Happy Monday to everyone! We’re you plugging away all weekend on your article and meta tags? Ya sure you were, it was Super Bowl weekend! But it’s ok, life is all about fun so let’s just get back on track today and make this blog work for us.

Today I’m going to be submitting my own website to the major search engines. There are several ways of getting your website submitted to search engines including using a 3rd party piece of software or manually submitting your URL to the search engines directly.  As for me, I don’t have a ton of time in my busy days so I am going to choose the first method and grab my search engine submission software TrafficSeeker to get my submissions done for me in just a couple of clicks. You don’t have to use TrafficSeeker, any software will work, but I’ve used TrafficSeeker for a number of years and I’m comfortable in how to use it so there ya go.

The first thing we do is start up the software and create a new project. You can call yours whatever you want, I usually just stick to the domain names for my project names. Once you’re in the software, the first thing you want to do is enter your full URL in the “site url” box. Once that is done click the “extract settings” button and the software will automatically fill in all the other stuff for you based on your website meta tags. You are also going to need to enter in your “email” and “junk email” values as well. I have 2 emails setup for each of these. The regular email is one I check to click on links for confirmations and other important things. The junk email is an account I made up that just sucks in all the junk email that these submissions can generate. I highly recommend not using an email account you use often in the junk email field.

There are lots of things you can go in this software including some really fantastic page ranking reports, link popularity and other information you might find useful, but for now just select “features” at the top of the software and click on “submit” in the list. You can then select the “Wizard” button and just follow the prompts to get your website submitted. The first time around, I would select to submit to everything in the list, if for no other reason that to build some backlinks. Once you are finished and click the “Finish” button just sit back and watch it submit to all those other places on the internet. My window currently shows that it is submitted to over 1 MILLION places on the internet. Not bad for such a cheap submission software.

That’s all there is to search engine submission! Easy day huh? Don’t get too relaxed though because this whole week is going to be all about modifying our website so that it starts making us money. Just what we want! This week will be some work, but I find it rather fun so hopefully you will too.

See you tomorrow!

Ok, let’s get started. You have finally posted your first article on your website so now what? In this next step we are going to concentrate on getting it ready for submission to the search engines. This is also a great time for me to reveal the subject of my niche content website to you because I have written an article on this very subject. Because of the experience I have in search engine optimization and web design I decided to create the Ultimate Website Traffic Secrets website.  I’m going to ask each of you to head over to my new niche content website and read the article “Optimize Your Website Meta Tags”. This article is exactly what today is about. You are going to be creating “meta” tags to put into the header page of your website.

What exactly are Meta tags? Meta tags are snippets of code filled with keywords and phrases that are found between the < HEAD> and < /HEAD> tags of your website and will help you get your search engine ranking up. Once you finish reading the article you should have a good understanding on how to create the Meta tags. Create your Meta tags in notepad so that you can tweak them based on keywords. Once you are satisfied with them then we can go ahead and move onto adding them to the website.

Just how do you get that code into your website anyway? The first thing you need to do is login to the admin center of your blog. I am using WordPress for all my examples so if you aren’t using WordPress, you will need to find other instructions. Once you are logged in, click on the tab “Appearance” tab and then select “Editor” from the submenu. Now comes the confusing part right? Well, not really. It’s actually pretty easy. On the right hand side you will see a bunch of files names. We are looking for one called “header”. If you click on that, the main page area will be filled with all of the code that makes up the header portion of your website.

The code that you wrote that make up your Meta tags needs to be placed inside of the <head> and </head> tags. I typically find it’s easiest to just look for the </head> line and put my Meta tag code directly on the line above it. Just make an empty line above and then copy and paste in all of your Meta tag code inside of it. Once it’s in there press the “Update File” button and your Meta tags are in place. Check your main website home page and be sure no funny code or characters are showing up to be sure you formatted them correctly.

That’s all there is to it. In my next post we are going to talk about how to actually submit your website to all of the major search engines, so get ready for it!