What is a Search Engine

What is Search Engine Submission?

This is the act of supplying a URL to a search engine in an attempt to make a search engine aware of a site or page. Submitting sites/pages can be done manually or in an automated manner. Manual submission involves going to each of the "Add URL" pages and filling out the form fields individually. Automatic submission involves filling out information only one time; the necessary information is then used by a software program to submit to many search engines.

SW Graphics & Design™ submits your site once every month for 1yr to over 500,000 sites (search engines and links pages), including Yahoo, Snap/NBCi, HotBot, AOLSearch, DMOZ(Open Directory), and many others.

What is a Search Engine?
A search engine is simply a site that indexes different information by identifying and collecting information on your site, and then they index the information into a searchable database.

How do they work?
All search engines have different rules and methods on how they process both the information you send to them in your submission i.e. keywords, as well as the meta tags in your html. Once your site is submitted, the search engines process all this information themselves, it is out of our hands.

Therefore search engines use key words and meta tags to index your information, they use 'spiders' or web crawlers to gather information from your site for their database.

What are keywords
Keywords are terms that the search engines use to match against users queries. The keywords should be used preferably near the top of your page and relevant to your site.

If we designed your site, SW Graphics has made sure that we chose the best key words for those searching for you online. Our experience and knowledge of the internet over the years has caused us to be very proficient in keyword selection.

Many search engines will rank your site higher if it contains multiple instances of the keyword. Many engines do not accept the same keyword many times, and yours may not be listed, generally, search engines will accept 2-3 repetitions of each keyword. Search engines use spiders to verify the information.

How can I optimise my submission?
Search engines use your keywords, Meta Tags, the page title, the content of the site, and any links, so it is extremely important that your site is regularly maintained and that all links are operational otherwise the search engines may reject your site. Regular submissions give you maximum opportunity to be registered and remain registered with the search engines.

Rarely is a site registered with the major search engines on the first submission, it may take seven or more monthly submissions before your site is registered. Some submissions will be immediate. Regular submissions are the most beneficial. SW Graphics & Design submits your site on a monthly basis for these reasons. If you 'over submit' your site, the search engines will tag you as a Spammer and reject your site.

Why am I receiving SPAM?
The search engines get the email address that we created for you, search@yoursite.com. We cannot control how the e-mail address is used once your site has been submitted. It is likely your e-mail address will be placed on some of the link sites where Spam Spiders can get it and then you will receive Spam. We always set up a separate email address specifically for your search engine submission reports and that will at least confine the Spam to that specific email address.