There are submission services (and spam email messages) that promise to submit your web site to 50,000 search engines. Some web site promotion tools also claim that they can submit your web site to thousands of search engines.

Thousands of search engines?

There aren’t thousands of search engines on the Internet. Period. The majority of these 50,000 so called “search engines” are free for all (FFA) link pages or special interest web pages.

Submitting your web page to thousands of FFA sites means that you’ll end up with thousands of spam email messages.

In addition, you won’t receive a single visitor when you submit your web site about office equipment to a directory of poets in Poland.

There’s only a handful of search engines that can really bring visitors to your web site. As always, it’s quality that matters, not quantity. For this reason, you should concentrate on the important search engines when you submit your web site to search engines.

Which search engines are important?

Currently, there are only three major players: Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. They are responsible for the bigger part of the search engine traffic you can get because they also power other search engines, for example the search engine on AOL.com displays Google results.

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Even if you have high search engine rankings, people still might not buy from you. The reason for that is that your website might not be trustworthy. Of course, you need a professional web design to create trust.

In addition, there are a few other things that are necessary to convince your website visitors that they should do business with you:

1. Show your visitors who you are

It’s amazing how many Internet businesses don’t list their postal addresses. Do they have something to hide?

If your customers don’t know who you are and where you live they might refrain from doing business with you.

For example, you can find our full contact information here. We link to that page at the bottom of every web page. In addition, our full postal address is listed in the footer of every web page. We do this to make sure that our visitors know who we are.

You should do the same if you’re serious about your business. Show your visitors that you have nothing to hide.

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I was recently perusing results on the leading search engines, I seemed to notice that long URLs weren’t very popular on the first couple pages for several keywords. That intrigued me, so I performed a true statistical analysis to see if my observation was merely a coincidence or a true correlation and affect search engine optimization.

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If you’re selling products and services that are related to a special area, it is crucial that your website gets found by the right people. One of the easiest ways to get found by people that live in your area is to optimize your web page titles.

What is the web page title?

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