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In order to have your website been noticed at all by any search engine, you will need incoming links (so called Backlinks), i.e. various other websites will have to refer to your website - the more incoming links (Link Popularity) the merrier. One possibility is to register your website to a web directory - such as websites-index.com.

What exactly is a web directory?

Well, a web directory provides the user with a collection of adresses, that are arranged by specific topics. Web directory help to find information about a particular topic. Most web directories are administered manually, i.e.: All entries are assorted, checked and cataloged by humans. By this means a quality of the collected information is assured that couldnt be achieved by an automatic procedure. Unfortunately more and more web directories can be found lately which activate the registered websites without a former checking. Furthermore it is possible to differentiate between commercial and non-commercial web directories - e.g., www.websites.com is a non-commercial web directory, free and without a backlink duty. An entry in a web directory means free advertisement as well as more visitors for the registered website. The inclusion in a web directory depends only on the will of the operator - the applicant has no right to insist on accepting his website. 

What is a Backlink - and why? 

A Backlink is a reference (link) from one website to another. The more backlinks (incoming links) a website has the higher the chance to find, evaluate and rank it.. Under certain circumstances both websites may benefit from it - the web directory (which is a website too) and the registered website itself, if it implemented a link to the webcatalogue. Mentioning "certain circumstances" means: Wrongly placed Backlinks will only cause damage! When a websites mainly consists of links that in return refer to the website itself, the nowadays search engines seem to interprete this as spam. 

More about web directories, webcatalogues 

Please visit the up-to-date list of webcatalogues at Google. The lists are being updated constantly and may help you to decide whether you want to register in a webcatalogue or not, or give you an overview of the webcatalogues. 

What is Pagerank? 

The pagerank-algorithm was invented by the founders of the Google Inc. Corporation. By this complex calculation the google search engine awards to every website that has subscribed a ranking value between -1 and 10, which determines the ranking placement of this website. By technical means, the calculations examine all to the analysed website referring websites (backlinks): The amount and significance of the referring websites. In other words, if referred to website A (e.g. with pagerank 5) with a backling by the website B, which has a high own pagerank, the significance of website A would be higher than in the case of being referred to by a low pagerank website B. Pagerank determines the search engine`s result output order.

What is SEO - Search engine optimisation?

Search engine optimisation is currently the most effective way of website promotion. Web users usually look for information by entering keywords in search engines (e.g. Google) Page results are not random. Special techniques collectively called "positioning" are transparent for users and allow for addresses related to searched information to appear on the first results page. Web positioning concerns different activities that result in positioning a website as high as possible in search engine results. Web positioning is a very effective way of advertising on the net. Finding yourself in the top results is the most profitable way of promoting your products in the net. Over 75% of net surfers use search engines while seeking products. They think that search engines are independent. It is very important as noone likes ads. Why is it efficient to invest in webpositioning? * it is a matter of one click whether current and future Clients enter your or your competitor's website, * it is a perfect method of attracting new users, * it definitely decreases the cost of gaining new Clients, * many people start seeking info in the Net and the search engines, * rising the traffic on your website, * increase in phone calls, * increase of logged users, * building/strenghening the internet image of the company, * directing adds to specific branches, countries, regions, languages.

SEO Basics

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

Keyword and Domain Name 

Your first option is using a domain you own but have never used. If your domain is abc.com, and you need to target "Web design", then make sure to place the keywords in the URL. The website URL should appear as abc.com/web-design not abc.com/xxx.html. 

Content 

Amount - Blogging helps you maximize in creating multiple pages on your website. Forums are another great way, but a little bit trickier than blogs. Making sure you have quality content will help more pages get indexed by the way of natural inbound links. Size - Too many words or too little words in a page can be bad. I believe that Google looks at how many words an article contains. Most article directories require at least 350 words to approve your article. You can easily determine if the page is spam if the article is less than a couple of paragraphs. Also, if you're planning to write over 500 words then you're probably writing about too many broad topics on the same page. It would be better to have 2 articles indexed than having 1 long article.

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