are narrowed.
What does the term cross-linking and link popularity mean? Cross-linking means establishing a link exchange in a strategically significant position on two or more websites (the bottom of the index page is the best). Your link popularity will vary on each search engine because each engine has a different set of pages in its index. 'Link popularity' means: how many external links on the Web point to your Web site.
How does cross linking effect search engine positions? Search Engine spiders eventually crawl through all links on your website, including the ones linking away to other websites. Case in point: The more often a spider visits your page, the higher the chance that one of your pages is included successfully in the search engine index. Suppose you have several domains: if they have identical themes, they will cross link directly. The spider crawls away from the first website and makes its way through numerous links to secondary domains, then finds its way back to the first site. Thus, the number of times your site will be visited by search engines is doubled, and the intervals at which your site will be submitted is not too short. This last point is important because too frequent submissions is considered spamming.
How does link popularity effect search engine positions? More and more, major search engines rank your pages higher when you have many links to your Web site (i.e., your 'link popularity'). Higher search rankings, of course, translate into greater traffic. For example google.com evaluates your ranking entirely on search engine listing popularity. As with cross-linking, the more links lead to your site, the more ways search engine spiders have of finding you. Therefore, you tend to stay indexed longer and are less frequently dropped from the search engine index. This is especially true for Hotbot, which will drop a website completely after one maintenance cycle (4-6 weeks) if link popularity is insufficient. Some engines like Altavista favor links from popular sites. Therefore, a few links from web sites with a high link popularity score may be given greater importance than a larger number of links from less popular sites. By linking to your other domains, and cross-linking back to your website, the popularity of your website increases and that increases your site's importance to the search engines. Again, the result is better listings.
What type of pages will not be indexed? Sites that require any kind of registration or password lock out search engines. Keep in mind that a web crawler cannot fill out a form of any kind. If you need to fill out a form to get to the next page, the crawler halts right there. A crawler cannot get content from a database, because it cannot fill out a form. If the content of your database is largely text, you might consider creating plain-text static HTML pages with that same content, so they can be indexed and found. Dynamic pages also block Web crawlers. While it's great to give visitors unique experiences, tailored to their needs, the techniques you use to do that could stop search engines from indexing your content and hence could greatly reduce your potential traffic. Dynamically generated pages are created on the fly from a variety of elements held in databases. Typically such pages have a question mark (?) in the URL. When a search engine crawler arrives at such a page, it captures the content but halts immediately, and will not follow the links, because it sees ahead of it an infinite number of pages -- a black hole that would bring it to a crash. Active Server Pages (.asp) with question marks in their URLs (indicating that the page is a script for the construction of a page, rather than just static content) are not indexed. AltaVista also can't index text that is embedded in graphics. Have you ever been to a site that has a huge picture that takes minutes to paint across your screen, with all the words embedded in that picture? Search engines simply cannot "see" the text unless the webmaster puts ALT text behind the picture, describing it and listing those important words. But pictures can be indexed for Images search at AltaVista. Text that appears in multimedia files (audio and video) cannot be indexed, but those files can be indexed at AltaVista for MP3/Audio and Video search. Information that is generated by Java applets or in XML coding cannot be indexed
How long does it take for my website to show in search engines? A number of factors will ultimately decide on results. Cross linking (as mentioned above) over a number of websites is the best way to achieve good ratings. Submission results also depend on the competitiveness of keywords selected. Good listings can be achieved within 6 months. First results usually show after 3 months. Result also vary a great deal according to search engines. Google is usually the most responsive where Excite can take 6 month or longer.
Do you submit my website to Yahoo? Yes! Our new submission services does include regular submissions to yahoo.com For more info please click here.
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