Submission Tips

All,
This is a compilation of many of the things I have found and discovered during my own submission processes, a few hints and helps that I have found along the way. First of all, if you are going to seriously market your site you will want to use site submission engines, but for many of the reaons you wouldn’t think of; There are many Site Submission engines that are top in many engines and directories as far as relevence. When you use their site for submission they send out your link to a whole bunch of search engines but also a bunch of FFA (Free For All) pages. Some of these pages, believe it or not, are at the top of some hot Directory’s and simply having your link on their page will allow your site to always be co-ranked as far as relevence. It is a huge help, more than you can know and it will be helpful for exposure. Not to the public per se, at first. But to the engines and crawlers.

** Site Submission Tools**

  1. If you use them, (Site Submission Tools) make sure you take out a new garbage e-mail address for the return junk mail which will NEVER stop once you do this. Ignore this rule at your own peril. i.e [email protected]

  2. Never pay for it. There are so many for free and it is the same exact service. It doesn’t take terribly long to do but you should set aside at least 1/2 - 1 full day for this alone. But it is helpful. Make sure you spend adequete time on the Foreign search engines in such countries as Brazil, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, India, etc…(See others below)

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Kirupa has 570 URL’s that link to it. Thats an awful large number for such a short time. Now heres what happens at Yahoo when someone does a search for any of those other URL’s; Yahoo, is a directory, NOT a search engine. When one of those other sites that link to Kirupa gets closer to the top as far as relevence and popularity, Kirupa’s site too will rise in relevence rating within the Yahoo Directory Structure. Wanna see it yourself, go to Yahoo and punch in, link: (just 5 charachters, the word link and a semicolon, cant do it in brackets it turns to a smiley, Maudit!) before the entire web address for any site you wish this information on. It will then show you all the sites that Yahoo has in their directory with links to Kirupa, and other Directories and engines that it searches through it’s meta-crawlers as well.

** Reverse Relevance**
But it works in reverse as well. Hence many will see part of the scheme of my site. www.corpust.com Yahoo does the same thing backwards so to speak. Sites with many links that are highest in Yahoo’s relevence are treated in the same fashion. Those sites will rise in relevence in the searches and the site will appear more and more, the higher those other links sites are in relevence. i.e. My site will generate a lot of traffic within a short amount of time if for no other reason than my selection of links. They are all top notch links and the most popular sites on the Net. In other words the search engines and crawlers will welcome my site with open arms as I splashed into the net linking to all the favorites, that consequently are high in relevence and searches.

** Key Words**
As pointed out above, they are essential for traffic. Big black penis by the way is one of the top hitters at Go.com. Another is Aliens, Roswell, and UFO’s. Throw in Britney Spears breast exposed at last! and you will indeed find it generates extra traffic to your site. So make sure your key words are extensive and very telling and manipulative. But the size limit to this is 874 charachters. Do not go over this magic arbitrary number.

** Key-Words should have corresponding links**
Another search tip is to have key-words & links that are self-linked. In other words, if you have a key word being; flying saucer, there should be a corresponding link on your page, ‘flying saucer’ or else the crawler will take points away and award you a lower relevence in it’s directory when it returns home.

** Meta- Tags**
So make sure your Meta Tags are all filled out and overflowing so to speak. More is more in this case. Meta-KeyWords, Meta-Description, and Meta something or another. This is ultra important for a new site. Make sure they also do not exceed these number, charachter limits. 60 charachters for the title. 150 charachters for the description, and no more than 874 charachters for the keywords. All above are including the spaces and carriage returns and commas.

** Meta Decription**
In this case, less is more. Most crawlers will only pick up/upto the first 150 charachters. This is the desciption you might see if you were at Yahoo and did a search. Each site that comes up will show you like 10, 0r 25 or 50 words to describe the site. This description is the Meta Description function in HTML. These descriptions must be supplied to the engines and crawlers via the meta Desrciption. So be very concise and make it very descriptive. Make the description grab out to the searcher and say, click me, click me! Because that is what they are going to see when doing a search and your site comes up.

** To Spam or not to Spam**
Spend time spamming the ****ography boards with your link, it works! And your only helping these poor souls be distracted with something more wholesome, like your website that has no pictures of Britney Spears Breasts or big black penis’s. Doh! I got a lot of visitors, regular visitors to an older site I used to have with these methods. It works! I feel it is also fair since they hog all the bandwith on the net with their dirty pictures, to cause them a little annoyance. Easy crowd too! Doh! Newsgroups are excellent as far as getting recognition; They too werk on the directory method posted above, but they are also catalogued in the search engines and directories, thus it will help your relevence if your website appears in their newsgroups. It’s worth the time. And don’t spam the newsgroups, just a somber warning. This is one group that will turn and tear you to pieces. Just work it in slowly, following the rules. This werks though and is one highly effective long term method of exposure. Once your link finally gets posted somehwere in a newsgroup, in a harmless way, it will act as a linked site, and depending on the relevence it has in the Yahoo or other search directories will reward you hansomely with new visitors and a higher relevence with Yahoo.

