After building a website the big challenges is letting the search engines know that your site exists. To increase the chances of a site being found, design every page to be indexed by search engines. This means giving each page a unique title, META tags and content.

Search engines like Google or Yahoo! Which send out spider to index each page, the content will influence where the page will appear in the search results. Submit your website name to various search engines.

The process can take several weeks for the search engines to update their records. You need to have a good ranking in one of the main search engines like Google.

Reach a highly targeted audience by listing your site in regional business directories, vertical market directories, trade association sites, online Yellow pages sites, and other smaller directories.

These may not generate the high volumes of traffic that large engines do, but they can be a cost-effective way to hit your target audience.

There are around ten search engines that matter. Their names are household names like Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. You want to be listed with them, because they take 98.5% of the web searches.

Before You Submit

It's hard to know if your underlying HTML code is optimized for search engine robots. At a minimum, each page in your site should include the following:

DMOZ is an open directory; it may take any where from two weeks to months for your site to be listed. DO NOT submit the same URL more than once. If you do, you will be banned for spamming and your site will never be listed. Wait until your site is complete before submitting it.

To submit to DMOZ, select the category that best fits your website. Click on the Add URL button; follow the instructions on the submission form carefully to submit your website.