If You Could Submit Just One Page To The Search Engines Which Should It Be?

Listen. Some make submitting pages to search engines sound like the fast track to search engine ranking nirvana. Not to mention you’ll see offers to submit your site to a scadzillion sites for some low nominal fee.

Yeah right. It’s enough to make Pinocchio's nose grow!

Because it’s just not true. Basically there are really only three search engines that count. Google snags more than 60% of all searches. Yahoo 23%. While MSN search has less than 10%. Which leaves a bit over 5% for the remaining scadzillions to fight over.

So don’t fall for the line those snake oil salesmen would have you believe. You know? That submitting to all known search engines will have the bots lining up like addicts at a methadone clinic to get at your site. With traffic following your high search engine rankings shortly thereafter.

Besides it's not even necessary. Since if you have just one link from a site already in Google or Yahoo those bots will find you. Sooner or later. Making it safe to keep your wallet securely in your pants or purse.

Now I tell you all this knowing there may be one exception. But only for those who insist on submitting out of some sense of leaving no stone unturned.

If that's you, do you know which one page might be the only possible exception to the "It Ain’t Necessary to Submit Your Site" rule?

Let me cue up the Final Jeopardy music while you ponder that.

Give up?

Okay, I’m talking about your site map. Reason being your site map points the bots to the promised land of all pages from your site. Or should.

Given that let me make this site map submission thing super quick and easy.

First to insure the bots can’t help but find yours, put a link to your site map in the footer of every page on your site. That’s right, EVERY page. This way no matter which page the bot lands on first it can’t miss your site map. And in turn follow it to all the pages of your site.

But wait. You gotta have a site map to submit a site map, right? Well then, here’s a nifty little site map generator that should be good enough to get you started.

http://www.netroglycerine.com/sitemap.html

It gets high marks from me because it works and it is available at no charge.

Here’s how it works.

Enter your URL. Click none of the check boxes. Then hit ENTER on your keyboard since there is no start or run key on the page. Then right before your very eyes, in seconds, one general issue site map will appear.

Next "View Source". Cut and paste the code into your page template and away you go. One quick and dirty site map ready for submission. Or you can edit it a tad to clean it up a bit.

Oh and if you aren’t enamored with that approach here are some other suggestions. Both free and for fee.

• http://www.site-map.co.uk/build-a-site-map.html using Xenu Link Sleuth
• http://www.searchbliss.com/site-map-generator.htm
• http://www.sitemappro.com/
• http://www.xtreeme.com/sitexpert/

Finally submit your site map page to Yahoo, Google and sooner or later MSN search once it’s unveiled. To help with that here’s the links:

Yahoo http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Anyway, whether you use a tool to shave hours off the process or feel compelled to create your site map by hand, submitting a site map is a once and done deal. Do so and sooner or later a hapless search engine bot will be assigned to check out the page you submitted. When it does it will think it hit web pages paydirt and get busy indexing all pages in your site.

There. Now you know which page, if any, to submit where.

Copyright 2004 John Gergye

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4 Ways to Achieve Top Ranking in Search Engines

Do you have a website or blog that needs more traffic? One way to do that is to receive organic traffic by ranking high in the search engines! Let's take a look at 3 ways you can achieve top ranking in the search engines and enjoy the benefits of the traffic that comes from it.

1. Right now, search engines love blogs. If you don't have a blog you need to start one! Once you have your blog set up, you need to put together a keyword list and post them at around keywords that relate to the theme of your blog.

You should also socially bookmark every blog post that you make. Onlywire.com is one way to submit to multiple social directories with one click. These bookmark posts can serve as search engine bait and help find their way to the top rankings in the search engines for the keywords that you're targeting.

2. Another way to achieve top ranking in search engines is to hyperlink keyword phrases, back to targeted website pages. Google in particular puts a lot of emphasis on hyperlinked keyword phrases. You can find your way on the top pages of Google just by getting more back links that are hyperlinked to a specific phrase.

3. Speaking of back links if you want your website to rank high on the search engines you need a lot of links pointing back to it. Therefore it is important that you concentrate on one way back links as opposed to doing reciprocal linking.

You can achieve excellent search engine rankings by getting quality back links to your site. This can be done in a variety of ways including article marketing, forum marketing, classified advertising, submitting your site to search engines, and so on.

4. A fourth way we want to talk about, to rank high in search engines is to actually pay for your traffic. The fastest way to get on page 1 of any search engine is to buy the traffic in the form of a pay per click advertising campaign.

Although this will not technically rank you high, you will be on page 1 and then getting traffic in a matter of minutes when you set up a campaign for example with Google Adwords. This can be expensive, so be careful not to overstep your bounds before you're aware of exactly what you are doing.

Organic traffic is better than paid traffic because searchers look at the organic websites first, and because the cost is substantially less to you as an advertiser. Hopefully these three ways to rank in search engines as well as the pay per click way will be helpful to you.

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