SubmitWolf FAQ
|
- What are the
do's and dont's when submitting a site?
- How do I
register SubmitWolf
- How do I
Upgrade SubmitWolf
- How do I
create a submission project
Tips for Successful Site Submission and
Improving your Ranking
Avoid the
following:
Frames
Do not use
frames, a lot of the search engines do not support them and it
restricts your listing potential. If you must, have lead in pages that
you submit that are not in frames so that you are still listed in the
search engines. Make sure that you have a decent amount of words on at
least a few pages on your site, keep them focused on the topic related
to your site.
Text the same colour as the
background.
This was a Trick used to improve a sites
ranking on a search engine, however these days engines are awake to
these tricks and will do your ranking more harm than good.
Repeated keywords.
"Spamming" certain keywords
will also do your you more harm than good, some engines work on a
relevancy percentage i.e. if you have 10 key words, each key word will
be given a %10 relevancy for your site.
Flash.
Though Flash looks great, it does not contain any text or
information about your site, spiders will not only have trouble
indexing pages with flash, they will often not find any information to
index you with, hence affecting your ranking.
Java
script.
The use of Java is fantastic on your web page,
though an excessive use of Java will often hinder a search engine
spider, this in turn will lower your chances of being indexed by the
engines.
Submitting too often.
Some engines have
a NO-SPAM policy, if they receive the same submission often in a short
period of time, they might reject your submission or give you a lower
ranking. We recommend that you do your submissions every 4
weeks.
A URL containing special characters such as: ?, =, %,
&
Often search engines will disregard URL's with the
above characters in them, if possible please avoid the use of these
types of characters.
Pages requiring a cookie will not be
indexed.
How long will it take my page to be added to the
Engine?
The time taken for your site to appear in the
search engines varies greatly. It may be instant, or it may take
several months depending on the engine. The submit pages on most sites
will give you an approximation as to how long it will take for your
site to appear. Submitting your site to an engine does not guarantee
that it will be listed. Some engines review all submissions manually
and the administrators can add or reject your submission at their
discretion without notice. When you resubmit, be sure to be patient
and check that the information has been updated before you submit
again.
The use of META tags is very important
It
is important to ensure that your page has correct META TAGs inserted
into the HTML code for page title, description and keywords. Most
major engines actually "spider" or download your page to get these and
use them for the title and keywords of your page on their sites.
These keywords and META TAGs are used to store and retrieve
your information in the search engines. If you are not showing up in
the first 200 or so entries under your chosen keywords, you may need
to design your page and META TAGs to ensure that users can find you
under the keywords you wish to be found under. It is not always a big
change in your page that result in your position moving up, it can be
subtle changes that have the greatest effect. Don't forget it will
take a few weeks for your page to show up and not to submit too many
times and definitely not more than once in a day.
When you do
search engine ranking, do not just look at your site. Look at all the
sites in the top 10 under the keywords that you want to be found
under. Maybe open a few of the top 5 in a different windows so you can
compare them. Look for where they used the keywords, how often and the
layout of the pages. View->source in your web browser will also
allow you to see what they used in the keywords and description META
TAGs. Look for similarities, in the pages then incorporate these into
your web page.
YAHOO
Yahoo is a large, complex
site that needs your special attention to get a listing. They only
have 750,000 sites. Where as AltaVista and Hotbot etc hold around
110,000,000. It is hard to get a listing and there is nothing that can
effectively map out their category system. The only way is to go there
and explore and submit yourself. We could submit you to a general
category but you probably won't get listed and if you do, you will not
get the traffic you deserve. As a note Yahoo also provide a service
where they charge $200 per submission and they guarantee to review
your site for indexing. This does not however guarantee a
listing.
Reciprocal
Try and find as many sites as
you can that will link to your site, if you manage to get a link from
a site that has high traffic, there is a very good chance that the
traffic from that site will soon move on to your pages, this will be
more relevant when the site that has your link is in some way related
to your site / service.
What are the competition up to
?
Go to a few of the search engines and search for topics
relating directly to your site's topic. See who comes up first, visit
their pages and look for counters and presentation. Choose a handful
of sites that have reasonable traffic (or at least comparable traffic
to yours) and approach them to have reciprocal links. These can
produce a fair amount of traffic, but be careful to look after your
link partners, if you are getting traffic from them and they get
nothing from you, they won't keep your link. Make sure you look after,
especially, the good link partners. Do not hide their banners away in
the corner.
