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Anybody have any secrets to getting your website recognized by search engines? I know about meta tags, and applying to each engine by hand, but has anyone actually paid the fees some engines require and found that productive?
What's the hoakus-poakus?
------------------ Elliot in Maine
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Elloit, we purchased some kinda "program" it makes things very easy(not me who actually does it, its the webmaster)and gets you up with a large # in the top 5 or 10 within a month or two.
Roger
------------------ Roger Bailey Rapid Tac Incorporated Waikoloa, Hawaii
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I found the best or most easily apparent means to get a site listed was to get it on The Open Directory http://dmoz.org/ At the time a lot of search engines were indexing information from it. Things change pretty regularly in the search engine industry so perhaps this has changed too, but served me well about 12 months ago. Bruce Jackson was kind enough to put me onto a discussion group that has also provided some very useful information on the subject: http://www.adventive.com/subscribe.html
HTH, David
------------------ David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com
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Get listed with dmoz and you will eventually turn up in Yahoo, Lycos, HotBot, AltaVista, etc etc.
There's a few other tricks as well..
If you are using frames on your site, get rid of them. If you are using FLASH on your site, get rid of it. If you are using JAVA on your site, get rid of it. If you are using image maps (image buttons for links) get rid of them.
Search engine spiders need to read actual content on the first page so they can then follow the links and crawl the rest of your site, and they cannot read FLASH, JAVA, FRAMES, or Image Maps, which is why you need to get rid of them if you have them.
If your pages are dynamically generated on the fly from templates and databases, search engine spiders cannot read the content so the site does not get indexed.
Make your site load fast. Web spiders get bored quick just like your visitors do, and if your pages take a long time to load the spiders wont even crawl through the site.
------------------ Mike Pipes Digital Illusion Custom Graphics Lake Havasu City, AZ http://www.stickerpimp.com
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