Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Submission

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Mac House is not a search engine optimization (SEO) company. But we've accumulated knowledge over this subject for the past years and are giving out free tips that will help you promote your site and get it posted on search directories.
You don't have to pay hundreds of dollars or even thousands of dollars to have your web site posted on search engines. Web site optimization and search engine submission aren't easy if you don't know what steps to take. That doesn't necessarily meant that you cannot optimize your web site for yourself. On this site, there are all the tips you need to submit your site to search engines.

Have you ever submitted your website but never had it posted on search directories? If you are one of them who had had that painful experience, you just need to understand how the search engine works. Remember, with all the tips you read here, if you can't have your web site posted on major search engines, the best SEO can't do it on your behalf, either.
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Search engine submission is not just send your web site to search engines.

Submitting a website on your own

• What are search engines?
• How the search engine works
• History of search engines
• What determines rankings
• Links and rankings
• To improve page rankings
• Bad practies
• Search engines, true or false
• Conclusion

What are Search Engines?

Last updated: July 25, 2005

When we talk about search engines, we usually mean web sites where millions or even billions of querries are processed online every day. These search-database service providers include AlltheWeb, AltaVista, AskJeep, AOL Search, Google, MSN Search, Yahoo! and so forth.
     As far as site submission is concerned, the phrase search engine actually refers to both the search directory (like business phone directory or yellow pages with categories) and the the listing provider, and we don't really bother to distinguish one from the other. The former definition includes Goto, ODP and Yahoo! And the other definition includes Google and Looksmart.
     In addition, the phrase search engine also refers to the spider (or crawler). It is also called robot. But it's not really a robot per se as you talk about its function. It is software that is used to index websites on the web. (Read 'History to search engines.') Yahoo uses Inktomi's Slurp. Google has Googlebot. And MSN Search uses MSNBot. The spider travels from one site to another by following links given by html tags like 'a href=' and 'img src' and goes back to the index database to store the site information it has collected.
     So how often does the spider visit your web site? Some spiders visit your web site as often as you request it to with a meta tag. Some never will once they show up. How can you tell when a spider or which spider visited your web site? Your web hosting service may allows you to check statistics of the activity on your homepage.

Search engine optimization starts even when you decide to build a new web site.