It is essential that you promote your completed web site on the search engines.

If you submit your site for free (click for free URL submission sites) it takes 2-6 months and sometimes more before your URL appears in the major search engines, and there is no guarantee of inclusion. From our experience, the best service is Priority Submit, where you receive GUARANTEED fast inclusion to AltaVista, AllTheWeb, Overture Site Match, Slider, whatUseek, Yahoo!, and many other search engines. If nothing else, sign up for the Yahoo Search Submit Express (formally Overture Site Match) program. You pay for inclusion, but can control how much you pay per month. If you run out of funds, simply add more (there is no required amount to pay) -- or wait until you have extra cash. With site match, you can see the key words that drive traffic from the search engines to your site. The pay-for-inclusion option ranks your pages higher than other pages on the net. Register free and check out the various services. If your budget is tight, go for the Yahoo Search Submit Express (Overture Site Match) service instead of signing up for all express submit packages.

Another pay-per-click resource in which you control the monthly expenditure is Google's AdWords program. This program has worked extremely well for us. Get more details here...

An automated submission software package that submits to 3000 plus URLs (updated daily) is Submit Wolf, which integrates with Priority Submit. You can register your pages with hundreds search engines and directories in minutes, and post your URL to over 500,000 link pages. The SubmitWolf software allows you to promote as many web sites as you want, and it includes a submission guard that prevents websites from being banned due to repeated submissions (spamming) to search engines.

Don't limit yourself to submissions to the search engines. Web Site Promotion Secrets Revealed! teaches you the proven methods for top search engine rankings. Whether you choose to pay for inclusion or not, this is a must read if you want to succeed in getting high rankings in the search engines. If your page appears on the 4th page or later in the search results, chances are that people will not visit your site. The web site promotion secrets will show you how to get in the top ten positions without spamming the search engines or violating the rules.

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