A successful submittal can mean lots of visitors!

It's not a complicated process, but if done correctly, it's labor intensive.

There are services which promise to register your page for you. Some are excellent and take a very thorough, customized approach. But others offer a "shotgun" approach, which is much less effective. Also, some will brag about placing you on hundreds of search engines and/or services, though most are very obscure and hard enough to find themselves! Keep in mind that fewer than a dozen search engines and directories handle more than 90 percent of all search requests*.

Submission Report (click to enlarge)

Link Check Report (click to enlarge)

We can perform search engine submittal for you. We use state-of-the-art submittal and monitoring software. As a part of your promotional campaign, we'll recommend the most effective keywords for getting your site noticed. If high placement is important to you, it's wise to run a proper submittal campaign the first time you post your site. If you like, we will periodically check your site's status with search engines and verify that all your links are functioning and send you a complete report.

You can also purchase higher placement from some search engines. This can be expensive, but will often work out well if you have a product or service for sale.

However you choose to handle registration of your page, you should be aware that the pages with the highest traffic tend to be the ones which have been promoted beyond the Internet. This promotion can take the form of traditional advertising (that "www..." you see on print and television ads) and listing your URL on your business cards. You should also include your URL in your e-mail "signature."

* According to Alexa.com, the top eight search engines process more than 92% of all web searches.

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