by Ronald Brown

Created on: July 11, 2009

Getting your web site listed quickly in search engines foryour Internet marketingstrategy is something every web site owner wants to do. Many web site owners don't really know how to do this, though. Fortunately for them, there are several ways to getting your web site listed quickly, all of which we will go over in this article. These ways include submitting the URL to search engines and web directories, using proper keywords and keyword density on your web pages, building links to your web site, submitting press releases, and blog marketing.

Tip #1: Submit your URL manually to search engines and web directories

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.com all have options for you to manually submit your web site. Before submitting, however, it is important to make sure of the following:

All pages on your web site are complete. Search engine spiders won't touch incomplete web sites. Your web site is not full of spam and/or excessive use of keywords. Yet again, spiders won't touch spam sites, which means your site, will be skipped over if it contains lots of spam.

When you submit the web site, make sure to submit it only once to each search engine. Submitting multiple times to the same search engine will get you nowhere. In fact, search engines might keep your site from ever having a chance at being listed.

Tip #2: Use keywords to search engines to come to your web site

Search engine absolutely love web sites with good, well-placed and well-used keywords and key phrases. In other articles, we have covered the correct use of keywords and key phrases, so you might already be familiar with it. If not, we'll briefly touch on it right now.

Keywords are words that are used frequently on a web site that search engines look for. The key to correct usage of keywords is to make them fit naturally throughout a piece of content and not look like spam. Before writing your content for your web site, take a second to decide what the content is about. Then make a list of keywords or key phrases that seem to fit with the topic at hand. Next, write the content and try to sprinkle in the keywords or key phrases throughout the content in a natural, non-distracting way. When you are done writing the content, you should count the number of keywords or key phrases. Then divide that by the total number of words in content. If the number you get is between 1-3%, you're good to go. If it's below 1%, try to naturally add in keywords or key phrases. If it's above 5%, try

• 1
• 2
• Next Page >>