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Search Engines
 
As with most things in life nothing is free. Search engines are now charging for higher ranking. Some search engines offer a service where you can pay to be a sponsor. For instance when you do a search in Google, you will see wording like "Sponsored Links". These are all people who have paid money to be listed there. Depending on your web site and its content this could be very valuable to you.    


If your potential target search is something very specific to you like say, your companies name, then you stand a decent chance of getting ranked highly, but if you want to be found in a large category like "gifts" you are going to have to think about paying for a decent ranking. If it all sounds a bit complicated and confusing, you are correct. I highly suggest you do some homework and research for yourself, search engine ranking and web promotion. The more knowledge and education you bring to your project the better off you are. For books on the topic go to Amazon.com and type in keywords like "search engine" or "web site promotion". You can also do a lot of research on the internet by typing in the same keywords in the search engines. Ironic twist isn't it? Going to the search engines to search for information about search engines. O'Neal Design will be glad to advise you and help you along. Remember search engines are only a part of promoting your web site. For more tips on promoting your site I have provided another resource to help you out. PROMOTING YOUR SITE!

Links to Search Engines to submit your site.

Some are free, some will charge you. Some allow multiple submits some only allow one submission at a time. This a partial list of the good bad and the "unheard of". There are probably 10 - 15 really important search engines out there. If you haven't heard of it then probably no one else has either. Be a wise consumer when you try to submit your site. If it says "advertisement" above the submit information -they are trying to sell you something and it is not necessarily a legitimate submit.

 
   

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