I am sure you have seen a lot of offers on the Internet promising to submit
your web page to 500 or more Search Engines for a fee up to $375.00 or more.
First of all, there are not 500 Search Engines on the Internet. There are
only about 35 Prime Search Engines. Search Engines send out electronic
spiders to roam the Internet web looking for web pages with the keyword
listed in the browser. The spiders find the keywords, that closely match,
stored in indexed databases throughout the web and deliver the results in
rank of relevance. Search Engines search through their own database as well
as the world wide web.

The promise to submit your web page to 500 Search Engines contains indexed
database websites, cataloged by subject. The search return results on these
particular websites are from their own indexed database and not the world
wide web. These websites may not be well known to the average customer.
Submitting your web page to cataloged websites may not prove to be worth your
while nor money from an advertising point of view.

If you want to generate hits to your site, the best process you can do for
your web page is to MANUALLY submit your web page to each Search Engine.
Submittal Services can submit your web page URL to Search Engines with an
automatic submittal software for a fee. They could not submit MANUALLY
because it would take them too many hours to do this for each customer.
Obviously, it would not be profitable for them. When you manually submit to
each Search Engine, you will receive an email notification from each Search
Engine that your submittal has been received.

Each Search Engine reserves the right to choose which URL appear in their
database. Most of your major Search Engines will not even take an automatic
software submittal. They prefer MANUAL submittals only. You have a much
better chance getting into their databases by MANUALLY typing in each
submittal. To achieve a better chance at getting your website listed in the
search returns, read the instructions of each Search Engine and MANUALLY type
each submittal. You may have the greatest website on the Internet, but if it
is not submitted properly to the Search Engines, the traffic you long for
will not occur.

Now that the web page achieved a listing in the indexed databases of Search
Engines, check once a month into each database to make sure you remain
listed. As I stated before, Search Engines reserve the right to choose which
URL appear in their database and eliminating your URL for no apparent reason
can occur. Never duplicate your web page submittals to Search Engines
continually because this is very irritating to them and they will drop your
submittal. Should you discover your web page eliminated from the database,
manually submit your URL again.

After you have manually submitted your URL to each Search Engine, do not
expect your website to be listed in their database within 24 hours. Listings
occur within 2 weeks to 6 months that varies with each Search Engine.

The next step to bringing traffic to your website is marketing it. While you
are waiting for your website to occur in the Search Engine databases,
generate traffic to your website by marketing it through various sources on
the Internet. Some say banner advertising and link exchange is the best way
to promote traffic to your website. However, research to this method is
discovering that people are becoming immune to banners and links more and
more, just like we all become immune to billboards. However, banners and
links do work for some websites.

Internet free classified ads are helpful in generating traffic to your
website. Some of the classified sites will show up in a Keyword Search
return, listing your web address as part of their database.

The traditional way of advertising is always a good source in generating
traffic, especially when the website is new to the Internet. Mail postcards
or flyers to customers informing them of your web address. Run small ads in
newspapers and magazines, listing your web address for further details about
your company. Having a website that runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is
the ULTIMATE AD about your company. Small companies can now afford to run
small ads in major newspapers and magazines using alluring keywords to lead
the consumer to their web page address.

The success of your website will require a lot of work, manual labor and
constant marketing. Using these tools will keep the traffic coming. One
more important feature to consider is to always improve the appearance of
your website. Keep it updated. Give the consumer a reason to return to your
website, as well as referring your website to others. Get tips and enhance
your knowledge about your website traffic and security by copying and pasting
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About the Author
Donna Hassell
TutorMarketeer
TMarketeer@aol.com