Simple question - how to advertise my site on search engines, google, yahoo etc ?

[gizmondouk]

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Simple Question guys.

How to i advertise my webiste on google, yahoo search engines ?

I have read fourm articles about keywords etc but i really would appreciate an idiots guide from scratch about how to get my site out there on the world wide web ?

[MikeCronnie]

Firstly, as i discovered when adding a new site yesterday, Yahoo search is now part of Bing, so their 2 databases are linked, so you need only apply to bing.

Best thing to do is to use Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools... If you type those searches into your engine, it will find them. Once you're in there, again you will need to verify your site with these tools by adding snippets of code in headers, or other options. Using Webmaster Tools will work best if you link your sitemap to them (you will see where to do this within each of their respective options) I will ensure that the search engine sees all of your site from there and crawls through your pages... It will also check for broken links (links that go to pages that no longer exist). Generally these sitemaps need to be in XML Format. Depending on how you built your site, ie, wordpress, you can get a plugin that will generate a sitemap for you.

These can take a few days to crawl your site so be patient... It may be a good idea to finalise parts of your site before you get this up, as any bad content now may damage your rankings for a little while.

[D4N]

Thanks for that info Mike, that helped me out too