EASY WAYS TO HELP YOUR WEBSITE RANK WELL IN GOOGLE AND BING

Just because you have posted your website online, doesn’t mean that people will automatically be drawn to it. You will receive very few visits unless you make an effort to tell the world who you are, what you do, and where they can find your site.

Add your website URL…

Add Website URL to Bing
Add Website URL to Google
Add Website URL to Yahoo
Add Website URL to The Open Directory Project

If you have a local business…

Google Places
Bing Local
Yahoo Local Listings
Yellow Pages
DexOnline
SuperPages
Yelp
City Search
MapQuest
Thumbtack
Local.com

If you have a blog…

Google Feedburner
Technorati
153 Other Places
Ping several websites alerting them that you have just created a new blog post. This will tell them to crawl you site for the new information.

Every website sitemap should be submitted here…

Google Webmaster Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools
Alexa

Everything else

You may have a specific trade. Search google for “your trade directory/listing”. For example, a restaraunt owner would want to submit thier site to
Urban Spoon
Trip Advisor

Quality Back Links

Now that you are prepared with some of the information to help your site gain exposure, you should know, that where ever you decide to submit your site, what’s most important is that websites page rank. Your websites search engine rank is determined by the quality and popularity of the website containing links back to your site. You can check the page rank of a site by using the tool below. The higher the page rank of that site, the higher the quality of the link back to yours. Quality back links are one of the essential factors determined in your websites search engine rank. Learn more about page rank and how to avoid linking mistakes.

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