Drive Organic Traffic to Your Site
In order for your site to show up in the results of search engines, the search engines need to know about it. One way to make this happen is to submit your site directly to the search engines. Another way is to submit your site to the many directories of sites that exist on the Web. Submitting to search engines and directories helps in two ways:
* The search engines may index your site as a result of the direct submission.
* The search engines may index your site after following links from directories to your site.
The more links to your site, the easier it is to find. This is particularly effective for sites that charge for direct submissions. Why pay Yahoo for inclusion when they are likely to include you anyway after following links to your site?
Even better, the number of links to your site partly determines where among the results it is listed when someone does a search. The more links to your site, the higher it will be in the search results. This is the fastest way to improve your site’s “Page Rank” and drive tremendous amounts of traffic without spending money on marketing.
Of course, what works for the search engines works for people too. Submitting to directories results in inbound links that people will come across and follow to your site. As a result you should see more traffic from referring sites as well as from search engines.
Submitting to search engines and directories manually can be a very time consuming chore. Fortunately, there are services that will do the job for you at a reasonable cost.
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