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Search Engine Registration for
Genealogy and History Websites
This comprehensive tutorial was written by Kristen K.
RESUBMISSIONS
It takes search engines anywhere from 6-8 weeks to start indexing your site. The best way to check if your submissions have taken is to do a search in each search engine for your site. If you do not see your site, it is safe to resubmit. Make sure not to submit your site too frequently, no more than once every two months.
Once your site is in a directory such as Yahoo, it is not necessary to resubmit unless your site is dropped completely from the listings.
If you are not satisfied with your pages' rankings, you may try adjusting the keywords in your title or the content on the page. Sometimes it takes trial and error before your listing shows up high enough. Patience is also key- search engines work on their own schedules, and get thousands of sites submitted daily. It takes them a while to sort through all the submissions.
OTHER WAYS TO BRING IN TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE
"Link popularity" is a big catch phrase with search engines these days. Google uses this as a huge factor when ranking sites. Link popularity is simply how many sites link to yours. Exchanging links with fellow webmasters or joining web rings is a good way to boost your link popularity.
There are some places where getting a link is useless. These are "FFA" or "Free-For-All" pages. FFA's are just pages of thousands of links on one page. Search engines are trained to ignore these pages, as they have no real value. When you hear that a search engine registration service will submit you to 500,000 pages, about 95% of the pages are FFAs. Getting listed in search engines is about quality; FFA links will do you no good. In fact, your email spam will be worse than ever before if you submit to FFAs. Some FFAs are simply set up for solicitors to collect email addresses.
THE END OF SEARCH ENGINES
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