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November 12, 2004
Search engines and promotion
A beta release of the new MSN search engine is available on the web. My understanding is that it hopes to rival Google. You don't need to submit your sites to it. It has obviously borrowed its listings from other sources even though they claim it has built from the ground up on Microsoft technology.
If you URL is missing though, you can use this form to submit it.
Which brings me to today's topic about getting indexed.
I had some initial trouble getting my www.carsite-marketing.com website listed. Of course these days, getting listed is sometimes just a matter of getting other sites linking to you. The fastest way I found to do this was to write a couple of articles and submit them to some article directories.
Here is a list of directories I submitted articles to:
http://www.cashflowseller.com/ArticleSubmit.html
http://article-emporium.com/submit-article.cfm
http://www.allfreelancework.com/submitarticles.php
http://articlefinders.com/submit.html
http://www.articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml
http://www.articlewarehouse.com/SubmitArticle.aspx
http://www.awomaninbusiness.com/writers.html
http://www.boconline.com/sub-art.shtml
http://www.business-opportunity.biz/addarticle.php
http://www.businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.family-content.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.howtoadvice.com/Submit/
http://www.certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml
http://www.netterweb.com/articles/
http://ebusinesshelpsite.com/Articles/submit-article.htm
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/termsofuse/articlesubmission.htm
http://www.selfgrowth.com/artman/exec/admin.cgi
http://www.businessknowhow.com/newsletter/articleguidelines.htm
http://www.uniterra.com/submit-article.htm
http://www.vectorcentral.com/articles-form.html
http://www.webmasterslibrary.com/submit.shtml
http://www.web-source.net/article_submissions.htm
http://www.webpronews.com/submit.html
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://www.readycontent.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.advertisingknowhow.com
http://www.marketing-seek.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php
http://www.1st-in-articles.com
http://www.ezinetrendz.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com
http://www.thephantomwriters.com
http://www.articletrades.com
http://www.articlehub.com
http://www.holisticjunction.com
http://www.kickstartyourlife.com/ezinesresources/articles.htm
http://prweb.com (must be press releases)
Nothing is so discouraging as typing your domain name into Google and having exactly zero results returned to you. This is what was happening to me. Now things are different. While it may not be a great listing yet... at least it is there.
I hope this list will help you with your promotions.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at November 12, 2004 07:35 AM
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