Exposing Your Site to the World

After making your website the whole idea is people see your website. But how can they see it if they can?t find the website? In my experience, most of the people forget to do the following crucial step. All you got to do is register your website in all the top search engines like yahoo, Google, alsta vista etc. The following ones are a fee of y favorites with some tops and how to get your self added to each.

Yahoo! When you submit your web address to yahoo, a live person eventually reviews your site to make sure it?s appropriate to be added to the yahoo database. I still haven?t quite figured out the yahoo definition of ?appropriate because you can find some pretty off-color material through Yahoo. So click on www.yahoo.com. When you et there click on the main category that?s appropriate for your site then continue to click on subcategories until you find the one that?s just right for your site. Finally, click on the Add URL icon and follow the directions .

AltaVista is another extremely popular web search engine but it works a little differently than yahoo or Google. Unlike the selective approach of yahoo, the goal of AltaVista is to catalog every single page on the Worldwide Web. The address for AltaVista a is http://www.altavista.digital.com when you go there, you find an Add URL button way at the bottom of the screen, click there and just follow the instructions like you did with yahoo.

Lycos is an older search engine, I?ve discovered that I can often find sites through Lycos that don?t pop up so easily on some of the older search engines. This is another reason why registering your site I lots of different places is a good idea: Different search engines work differently, so its hard to say when your page will come up in a search. By registering with all the search engines, you cover all the bases. Click on http://www.lycos.com/ and then at the bottom of the page Add your site to Lycos and follow the instructions.

WebCrawler is also a great search engine because America online owns and operates this search engine, AOL members are the ones who are most likely to stop by. And with AOL?s membership going up almost by the millions annually that?s quite a few potential hits. Just go to http://www.webcrawler.com/ com an follow the usual routine instructions.