ok...I'm a webmaster and I have no idea how to get proper link exchange so that I can get my websites on the search engines. Does anyone know of ways how to optimize a website, or any software that can do this, to get on top listings on search engines without paying anything?
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Webmasters are busy people and rarely have time to spare but you are just going to have to make time to read up on this topic...\n\nRead your way through the tutorial here http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php and when you have finished you will know everything you need to know.
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The sources that imisidro gives above are all good (except the keyword density tool which is useless).  The problem is, as you say, that most sources are confusing and a little overwhelming. Not only that but the forums in particular will often contain conflicting advice, misinformation and always have a high proportion of 'noise'.\n\nThere are however two reliable and up to date resources, both from experts and designed for those just starting out on the SEO discovery. They are http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php and http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php\n\nAnd one last piece of advice, please remember there are no shortcuts in SEO and it is actually quite hard work!\n\nGood luck!
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The best software tools I have come across are SEO Elite and IBP. However, you are much better off learning SEO by reading tutorials and books like Aaron Wall's SEO Book. \n\nI left a few sites to look at in the source section (note the first one is mine).\n\nAll the best with your efforts. Also, remember SEO is not the only way to get traffic to your website.
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The problem here is relevancy -- what's to guarantee that the sites you link to and who link back to you are relevant to your own?\n\nWithout relevancy you're just getting random traffic -- this isn't an optimization, it's just another way to lead customers on a walk around the web and annoy them when they can't find what they want.\n\nI'd post more but I didn't read too deeply into the website. It's more work than I prefer to do on this website, and anyway, you'd think that they'd explain the relevancy question in bold type on the front page instead of talking about how much traffic you can get.  That's very 1990's, banner-ad marketing-thought, not at all appropriate for the current age.
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Get some high-traffic sites to link back to your site. This is the idea behind Google's page-rank algorithm I believe.\n\nYou should also do some research on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Like a keyword in the title or <h1> might carry more weight etc.
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It will take sometime for the search engines to pick up your site. You  can submit your site to search engines. However you need to build your site crawler freindly. Crawler are the robotic application who are on intrnet in search of the websites and add the site to the search engine's database.\n\nHere is guideline on how to develope a crawler friendly webstie.\n\n\nhttp://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html\n\nHere is another link on how to add your site to yahoo search engine.\n\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/suggest/suggest-01.html\n\nfollow the steps and add your site to yahoo.
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I suppose what you called Search Engine Registration is the form provided by search engines to submit your URL.  Well, it's worth to try, but it can took months to get your website on search engines, especially Google and Yahoo. Good news is Google now has a service called Google Sitemaps. With that you can get listed in Google under 3 days. Check my sources, there is an article I wrote about it.\n\nSetting Keywords & Description should be done before you submit it to search engines. No, keyword & description is not important anymore to get your website on search engine. Now search engines like Google is more interested in how many websites out there on the Internet which has a link to your website. To know more about it you can download my free ebook about search engine optimization.\n\nThe difference between search engines and directory registration is that directory registration is reviewed by real human, while search engines is by machine.\n\nYou can focus only on Google and Yahoo, but Yahoo is harder to beat. And don't believe those paid services telling you they can submit on 1000+ search engines. Frankly, there are only about 200 of them, I suppose. The other may just a website full of links and can get your website blacklisted from the real search engines.
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Google & Yahoo have different search engines and operate differently from one another. What you want to do is contact Yahoo and get them to explain how their engine works, and what you can do to increase your site rank.\n\nIf you are PAYING to be on Yahoo, then you need to contact your account rep immediately to fix the issue.
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To get your site listed properly you first need to put a meta title tag in your code...  I think some of your current meta tags may be causing issues as well. I would have to go back and check but you dont want to tell google to not cache your page for instance.\n\nThese days the best way to get your site indexed is to place links to it on other websites... Directories, forums(signatures).... it should only take a few days. Don't bother trying to submit it manually its a total waste of time.\nBlogs on your website are probably the fastest way to do it.. this due to the fact you can submit your blogs rss feed to hundreds of sites who post your blog entries for free.\n\nhope that helps...
