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Q. For others to find your site on the net they must get your site address - how do you do this. Whilst you might advertise the address on leaflets, letters or other documents, or pass the address on to friends and colleagues by some other means....It is impossible to send everyone your address... so how can everyone and anyone get hold of it otherwise. |
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A. By the use of SEARCH ENGINES |
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A search engine will register your site for others to find. The biggest search engine is YAHOO (http://www.yahoo.co.uk), with INFOSEEK (www.infoseek.co.uk), HOTBOT(www.hotbot.com) and others following on in order of size. Placing information about your site with these search engines will hopefully match with search criteria used by those people using searches for your type of goods, services..etc........so how do you register and what info do you give. |
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Registering your site: When using YAHOO, INFOSEEK or other engines, look for ADD URL (Add your site address to the engine's listing/database). There are companies who will register your site for FREE with as many as16 engines. |
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IMPORTANT NOTES BEFORE REGISTERING |
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Search engines investigate
your site whilst registering them and take information from the site which
they use when subsequently listing your site in search results. If there are NO meta tags
before your home page title (many free websites have your home page named as
'index'), then the heading of your site in search results will be 'Index' or
some other obscure title that you did not intend for them to use. I made this mistake with my
first registration with YAHOO and the heading still remains as Index What's a meta tag, what do you
put in it and where do you place it. Here's an example of my now
revised index page: <HTML> <HEAD> <META
NAME="description" CONTENT="Hardware and Software services FOR
EVERYONE"> <META
NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Custom-built PCs YOU CAN AFFORD,also
Small Business Specialists, complete servive, hardware-software,help
lines...more, visit http:\\pc-relief.home.ml.org"> <TITLE>PC Relief - index</TITLE> |
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Notice that the meta tag or meta name entries occur BEFORE the page title. The syntax is: <META NAME="description" or "keywords" CONTENTS ="a compklete sentence if description or keywords seperated by commas"> Thus: <META NAME="description" CONTENT="put a description of your site here"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="put two to four lines of keywords here separated by commas, these keywords will be found if people searching use them"> |
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DOMAIN HOST NAMES |
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If you
have a free site with an ISP, then the ISP name will appear before your
name/company name in the website address:
http://website.lineone.net/~mycompany or
http://www.btinternet.com/~mycompany. A Domain site has the site or company name
first: www.microsoft.com www.btinernet.com You can have your name appear first without
going to the expense of your own Domain. This is done by companies who give
you a host name which appears like a domain name, and when it is accessed it
routes through to your normal website. For example: http:\\mycompany.home.ml.org re-routes to: http://website.lineone.net/mycompany/index.html There are many companies who offer this, some
even free of charge. Use a search engine and look for: free AND web AND
hosting Eg: In HOTBOT.COM: free AND web AND hosting In Infoseek.com: free +web +hosting |
