My web site is up and running. Now what?

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Now all you need are visitors.
One of the best ways to get visitors to your site is to submit your site to search engines. There are other ways, but over 80% of web surfers find the sites they want via search engines. This also makes it the most cost-effective method of getting visitors to your site. There are two ways to get your site listed at search engines:-

Optimise and Submit Yourself
Use a professional search engine optimisation ans submission specialist. (SEO)

Which you choose depends on many factors. Obviously if yours is a low budget site, such as a personal home page, you will probably be happy to learn all about search engines, find them all, and submit your site, and possibly its individual pages, to the search engines you find.

If yours is a very small business, and you enjoy surfing the net, then you may also want to carry out your own search engine submissions.

If either of the above apply, then we hope you will find the hints and tips listed on our site useful.

If you are busy running a successful and expanding business, it makes sense to pay a professional to carry out specialised tasks such as getting your web site, and its individual pages, submitted to search engines.

Perhaps even more importantly, you need to ensure that your site and its pages are optimised for submission, indexing and retrieval by search engines.

If your site is not optimised, there is a good chance that it will not obtain the best listings it should, and your customers may find your competitors before they find you, that's if they ever get as far as finding you!