Hi there,
Registering a site with a search engine is simply telling the search
engine the address of your site. Some of the major search engines have
a page where you can do this. The process is extremely simple, and to
be sure it actually gets done, it is best to do it yourself.
Google
://www.google.com/addurl.html
AlltheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
AltaVista
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
It can take up to 1-2 months to appear in search engine results. I do
not recommend any 3rd party service for free submissions.
There is also a trend towards paid inclusion. It is the only way for a
commercial site to get into Yahoo Directory, Inktomi, Looksmart and
Teoma, and is a faster way to get into AltaVista and AlltheWeb.
At least 90% of search engine traffic originates from Google's index,
and if you are new to running a website, the free submissions would
probably suffice. Otherwise, I have written about the paid inclusion
services here:
http://searchenginez.com/paid_submit.html
Keywords are two things:
1) When you use a search engine, they are the words you are searching
for.
2) For webmasters, they are the words you are trying to promote in
search engines, by placing them a few times in the text of the page,
in the title and in headings.
A long time ago, a lot of importance was placed on the META keywords
tag which appears in the <head> section of a page's HTML code. Because
many webmasters filled this tag with words unrelated to their site,
purely to trick search engines, the keywords tag is now virtually
ignored by search engines, and is only really useful for placing
common mispellings of the keywords you are targeting, if even that.
If the submission form for any search engine has a place for entering
keywords, you safely can ignore it.
Space delimited describes a file of information, where each piece of
data is seperated by spaces. In terms of search engine submission and
keywords, it is simply saying that rather than entering keywords like
this:
keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword
they require:
keyword keyword keyword keyword keyword
Let me know where you were asked to submit keywords in this manner,
and it is highly likely I will respond with either "you are wasting
your time using this service" or "they will cause you more trouble
than their service is worth".
If my answer isn't clear, of you have further questions on this theme,
feel free to ask for a clatification.
Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga |
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