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To submit your website to the different search engines. You can do that by the following links:\n\n(1) Yahoo Submit :\nhttp://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request\n\n(2) Google Site Submit :\nhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=X&revid=754385775&qpos=0&upos=0&oi=revisions_inline&q=http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl\n\n(3) MSN Site Submit :\nhttp://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2\n\n(4) DMOZ Site Submission:\nhttp://dmoz.org/add.html\n\n(5) Other search engines :\nhttp://www.addme.com/submission.htm\n\nTo improve upon your ranking in the search results, you also need to get links from other websites. You can tell your friend sites to link you up. Also if your site has good content, websites may link you up, thus helping in imporving your page rank. I have already written a detailed answer on improving your page rank, you can use it from the following link :\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AnlkuxJ5gZrSTi2.Tl6g6CkjzKIX?qid=1006010601100
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Several criteria determine the amount of traffic your website gets but by far the most important are to have a good search engine ranking and good links to your site.\n\nSearch engines use a complicated and secret algorithm to determine which sites are placed where in the rankings but there are several tricks you can employ to boost you ranking.\n\nThere's lots of articles on the net to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but I ignore all of them and do things my way.  This seems to work as every site I've created ranks within the top 6 on Google even when there's millions of results found.  A site I created less than a week ago is already ranked number 1 by Yahoo and Google.\n\nThese are some of my tips...\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A GOOD TITLE TAG --\nOne of the first things a search engine looks at is the title tag of the page. When writing the tag use the same words people are likely to key in when using a search engine.  For example, if your page is about space travel then a title such as "Space Travel - Be a Shuttle Rocket Tourist and Journey to the Moon" is much better than "All about flying to the moon and back".  Why?  Because the first tag includes words people are likely to use in a search engine such as space, travel, shuttle, rocket, tourist, journey and moon.\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A RELEVANT NAME --\nSearch engines look at page names.  If your domain was mydomain.com then a page name such as mydomain.com/space-travel will do much better than mydomain.com/section1/part2/page3.\n\n-- USE THE DESCRIPTION TAG --\nSome search engines including Google support this tag - others don't.  \n\nCompare a Yahoo search for 'Black Eyed Peas' to a Google Search.  Both of them find blackeyedpeas.com but Yahoo describe it as "... Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit ... The Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and others ...".  Google uses the description tag and describes it as "Official site includes videos, message boards, tour dates, and photo gallery. Additional content is available to members."\n\n-- USE THE ALT TAG --\nSome search engines ignore the alt tag, others include it when spidering your site.  Not only that but some visually impaired users and power-surfers who turn off images rely on alt tags.\n\n-- FLASH ANIMATION / SCRIPTING / DHTML --\nSpiders are unable to follow these linking systems.  If all your pages are linked using Flash, DHTML or scripts then the spider won't follow the links and your pages won't get indexed.  If you're designing your site this way the least you can do it to include conventional text links to the main pages of your site and ideally to a Site Map that contains text links to every page.\n\n-- SPLASH PAGES --\nThese are the animated front pages to a site, usually nothing there other than an animation and a 'Skip Intro' link.  Spiders don't like Splash and as this is the doorway to your site think carefully before creating one.\n\n-- DOORWAY PAGES --\nThese are pages that exist on a site but are not accessible to the visitor, if someone tries to access the page they are redirected elsewhere.  Historically webmasters created such pages and stuffed them full of popular keywords and phrases.  \n\nSpiders have wised up to Doorways and there's nothing better for getting yourself pushed right down in the rankings or kicked out altogether than use of Doorway Pages.\n\n-- HIDDEN TEXT --\nSome web pages hide text by printing white text on a white background for example.  Often such text has nothing at all to do with the site but is just a list of popular words and phrases used to draw people to the site.  Spiders can spot tricks like these and will penalise sites that employ such tactics.\n\n-- PUT A HEADING ON YOUR PAGE --\nThe heading should closely match the page title.  You need to format the heading as a Heading Style a
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skip the sitemap for now.\nto add other pages put them up on your server, however you do it! lots of tools around to make it simplier.... but just changing an existing page and putting it on the server is enough\n\nto get the search engines to look at it, and actual people, you need a link to the new page,\n\nto get better placement in the search engines, you set the document title, description, and keywords for each page. The more info the better!\n\n<META name="description" content="3 answers - I need to add some extra pages to my existing web site, and create a site map for better google rankings. I appreciate any helpful answers, please make the answers as simple as possible because all th..." />\n<META name="keywords" content="yahoo, answers,  questions, Programming & Design" />\n<title>Yahoo! Answers - Anyone knows how to add extra pages to a website and how to create a sitemap without spending a fortune????</title>\n\nwere taken from this page!\n\nsitemaps are for helping the search engines, if there are lots of disconnected pages (not linked)