** Content:**
Have something that will cast the biggest net for people coming to your site. And make sure there is a big net to keep them their when they finally come. People want their news. They want to search. And they want the governments corruption all in one easy to find place. Hence my site, our site actually, I am just the Webmaster of the Corpus Tyrannicus Research Institute. www.corpust.com I think it will be a draw for people. I am even starting to like my site, and Im frellin picky. I already have 384 internal links. And like 13,524 external links, if Dreamweaver is telling me the truth, I think it’s lying.

** Expired links & Extra money**
Now many of those links are expired or will expire. No problem, once I set up my 404 file page, they will be directed to a 404 site that pays me 4 cents for each and every one of those suckers. I cannot police 18,000 links. And many of them are in archived stories that most will not click on, reference stuff and stuff.

** International Submission**
Spend time in other countries submitting your site. This got me the most traffic. France, Germany, Canada, Britain, Singapore, Russia, China, Tiawan, Australia!!-These are good places and needful if you want international traffic right away (4-6 weeks). Expect it to take about 6 weeks for your website to be thoroughly spidered throughout the web, worldwide after submission unless you come and beg me for little tricks on how to speed this up. :wink: Make sure your site is in it’s permanent URL as well. Don’t be trigger happy with these steps. Each in it’s own turn. Do not place your unfinished site in your respective URL till it is finished, This is how many excellent site never make it to any directories. They build them on site and are unaware that the crawlers have already been there 5 times before they finish and have deemed it a ‘user’ site with the lowest possible relevence. It might indeed be listed somehwere in Yahoo, but it will be somewhere around 105,262 out of 106,000 links found. Not good. Not findable, not searchable. An albatross for all intents and purposes.

** Now that your site is up…**
Make sure the servers know. Go to as many sites as possible FROM your site. This will catalogue YOUR NEW URL into their New URL Directory and each and every ‘portalpoint’ of the internet that it takes you to get to that page. Example; If I click on, say, ‘Moscow Times’ my URL might be catalogued by as many as 2-300 servers, each time it goes thru a junction, your URL is catalogued in these new URL directories. This in itself is werthless, except these servers are crawled and allowed to be crawled for this directory by default. Lists of names are then generated, which are found by the search engines en mass. The sooner these engines see your URL all over the net, the better.

** Size; Appearance**
Make sure your page loads quickly, has a pro look, and plenty of material. Now that you have spent all this time to get them to come, what do you have to offer them if they stay?

** Avoid the piss-offs;**
No small hard to read print (a big sin of the flasher community)
Small, undersized buttons (a growing portion of our population id elderly and need big print and big buttons, and also a sin for flashers) Hard on the eyes color schemes, which we all seem to, by nature pick as a first choice. Doh! Light is usually better than dark, a good tip to follow.

** 404’s**
Front page links that don’t work. (Dont put em up if they don’t werk)
The search engines a meta crawlers will also whack you heavy for this indiscretion.
Then the really obvious stuff like no black background with internet green print. No red print. Color schemes must be superior and pleasing, well pleasing. If they don’t like the look they won’t return.

** Contact;**
Make it easy to find. And make sure they can contact you. Most of the time it doesn’t matter if they dont get a return mail, but if they want to write you and cannot it is a turnoff. Also, unless you want to end up having your email box ruined, find the javascript available as open source and hide your mailto:'s, so they cannot be spidered.

** Popups**
Don’t use em. Idiots made those to wreck the intenet experience. Don’t give in to the idiots. Whoever first thought those up should be shot, along and after the person who invented the hold button on the telly. Or at least sacked.
Frames; Try not to confine people to your site within frames; Not a good idea. This is a major pissoff to people. I also refuse to revisit sites that follow the scheme.

** Navigation**
Back button; I am unforgiving on this issue; With me it is a cardinal sin as many might already know; If I am surfing and go to your site and you make my return path void by blanking the back button or any of those other mindless schemes to imprison me in their site, ** I will never, EVER. under any circumstance revisit the site.** No matter how cool, no matter what. That is unforgivable and selfish, it has ruined so many of my searches I would like to personally strangle the mind numbed jerk who invented it. But I digress.

** Word of Mouth**
And word of mouth which is the number one way, after of course having a site that interests them for more than 5 minutes. You better have something they want or else my take on human nature is they are gone and won’t return. Fickle crowd and a big world wide web. Remember that though, they want instant gratification for news, weather, games, whatever. But instant is the codeword. Long load pages are seldom revisited by me.

