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You should be getting your Dubai based web page indexed before you can even consider getting
high rankings in Google, Yahoo and MSN, you have to get indexed by the search
engines. Here's how you start on getting your Dubai web page indexed on search engines.
Submitting your Dubai web page?
Getting your Dubai based web page
indexed on a search engine is relatively easy, far more so than it used to be
in the past. It is so easy that you will be surprised when you get spam with
submission offers.
The big three search engines has a
page where you can submit your site. The only one worth using is on MSN. Google
and Yahoo take for every to get around to manual submissions, and there are far
easier ways of getting into them. To find the MSN submission page, just search
for "submit MSN."
Submit your website to Google
Google has really gone to great
lengths to help your Dubai based web page get indexed. If you are updating your
site frequently, you should use the Google Sitemaps tool. The tool is free and
gives Google a direct path for visiting your site on a regular basis. If you
don't update that frequently, there is an easier method for getting indexed.
To get your website indexed by Google,
the simplest method is to go to www.blogger.com and start a blog for your site.
This blog platform is free. Just start writing about anything you wish. Anything
that is relevant to your website and create links to pages on your sites that
have more information about what you are blogging about. Since Google owns www.blogger.com,
it will check the site every few days and follow the links to your site. Once
on your site, Google is pretty good about indexing as many pages as possible.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a bit trickier as the
company tries to make money by charging you to be listed in the Yahoo
directory, a companion section to its search engine. Depending on the type of
site, this can run a couple hundred dollars a year with no guarantee of even
being ranked!
Best thing to do is trade links with
a website that is already in the Yahoo Directory. Yahoo then follows said links
to your site and indexes it. The beauty of this approach, of course, is no money
comes out of your pocket.
Yahoo has recently moved to turn its
search engine into one giant pay-per-click engine. This new program is called
"SiteMatch" and has met with a lot of controversy. You pay Yahoo to submit each
url of your site, with prices ranging from $49 for the first one to $29 and $15
for subsequent sub-domains depending on the number of listings. You also pay for
each hit these pages get from organic listings! The cost per click is either 30
or 15 cents depending on the type of site.
There is an alternative way to get
listed in Yahoo this is to turn your blog into a news feed. You'll need a free
email account with Yahoo. Take the blog you created for Google and go to a free
feed converter site like Feed Burner. Convert your blog into a news feed using
the free service. However complex this may sound it is exceptionally simple
once you are on the site.
When the website kicks out your feed
domain, add it to the My Yahoo page associated with your free Yahoo email
account. Just go to the My Yahoo page and click the "add content" button in the
top left. Enter your feed domain where indicated on the page that appears.
Now you will need to go to a site
like PingOMatic and ping the various blog listing sites out there. My Yahoo is
one such site. Eventually, Yahoo will read the My Yahoo listings and follow the
links in the blog to your site. This doesn't work as well as it used to, but it
beats paying the SiteMatch fees.
MSN
On the other hand MSN is very good
about hunting down sites. If it hasn't found yours, just go to the submit site
page mentioned in the "Submitting?" paragraph at the beginning of this article.
Enter a url and MSN will crawl it within a week or two.
Follow these easy steps and getting your Dubai
based web page indexed on search engines like Google and MSN will be fairly
easy.
OnLime ME has partnered with H2O New Media . H2O New Media is a web development
consultation and online marketing agency in Dubai that creates cost effective
and SEO friendly websites for its clients.
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