| Question - Which Search Engines
do I need to submit my website to? |
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| Answer - Often people think they need to submit
their website to each Search Engine they want their website to be
listed in. This is not the case!
The only places that you need to submit your website to are the
human powered Directories such as such as Yahoo.com, DMOZ.com. The
reason you need to submit your web page these Directories is unless
you tell them that you have a website out there on the internet
they will never know about you and will never list your website
in their database.
It is not necessary to submit your website to the Search Engines
is because the Search Engines have their very own Search Engine
Spider that automatically crawls all around the web looking for
new web pages to list in their database. That is why all of the
Search Engines have thousands upon millions of more web pages in
their Database than the Directories.
However, just because the Search Engines will eventually find your
website on their own does not mean it is a bad idea to submit your
website to them to insure they notice you do have a website on the
internet. Any Search Engine Optimization Specialist will always
resubmit their clients web page to the Search Engines whenever they
update their clients web page.
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| Question - What are some effective
search strategies? |
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| Answer - Decide whether a search engine or a subject
directory will be the best vehicle. The more specific the information
you need, the more likely you will want to use a search engine.
When using a search engine, be as specific as possible. The amount
of information now on the Internet can be overwhelming. To narrow
down your search results to manageable numbers, use a search engine
that allows the use of boolean operators and enter as many keywords
as possible.
Get used to more than one search engines. You will develop a preference
for a certain engine and it may work well for you but don't forget
the other search engines and, from time to time, try another engine
or a meta engine to ensure that you have achieved good coverage
of the Internet.
Read the "tips" files provided by most engines. You'll
be surprised to find out little things that make life easier. For
instance, AltaVista allows you to use the "+" symbol instead
of writing out the word "AND" when you use boolean operators. |
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| Question - How do search engines
deal with boolean operators? |
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| Answer - The short answer to that question is -
"not consistently". Some engines allow the use of just a
few operators while others provide access to a wide range. Some require
you to enter the operator yourself while others have you select the
operator from a pop-up box. Some allow you to do any kind of search
from the main search page while others require you to go to an "advanced"
page to conduct boolean searches.
Some engines allow you to enter several words into the search term
WITHOUT a boolean operator. However, some search engine will assume
that there is an "or" operator between the words while
others assume the desired operator is "and". Check what
the engine's default operator is before you elect not to enter boolean
operators.
Most search engines are pretty easy to use if you read their help
information. |
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