Step 6 - Promotion (Continued)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Waiting Game - Page 5

Be Patient:

Don't expect visitors to come flocking to your site right after you submit your site to the search engines and directories. Search engines may take two -three weeks to index your site. Directories are reviewed by people they can take much longer, sometimes up to 6 months.

Measure Your Traffic:

Soon after your Web site goes live, you should take the time to set up a method to measure your traffic. Google Analytics is a free, powerful traffic measurement and analysis tool.

Updates:

Search engines revisit sites with new and updated pages more often than they do static sites. Include a What's New page to inform your visitor's what pages have been updated.

Resubmission:

Many search engines will block your site if you attempt to re-register too often. After the initial submission of a Web page, it should only be re-submitted for one of following reasons:

• It's a major page, but never indexed.
• Your page ranking falls dramatically.
• Your page is no longer listed.
• In other words - if it ain't broke don't fix-it!

Monitor Your Progress - SEO Tools

• Link Popularity. Use this link popularity tool to help you find out who is linking to your site. You can also run a benchmarking report to show you quickly where you stand in comparison to competitors.
• Reaction engine. This is an instant, free and no-registration tool to analyse the SEO performance of a URI (URL) for a given keyphrase. Reports include a variety of useful information and structured recommendations to improve overall effectiveness.
• Top Competitor Tool. This tool shows the top domains for a particular keyword in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
• Strongest Subpages Tool. This tool will find 30 of the strongest subpages of the domain entered, and will show how many other sites are linking to those pages.
• Page Strength. Page Strength scores are determined by collecting data from external sources such as Yahoo, Alexa, and Google.

:: End SEO tutorial. Go back to: Promote.

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