Get Your Site Indexed

1. IE Sucks. In fact its worse than that. A new post appeared on webdesignerwall.com that was very intriguing. It says to trash all IE Hacks and force Microsoft to improve its browser’s page rendering. Read more here…

2. Keep your site Clean. Don’t make it all singing all
dancing. Clean designs are best. Take mine for example. The background
is nice and dull. But the green middle and white text make up for it.
The navigation is simple and so is the logo. But take this website: http://mito.cool.ne.jp/chinari21/2-16.html its got a bad background no main content moving gifs, scrolling text and much more I cant bear it.

3. Keep it to 5 colours at the most. Most people don’t want to
see a site with millions of colours so it looks like the rainbow. So
keep it at 5 colours!

4. Have a contact page that works. The worst thing to do is not have
a way of contacting the webmaster, even if the contact page just
displays an email, its better than nothing.

5. Lorum Ipsum. This is one of the best dummy text generators
around. It displays latin text to put in templates rather than adding
your own. It is a long established fact that a reader will be
distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its
layout, this therefore means if you make a template they wont focus on
the design. Get it from here

6. Don’t use a free host. (unless you have to) Free hosts
often give you adverts, slow loading times, too much of a community
(unless you like that stuff) and addon’s you don’t need. To
be professional, you need a payed one. I recommend neoboffinhosting.
They are very good and they host my site. Remember to put psycho3000 in
the referral box to get yourself 50% more bandwidth for free.

7. Take time on designing your site. Most people wont like it if its
rushed. Make sure you post it on forums and around at home to see if
everyone likes it. Then offer a beta stage of the site with a password
protected directory where people can login and look at the design
before anyone else. This also means you can test it for compatibly with
different screen sizes if yours is to small and different browsers if
you don’t have a certain one.

8. Test, Test Test. Run your site through many tests. Check for
broken links, broken images valid coding (XHTML and CSS) check for any
error pages ect. Also run it though browsershots. This tests for many different things that may be wrong with your site.

9. Update often. Most people don’t want to see a site that
hasent been updated in a month, year ect. Keep it updated with bug
fixes, content updates, small design changes ect. Don’t think
once the site is up, you can leave it and get hits automaticly. Offer
somthing to keep the visitor on your site. (templates, codes) and make
sure to keep offering it.

10.Meta tags and SEO. Make sure you have meta tags in your site.
This picks your site up for many different things and gets it on search
engines. Use a meta tag generator for simpler implantation of the code. SEO is short for “Search Engine Optimism” Use this website to learn everything you know about SEO and more.
10 Things every website designer should know.
Written by Lewis King of psycho3000 designs

Here is a list of my favorite Google advanced search operators, operator combinations, and related uses:

• link:URL = lists other pages that link to the URL.
• related:URL = lists other pages that are related to the URL.
• site:domain.com “search term = restricts search results to the given domain.
• allinurl:WORDS = shows only pages with all search terms in the url.
• inurl:WORD = like allinurl: but filters the URL based on the first term only.
• allintitle:WORD = shows only results with terms in title.
• intitle:WORD = similar to allintitle, but only for the next word.
• cache:URL = will show the Google cached version of the URL.
• info:URL = will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.
• filetype:SOMEFILETYPE = will restrict searches to that filetype
• -filetype:SOMEFILETYPE = will remove that file type from the search.
• site:www.example.com “+www.example.net” = shows you how many pages of your site are indexed by google
• allintext: = searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
• allinlinks: = searches only within links, not text or title
• WordA OR WordB = search for either the word A or B
• “Word” OR “Phrase” = search exact word or phrase
• WordA -WordB = find word A but filter results that include word B
• WordA +WordB = results much contain both Word A and Word B
• ~WORD = looks up the word and its synonyms
• ~WORD -WORD = looks up only the synonyms to the word

There you go - now go find what YOU really want

This Article was written by Steve Dorrington (AKA CarpetDog). Steve regularly contributes to the Get Your Site Indexed blog. He’s also written an ebook called The 48 Hour Plan – How to get your website indexed in 48 hours or less.

Here is a list of free directories where you can submit your website to, all of the directories should be search engine friendly meaning that the directories will be spidered by google and other search engines. None of these directories require a link back, and that means its totally free. Read the rest of this entry »