** Incomplete Pages**
Avoid placing an incomplete page in it’s respective URL for more than 1 week. Trust me, this can kill all the visitors perceptions of your site. The search engines and meta crawlers also will rank punish you with poor relevence until they detect through another crawl, a correction. (And remember, there is a 6-8 week time drag for Crawlers, so don’t make this error, be ready and waiting for them as honored guests) When I see an under construction sign, I am outta there. Just me, but I think many are the same way. Every site is almost always under construction, so lose the signs. They were cute at first, then irritating as people used these to replace content and good intentions. But the under construction signs are a buzz kill.

There a few tips for now-
Hope some of them helped…
Phil Jayhan
:stuck_out_tongue:

To give you an idea how this worked for myself the first week. Here is a healthy list of different nations where I submitted my URL, and were crawled by the same in the first week @ Corpust.com

** Top 21 of 21 Total Countries

Hits Files KBytes Country

1 9839 80.52% 2292 61.56% 24086 47.65% Network
2 1052 8.61% 546 14.67% 10414 20.60% Unresolved/Unknown
3 686 5.61% 599 16.09% 10616 21.00% US Commercial
4 190 1.55% 87 2.34% 1405 2.78% United Kingdom
5 150 1.23% 109 2.93% 1151 2.28% Canada
6 79 0.65% 73 1.96% 742 1.47% Australia
7 44 0.36% 37 0.99% 715 1.41% France
8 28 0.23% 27 0.73% 146 0.29% Turkey
9 24 0.20% 24 0.64% 436 0.86% Netherlands
10 22 0.18% 21 0.56% 80 0.16% Egypt
11 19 0.16% 19 0.51% 21 0.04% Brazil
12 19 0.16% 18 0.48% 18 0.04% Ireland
13 18 0.15% 17 0.46% 17 0.03% Greece
14 17 0.14% 17 0.46% 17 0.03% Spain
15 10 0.08% 10 0.27% 204 0.40% US Educational
16 10 0.08% 9 0.24% 205 0.41% Belgium
17 7 0.06% 7 0.19% 153 0.30% Germany
18 2 0.02% 2 0.05% 44 0.09% Switzerland
19 1 0.01% 1 0.03% 32 0.06% Iceland
20 1 0.01% 1 0.03% 17 0.03% Japan
21 1 0.01% 1 0.03% 32 0.06% Taiwan

Second week;

Hits Files KBytes Country

1 3698 64.95% 948 44.22% 16094 44.44% Network
2 817 14.35% 713 33.26% 10991 30.35% US Commercial
3 621 10.91% 391 18.24% 5246 14.49% Unresolved/Unknown
4 311 5.46% 139 6.48% 1598 4.41% Canada
5 56 0.98% 19 0.89% 332 0.92% United Kingdom
6 38 0.67% 36 1.68% 224 0.62% Denmark
7 35 0.61% 32 1.49% 267 0.74% New Zealand (Aotearoa)
8 34 0.60% 25 1.17% 698 1.93% France
9 14 0.25% 14 0.65% 170 0.47% Brazil
10 12 0.21% 7 0.33% 60 0.17% Netherlands
11 7 0.12% 6 0.28% 48 0.13% US Educational
12 7 0.12% 7 0.33% 152 0.42% Australia
13 5 0.09% 5 0.23% 57 0.16% Austria
14 5 0.09% 4 0.19% 59 0.16% Lithuania
15 4 0.07% 3 0.14% 10 0.03% Belgium
16 4 0.07% 4 0.19% 56 0.16% Hong Kong
17 3 0.05% 3 0.14% 56 0.15% Israel
18 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 6 0.02% Argentina
19 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 6 0.02% Finland
20 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 6 0.02% Hungary
21 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 6 0.02% Indonesia
22 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 35 0.10% Iceland
23 2 0.04% 1 0.05% 3 0.01% Italy
24 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 6 0.02% Sweden
25 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 6 0.02% Singapore
26 2 0.04% 2 0.09% 6 0.02% United States
27 1 0.02% 1 0.05% 3 0.01% Estonia
28 1 0.02% 1 0.05% 3 0.01% Egypt
29 1 0.02% 1 0.05% 3 0.01% Japan
30 1 0.02% 1 0.05% 3 0.01% Romania

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For the most part these are all crawlers (and my own heavy traffic in building) as I only had 346 Unique URL’s log into my site, with 387 pageviews, the second week. But you can see the effect after only one week. And corpust.com will soon be spidered into all these directories, probably within 10-14 days. But 27 different nations on this list; And 17 above with 3-4 of those being new. Thus far around 31 different nations have indexed my site inside of two weeks. Just an FYI & follow up the the post above. Stay tuned; Next I will be werking towards cracking the directories of China, India and Indonesia. 3 closed countries to outside URL’s. It’s hard to get in those nations but not impossible. This takes time and real effort, and patience.

Phil Jayhan
[email protected]