Web Design and Internet Services:
Submitting to Search Engines and Optimizing Pages
and "Pay per Click"

PAY PER CLICK

"Pay per click" listings at major search engines - you pay for the customers who actually visit your site as a result of a listing at a major search engine.

• Overture lists your business in the search results on eight of the top U.S. search properties: MSN, Yahoo!, AltaVista, InfoSpace, AlltheWeb and NetZero
• read about Google | go to Google Adwords
• LookSmart

Visit the above links for information on pricing and what each search engine offers.

Submitting to Search Engines
The major search engines reported by WebSideStory (www.WebSideStory.com), the leader in on-demand Web analytics

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. MSN

represent approximately 86% of the total search engine queries per day. In compiling the data for this report, WebSideStory relied on a sample size of more than 25 million unique browsers tracked by its network on March 23 rd. The Yahoo.com referral percentages do not include referrals from the Overture network recently acquired by Yahoo.
Read the related article: StatMarket

Automated submission to 500 search engines will not bring the results you need. We target the top search engines to generate traffic to your site.

We target these search engines with this process:

• analyse webpages to optimize them
• submit to the top search engines
  (Google, Yahoo, MSN and all the above list)
• track when and which search engines have received submission

Learn more about how we do our
search engine submissions

Paid Submission vs. Spider It may no longer make sense to pay for submission at Yahoo! Their web crawling spider, Slurp, spends all its time finding new content on the web. Read this excellent article about optimizing for Yahoo's Spider Slurp

• Overture (a Yahoo! Company)
• Read an Industry Overview:
  Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting
  By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor SearchEngine Watch, November 23, 2004
  

Pay per Click - How does it work?

What next? Find out who is visiting your website!