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Man, Obviously your site are ranking high in google with such keyword phrase, because it is posible that only you are targeting that keyword phrase all over the internet.\n\nSearch Engines nowadays one of the thing that take in consideration the most are links, so probably your blog is not indexed because there are not too much useful, related and valuable links to your site. So try to get some inbound links.\n\nOther thing you can do is to submit your site domains to major search engines and directories, at this way you are presenting your sites to Search engines.\n\nIf you want to have a SEO job well done for your site and start receiving traffic from searches, you have to create a metatags area where you select the right keywords you would like to get positioned at search engines, after this if you can, hire a SEO Representative to help you with your site, project or business.\n\nI recommend you http://www.seorepresentative.com\n\nSo, contact your SEO Representative to get your site indexed at major search engines
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You need to submit your website to the different search engines. You can do that by the following links: \n\n(1) Yahoo Submit :\nhttp://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request\n\n(2) Google Site Submit :\nhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=X&revid=754385775&qpos=0&upos=0&oi=revisions_inline&q=http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl\n\n(3) Other search engines :\nhttp://www.addme.com/submission.htm\n\nTo improve upon your ranking in the search results, you also need to get links from other websites. You can tell your friend sites to link you up. Also if your site has good content, websites may link you up, thus helping in imporving your page rank.
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You may want to search for the data you need from the Internet Retailer magazine http://www.internetretailer.com - they always have case studies and featured companies that talk of the most effective ways of bringing in traffic and sales.\n\nIn our case, 83% of our traffic comes from search engines. We did not pay for search engine optimization; we just did it inhouse through trial and error. Only about 10% comes from paid advertising. We feel that the effort we put in understanding the SEs paid off as it is free traffic.
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Submit your site to search engines:\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/webmasters.php\n\nfind people to link\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/howtoincreasehits.php
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No, Google isn't the best, but it is the most popular in the USA and UK -- which makes it the most popular.\n\nWhy use Google (or any of the 200 or so search engines) when you can use a METASEARCH ENGINE that searches more than one search engine at the same time -- including Google?!\n\nFor example, Ask.com searches Google as well as Altavista, Excite etc.\n\nSeems pretty daft to restrict yourself to merely one...\n\nGoogle are too powerful anyway -- didn;t they just throw BMW off for trying to get a better Google ranking?\n\nWeb designers go mad, and millions of web pages HAVE to be redesigned every time Google changes it's ranking rules -- which they do often.  Web designers find a small loophole that gets their sites onto the first Google returns page, and Google discover the loophole and close it... it's been cat and mouse like that for years.\n\nIn the source code for web pages there are metatags that web designers use for search engines -- a description of the site, keywords and so forth.  OK, so this got abused by a few unscrupulous folk, so Google no longer uses these tags at all. So Google descriptions tend to be the top menus, left menus or ads!  Google-wise sites all have the navigation on the right side as a result!\n\nThe more sites that link to your site, the higher ranked you will be.\n\nThe more links from your site to other sites the higher ranked you will be.\n\nIn addition, each linked site is ranked, such that if a high ranked site links to you, then you get Google kudos.\n\nBut, last year (because everyone started doing a LINKS page for their site), the links have to be relevant and in the course of the text of each page!\n\nThen recently, Google decided that each page has to have a keyword saturation -- and that the links had to relate to the saturation percentage!\n\nPut simply, if you design and upload a website, if no-one links to you, if you link to no other site (why should you?), you take no Google Ads, banner exchange etc, and (heavens above) you use a frame set or even have your domain name point to a frame page (cloaked redirection), then Google will not find you.\n\nYou will be found within a very short time by hundreds of sites around the world -- you can submit directly to them, they will use your meta tags, keywords and text strings.\n\nIn summary... if you want to FIND relevant sites, use a  MAJOR METASEARCH ENGINE, such as 20, 37, Beaucoup, Dogpile, Debriefing, IXQuick, Kartoo, Search.com, Vivisimo, etc. or use a directory engine or indexing engine (INDICE).\n\nGoogle? pah! Hyped by men in suits!