Reaching the top of search engine listings requires
a lot of fine-tuning and effort. There are millions of sites on the
Internet and they are all vying for that top position. Submitting your
site to all the engines is the first step, fine tuning your meta tags
and site content is the important second step.
How To Register SubmitWolf.
To register submit wolf from a evaluation version, start up the program and then go to the "help" menu and select register.
Once the "Submit Wolf Registration" window has popped up click on the register button, which will take you to an online web page where you may place an order via credit card. There are alternate purchasing methods available. There are different types of SubmitWolf available for purchase.
There is the electronic download version where you will receive a Serial Number which you use to upgrade the downloaded version or there is the boxed package, you receive a CD containing SubmitWolf and you also a Serial Number which is found with in the CD cover. If you have lost your registration details, please click on the "LOST" button, this will send you to the lost registration form.
To register your copy of SubmitWolf enter your Registration Name which is in the form of an e-mail address, and also enter the Serial Number this is used when you get the registration details from Trellian, then click on the "OK" button. Type your registration details exactly as they appear in this e-mail, *this includes upper and lower case letters*. Also make sure that you do not have any spaces behind the registration name or serial number as this will cause authorisation failure. If you are having trouble try to cut and paste the details into their correct fields and also make sure that you have downloaded the correct program and the latest version.
How To Upgrade SubmitWolf
To upgrade SubmitWolf make sure you are connected to the Internet. If you are connected to the Internet through a proxy server enter the proxy details in the options/preferences/proxy server menu. If you are connected to the internet through a proxy server you have to put it in here otherwise the upgrade wont work.
Once you have entered in your details click on the OK button so as to save your details.
Then click on FILE - UPGRADE from within SubmitWolf and then select Next and the program will check for updates, after it has got the information you must select the items you wish to upgrade to.
After it has downloaded the correct versions allow it to install. This should have completed the updating of SubmitWolf. Please be sure that you follow the install instructions, failing this your upgrade may not work successfully.
How do I create a submission project
After you have installed Submit Wolf and run it, the license agreement will pop up. To continue using Submit Wolf you must click on the accept button.
After "Accept" has been selected the "New Project" window will appear.
Type in an appropriate name for your project here.
NOTE: Do not use , . / \ : ? ( ) - = or spaces in your project name, names like: "http://myprojecturl.com" or "my project" will cause the W102 error because they contain other characters and spaces.
After you have entered a name for your project, you are taken to the main screen. At this point it is imperative you make sure you are connected to the internet.
Now that you are in the main screen of Submit Wolf, click on the Project Tab.
After you have clicked on the Project Tab the "Details" screen will appear. This is where the main details of your site are entered. The "Username" & "Password" field are used because sometimes the search engine requires an account to be created for editing and deleting purposes.
Fill in all the appropriate information here now. After the Information has been entered select the "Category" Tab.
The "Category" window is used to select the type of category your product falls into. To select a category for your product you must move your cursor to the categories to the left of the "Category" window. Then a list of subcategories will appear, select the appropriate category and click on the add arrow ->, if you make a mistake and accidentally add a unappropriate category you can remove it by selecting it and then clicking the remove arrow <-.
After the category has been selected, click on the "Contact Details" tab.
The "Contact" area is where you enter in your contact details. In most search engines most of these are kept confidential.
The "Ranking" tab is not used in the construction of a project it is used to mainly keep track of what your site is ranked in that search engine.
After all the relevant details have been entered in to the DETAIL's, CATEGORY and CONTACT you will then need to select the engines and link lists, simply click on the ENGINES tab, click the SELECT ALL button, then click the LINK LISTS tab and repeat the process (This will select all submitable engines).
After you have selected the Engines and link lists you wish to submit to, click on the "SUBMIT" button.
After you have clicked the "Submit" button a window will pop up that contains all the relevant information on your site, other wise known as the CONFIRMATION window. This is where you may alter or fix any mistakes you have made.
After you are certain about the information you entered, click "Submit", a Warning window will appear please take heed of the information there. Please click OK to proceed. Now Submit Wolf will contact the selected Search Engines and submit your site. It will bring up a status window and you can watch what Submit Wolf is doing at that time.
After Submit Wolf has gone through and submitted all the sites you may have a look and see which sites it couldn't submit to. These are usually due to incorrect information entered or a problem with the server. To see which sites it couldn't submit to simply open the Engines list and you will see in the place of the Blue diamonds there is normally a green or red tick, the green ticks signify a successfully completed submission and the red ticks indicate a unsuccessful submission for whatever reason.
|
