| Listing and links to important Search Engines and Directories by Selfpromotion.com and another by Searchengines.com |
There are really only less than 10 important Search Engines with google, yahoo and open directory being the most important. |
>>> Keyword and keyphrase selector tool by Overture.
To view the bidding prices for search terms on overture click here. |
Deciding what key words and phrases will be used by desired visitors to your site is the key starting point. WordTracker is another tool for picking the right keywords, they charge for their service but offer a free trial. |
| SearchDay newsletter |
SearchDay is a free daily newsletter from Search Engine Watch featuring web search news, reviews, tools, tips, and search engine headlines from across the web. This is for the person who really wants to fine tune his SE optimization |
| Link popularity 101 |
The more links to your site the better. But quality of links does count over quantity. This is a course in how to optimize this aspect and costs $. |
| >>> How to see who's linked to you: |
Use these links to manually check your link popularity:
AllTheWeb enter: link.all:www.url.com
AltaVista enter: link:www.url.com
Google enter: link:www.url.com Remember, Google syndicates its search results, so there is no need to search for links to your site on any of the sites which use Google results (AOL, Yahoo!, Netscape, Disney's Go.com, Alexa, and iWon).
MSN enter: link:www.url.com
Yahoo! enter: link:www.url.com |
| Where to make changes in your yahoo listing |
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| Using Google Adwords |
This is a pay per click feature in google. |
| Suggestions for using Overture |
This is also a pay per click |
| Free submission page to Google |
Sometimes hard to find |
| How to promote your site |
A great overall tutorial on SE optimization and website marketing. Its free and its where I got most of these links. |
