Promoting Your Site
In order for your Web site to be successful, you need to promote it. After all, what good is your site if nobody ever goes to it? There are many ways to promote your site (banner ads, word-of-mouth, print ads, etc.) but one of the most important is registering your site in the various Internet search engines.
For quickly and thoroughly promoting your site, we recommend !Register-It! from the Web Site Garage. For a small fee, you can register your site with up to 400 search engines, directories and award sites. If you consider how much time you can save by using this service instead of trying to register with each and every site, one at a time, you will see what a great value this is.
Updating Your Web Site's Listing on the Search Engines
You should update your listings in the major search engines and directories (Yahoo, Lycos,
Altavista, HotBot, Excite, etc.) if you have made any significant changes to your web site
such as: changing your domain name, changing file or directory names, moving pages to
different directories, adding or deleting files, or making significant changes to the text
on a page for which you want your listing updated quickly.
- To update your listings with the search engines, you can re-submit the URL of your index page and let their spiders 'crawl' through the rest of your site or you can re-submit the URL of each of the pages that have changed.
- You can delete an old listing for an outdated URL by submitting the URL of the old page once that page has been removed from the web server. When the search engine tries to index the non-existent page, it will get a "File Not Found" error and will delete any entries it has for that URL.
- If you simply move your entire web site (including your domain name) from one web hosting provider to another, you will not need to update your listings with the search engines.
