Promotion Idea

[MikeXP]

I think the best way is to submit to search engines heres a few...
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/addurl
http://dmoz.org/add.html
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
http://static.wc.ask.com/docs/addjeeves/submit.html
http://www.infospace.com/info.nbci/kmaint/kdbadd.html
http://searchservices.lycos.com/searchservices/
http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm
http://www.infignos.com/addlisting/speedlist.cfm
http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp
http://listings.looksmart.com/submi...d=zbh&chan=home ($49 list fee)
http://search.iwon.com/commerce/submitasite.jsp ($149-$249 non profit = free)
http://listings.looksmart.com/?synd=&chan=lsaboutft ($49 list fee + pay per click/rank)
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html

And also I really hope you doint mind HTMLForums but in my forums at this post http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=372620&CategoryID=68998&startcat=1&ThreadID=345008 i have a huge list of sites to help promote sites and some more search engine links :)

Hope this info helps

[Jason]

Getting your sites listd in the search engines is a good start, but figuring our how to optomize each one is where the real work starts :)

[darksidepuffin]

Jason is right...BUT when you are a avid user of a extremely helpful webmaster community you have any help you need at your fingertips...and...lets face it,several of the best and most helpfull people you'd ever meet are here.just look at 'Forum Leaders' even the so called 'forum tyrant' is a helpfull guy.So it's less painfull than going solo :D.rather your optimizing for search engines or jumpstarting your first site,lets face it...htmlforums owns....straight up.
:badbob::rocker:

[MikeXP]

Thanks for that :) Also i do agree that META Tags help alot and you should optomize your pages try my meta tag generator at http://sitedeveloper.fateback.com/metagen.htm

[Michael]

Originally posted by Jason
Getting your sites listd in the search engines is a good start, but figuring our how to optomize each one is where the real work starts :)
hmmm I submit my site to major search and now my site can be founded at most of major search engines, but my site ranks so lowso I don't get much hits, can this be because I didn't optomize meta tag? also readerm, I try your meta tag generator, but does it make different if I code meta tag myself from using your generator?:D

[MikeXP]

Michael you should not have to code the META tags yourself because the Generator creates them for you, Just cut and paste into your pages :)

[MikeXP]

Also the big key to search engine optomization is the META tags if they are good then Search Engines like them if not then they doint. Also you can help bring up rankings by getting other sites to link to you :)

Also Michael your S4U site please submit it to our Free resources directiory! because that creates a link :)

[Michael]

hi
big key to search engine optomization is the META tags if they are good then Search Engines like them if not then they doint
how should I do to create a good meta tag?
and readerm, thanks for the offer, I will submit my site right away!

[MikeXP]

The META tag generator will create a perfect set of tags for you to use ;)

[creative666]

Meta tags arent as important as they used to be, in the past people used to stuff the tags with their main keywords over and over again, SE's dont like it so they dont pay as much attention to them as they once did.

Probaly the most important part of SEO is to keep adding more content to your site, if a spider can see your site is stale and old they wont bother to crawl it fully, but if they can see that the site is updated often they will keep visiting, search and index your site. They can tell if the page has been updated because alot of web servers have a the last_updated header turned on, the spider can then see this when the page is requested and then decide if they will have a closer look at the site.

Inbound links are also important, not just because SE's judge how the page is important by the amount of links point to your site, but because if the they are placed on sites that compliment your content then you will get people that are interested in your content and will stay look, around and even spend a little money.

:D

[justjeni]

Probaly the most important part of SEO is to keep adding more content to your site, if a spider can see your site is stale and old they wont bother to crawl it fully, but if they can see that the site is updated often they will keep visiting,

I read something very much like this, too and wonder about those lines of java that put the date your site was last updated on your home page - does that help? I have one on mine, but can't tell if it's helping or not. Plus, in Netscape, that date is all screwed up. I checked it in netscape the other day when I made some lay out changes and it had a date of 1977!!! :confused:

[MikeXP]

Yeah Netscape is a pain when it comes to JavaScripts and theres not much you can do about it, But in my stats for http://sitedeveloper.fateback.com under Browsers Accessed netscape is at the bottom after Opera and MOZILLA :)

[justjeni]

netscape is at the bottom after Opera and MOZILLA

No kidding! :rofl: That's not good for them - course, they're stuck in 1977...:D

[MikeXP]

Hehe yep!

[creative666]

The spider can tell if the page has been updated by the information that the server sends to it along with the page, its all done server side.

last_modified will show the date the page was last uploaded.

[justjeni]

last_modified will show the date the page was last uploaded.

That's the type I'm using. I like it for myself, and it works great in IE, but that stinks in Netscape - today it says, "This site was last updated on: January 1, 1970 GMT"

I mean c'mon, 1970???? Anyone know why they can't handle that little java?

[creative666]

Thats different to what I am talking about though, for what you need it maybe easier to use SSI (server side includes)