Thu 6 Sep 2007
Get Site Into Google, Yahoo, MSN FREE! > Small Businesses
Posted by Shaun AndersonOnly a short post this time, but perhaps one of the most valuable on this website. Fact - You don’t need to pay to get into search engines.
We get an awful lot of enquiries from small businesses trying desperately to get into free listings at Google, Yahoo and MSN and frankly too many unethical seo companies will charge you an arm and a leg for unnecessary seo consultation or unnecessary edits to a site. Rather than charge small businesses and sme a fortune for two minutes work (we were a start-up at one time, too, you know), we help many small businesses with free advice to get their site into the major search engines, again for free.
Why? In our opinion too many seo agencies and firms take the small business for a complete ride when it comes to search engine optimisation. We want you to hire us on the basis of our experience, not on your ignorance of online marketing. Our seo doesn’t just get you into the search engines, it makes you rank high for competitive keyword phrases that will generate leads and sales. This is what we want you to employ us for.
So, if you are a small business or sme with a new website and you want to get into Google, just leave a nice message below and ….um….that’s it.
You see Google, MSN and Yahoo! likes this site, and a link from this site will probably be all that’s needed to get your site at least into the big 3 search engines.
BUT - If you really want to give your site a chance to rank well:
- Make sure all your title tags are unique (@ max 12 words)
- Make sure your meta-descriptions are unique (max 24 words)
- Make sure all your pages link to each other
- Read Google Webmaster Guidelines and make sure you comply but do not use “Google Submit Your Site” to submit your site. Google prefers to find a link to your site on a site it already knows. You should also have a look at Google SEO Guidelines.
- If you are totally lost, contact us.
I’ll add more to this list later, but that will be a good start for you. NOTE: This is open only to website owners who are not in Google, and have not been banned by Google!
All going well in a couple of weeks your website will probably be visible and ranking somewhere in all the search engines, then you can contact us to help you conquer the search engines in your sector. Happy Google-ing!
PS - It can take hours, days or weeks to get into the search engines. To find out if your site is in the search engines just use the site command but replace it with your web address eg: site:www.hobo-web.co.uk
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Can you teach me how to submit to more search engines? As the same in your post, most of the companies out there charges a fee for submitting. I mean, is that legal or what?
Comment by Blogger Map — September 10, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
It’s not a question about legality. Google doesn’t mean, or make, the law. The point of this post is that there is no need to submit your site to search engines.
Google, Yahoo and MSN will find your site if you have a link to your website on another site. It really is that simple.
This is what some other search engine optimisation firms just won’t tell you. The fact is, is that they charge you for submitting your site to search engines, simply relying on your ignorance of seo.
Getting into the search engines in my opinion, is not SEO. SEO is about better performance once you are in search engines.
Comment by Shaun Anderson — September 16, 2007 @ 12:23 am
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Good Day Shaun, Very interresting information about ranking, I didn’t even know that we don’t need to send our website link to search engines… Right there you got my attention buddy… It’s simply funny to believe that it is that simple… lol
My only question would be, how to you get link to other website… I mean do we just ask them???
Oh and, before I forgot… Merry Christmas and Happy New year…
Thank you in advance…
Lambert
Comment by Lambert — December 28, 2007 @ 12:53 am
Thanks very much for the advice… i’ll try it
Comment by Henry — February 11, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
Hi Shaun,
I’m really amazed by your advice and very happy too. I really didn’t want to get into link exchanges with some of the ‘nasty’ sites out there in my line of business. I’m trying hard to build reputable friendly site with no ‘unsuitable’ content. So you have made my day.
Thanks,
Yasmin x
Comment by Yasmin — February 12, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Very helpful advice. I’m a beginner at this and am very grateful for any free advice.
Comment by Andrew Horsfield — February 21, 2008 @ 2:11 am
Thank you for the advice. i am just learning how to market my business better and this was very helpful.
Comment by Michele Pettibone — February 27, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
I’m so new to all this it’s kind of mind boggling. I never realised I could get a listing without paying for it.
now i just have to work out how to add tags and meta-descriptions
Thanks for the information
Maria
Comment by Maria — March 5, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
Hi Shaun,
Thanks for this really useful free advice. I am new to all this and it is mind boggling, less boggeld now!
My question is the same as Lambert’s posted on 28th Dec 07, which is ‘ how do i get a link from another search engine popular, high ranked site so the spiders can follow it and find me?
I have a Typepad blog offering counselling services that no one can find. Am working on keyword research and tags and have good ideas from your site so will keep trying.
Many thanks
Robyn
Comment by Robyn — March 7, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Hi Robyn - Basically you need to add good content to your site that compels other sites in your niche to link to you. This is called link-bait. And you can do it for any industry. Add articles to your blog, link out to others in your niche - by doing so, you actually tell them about your site.
Do a bit of research on blogs (dofollow blogs at first) in your niche that pass Google juice. Find directories in your niche also and submit your site. Consider a link in the Yahoo directory. Basically, get links!
Google knows about your site but you don’t have many links to it - it’s a site about Counselling, isnt it
- there you go, I had a brief look at your site and you’re not doing anything fishy, so have an editorially approved link.
on me. This will tell Google about your site, but ideally, get links from your niche where possible.
Comment by Shaun Anderson — March 7, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Actually Robyn I think you need to look at your site structure and potential duplicate content issues too.
Comment by Shaun Anderson — March 7, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Please help me! Google doesn’t recognize my site with the “site:” command. my site is http://www.discoverytoyslink.com/esuite/home/play_time
Could you help me to get it out there?
thanks!
Patricia
Comment by Patricia Netherton — March 8, 2008 @ 8:48 pm
Please help me get noticed in search engines - my target group is people in the North Yorkshire area but I am unsure of the best way to get noticed. I am new to using the internet for my business and I am worried I may have gone about it all the wrong way!!! I’ve added a few links into my website but i have used an instant site to build my website could I have followed an easier - cheaper route? Thanks for your help.
Debbie
Comment by Debbie Jukes — March 19, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
I found this website very informative. I have been submitting to Google but I am now going to use links as well.
Thanks
Comment by Ian Bostock — March 25, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
Hey Ian a bit of free advice. Check out your titles first - your page titles on every page need optimising, especially on your home page as I take it your not trying to rank for “home page”
- housekeeping first before you go get those links.
Comment by Shaun Anderson — March 25, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
I have recently set up an Essex-based bookkeeping company and would like advice as to how to get my website to appear on the left-hand, unsponsored side of the major search engines.
Many thanks for any help you can offer.
Bookkeepingfirst.com
Comment by Bookkeepingfirst.com — March 28, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
How do i get my business to show up on google, managed to get it on yahoo
Thanks
Michelle
Comment by Michelle — April 22, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Just get other sites to link to it
- That’s a good start!
Comment by Shaun — April 22, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Thanks for the help!
I’m a new author and want exposure via search engines. I was not aware that getting indexed could be such a challenge.
Your tips were simple and helpful.
Thanks again.
Lorne
Comment by lorne rothman — April 28, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Hi
Thanks for your really helpful information.
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Comment by Anton — May 2, 2008 @ 8:44 am
its nice to how a system that actually wants to help out new small businesses
Comment by Erica S. — May 13, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
Thanks for the info and the add.
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Comment by Chris Walsh pp. Andy Skelly — May 14, 2008 @ 10:58 pm