I have a web site for my business. I have a friend who is doing the site for me . I want to get traffic to it at no cost. How do I go about getting it listed with search engines for free?
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I have a web site for my business. I have a friend who is doing the site for me . I want to get traffic to it at no cost. How do I go about getting it listed with search engines for free?
I recommend not wasting your time submitting to various search engines. They will find your site whether you submit to them or not, so you can better spend your time building links. What I mean is writing articles, participating in forums, reciprocal linking, link baiting and a few other techniques. The number and quality (what site the link comes from) of links is one of the most important factors when search engines rank web pages, so it is vital to have a good number of links. I wrote up a page specifically on building links:
http://freeseoquiz.com/archives/seo-tip-5-improve-your-link-popularity
All the search engines have a free submission link like this one for google:
http://www.google.com/addurl/
There are also several multi submit sites that handle all the major search engines, like this one:
http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html
Search engines like google have a page ranking system which basically places your site higher in ranking based on how many people link to you. It’s more complicated than that but that is one main factor of their ranking method. http://www.google.com/technology/
As just submitting to the search engines does not necessarily get traffic to your site unless someone is searching for terms that reveal your site, you may also want to read tips at some sites from this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=+getting+web+site+traffic&btnG=Search