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Promoting your eBusiness!
If you currently have no marketing plan in place for your website, the only way to generate
traffic is by customers finding your site through their search engine queries. Make no
mistake: three quarters of all web traffic is generated this way. The customers are out there
and they are looking for your product or service. But it is up to you to display your
"Open for Business" sign in the window by getting listed on as many quality search engines as possible.
Below is a list of the most popular search engines which offer free site submissions. To submit your
website for indexing, click one of the search engines below. When you are there, look for a link called
"submit a site" or "add a URL". Then enter your site information as required.
Beware of Gimmicks!
Be careful about the "free" submission services that promise to send your site to the
"Top 1000 Search Engines!" This is often a scam designed to get your email
address and sell it to spammers. What you get is junk mail but no search engine listing.
In reality, those "Top 1000 Search Engines" get their listings from a few larger search engines
listed below, so if you get your website indexed by "the big few", your site's listing is
sure to propagate to many of the smaller search engines.
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Search Engine Optimization
Submitting your website is a good first step in getting noticed on the World Wide Web. But if
your website ranks poorly in the search results, you're still missing a huge portion of targeted traffic.
BizHOST's Search Engine Optimization Service has been designed to achieve top 2% rankings among many
of the web's most popular search engines. For example, if 1000 web pages turn up in a search query, a BizHOST
optimized website will turn up in the top 20 for a set of pre-determined keyword combinations. It's that simple.
No Gimmicks, No Hype, just results.
BizHOST Search Engine Optimization Service is performed manually, one page at a time.
Your website's progress is monitored closely over several months. And your top 2% results
are guaranteed or you don't pay!
| Optimization Rates (In Canadian Dollars) |
| Number of Pages |
Fee |
| 1-3 |
$169.99/page |
| 4-9 |
$129.99/page |
| 10+ |
$89.99/page |
 To subscribe to the BizHOST Search Engine Optimization Service,
call 1-800-832-5456 today! |
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Submission to Search Engines & Web Directories: |
| U.S. Search Engines |
Inclusion Timeline |
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Canadian Search Engines |
Inclusion Timeline |
| Google |
4 weeks |
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Sympatico |
4 weeks |
| Alta Vista |
5 weeks |
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Alta Vista Canada |
5 weeks |
| Ixquick |
6 weeks |
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| All The Web |
6 weeks |
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Web Directories |
Inclusion Timeline |
| Lycos |
6 weeks |
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Yahoo! |
26 weeks |
| Northern Light |
6 weeks |
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Open Directory Project |
10 weeks |
| HotBot |
8 weeks |
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AOL |
12 weeks |
| Direct Hit |
6 weeks |
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Netscape Search |
12 weeks |
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When to Submit Your Site
For search engines, all we can say is "Submit, Submit, Submit"! Although search engines do not
guarantee your site will be indexed upon your first submission, be patient! Your site will eventually
get spidered by their robot and listed. If you do not find your site within the various "inclusion timelines"
listed above, submit your site again - it usually takes two or three submission before you see any results.
Be sure not to submit too often or your site will be dropped from the index.
Web Directories are a different kind of animal altogether. They are edited and updated by real flesh
and blood human beings. Because of the volume of submissions they receive every day, it takes
considerably longer for your site to show up in web directories. Also, it is not necessary to submit
your website to all web directories on the net. That's because many of them extract their information from
a small group of central directories. For example, the
Open Directory Project powers the core directory
services for popular search engines and portals such as Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot,
DirectHit, and hundreds of others.
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