Entering general details

In this first section, you get to know, how to enter general details that are required for submitting your website to search services. First, select the Data section.

Website section

In the Website section enter details about your website:

Title: Enter a short title that best represents your website. Companies should include the company name in the title.

URL: Enter the  URL of your website (e.g."http://www.myserver.com"). Before submitting your websites to search services make sure that you entered the URL correctly and that people can access your website on the Internet. To do so, establish a connection to the Internet, and click the Site Checker button.

Description (short): Enter a description of your website (not more than 60 characters). In this description you can define the topic of your website or the field of your company or association.   

Description (long): Enter a detailed description of your website (not more than 255 characters). Here you can further describe your website, company or association.  

Keywords: Enter the terms, Internet users may type in the search field of search engines to find your website. As search engines only read keywords from the meta tags and directories only accept very few entries, you only need to type in 5 to 10 keywords. To enter the keywords do the following:

1. Click the key button , to open the Keywords for directories dialog box.  
   
   

2. Now enter the desired keywords into the fields 1 to 15. Pay attention to priority while entering keywords. The number of required or allowed keywords varies depending on the search service. Therefore, enter the most important keyword into the field 1 and the less important keyword into the field 15.

3. Then click OK.

4. To paste keywords from clipboard, click the clipboard button.

5. Then the Import keywords from clipboard dialog box opens.
   
   

6. In the Clipboard contents field the text that is currently saved to clipboard is displayed. You cannot change this text. In the Results preview, the keywords generated by the content of clipboard is displayed.

7. Then click OK, to confirm the specified keywords.

Language: Choose the language of your website.

Site typ: Choose the type of your website. For example, companies should always choose Commercial as Site type.

Category: Choose from the specified option the category that best represents your website. If your website is specialized and none of the suggested category fits, submit your website manually to directories. To choose the "right" category is very important for correctly submitting your website to search engines! If you define a wrong category, the submission is probably ignored by the corresponding search service. To find the corresponding category, in spite of the many categories available, use the quick search or the filter function:

1. Click the arrow at the right corner of the Category field to open the Select a category dialog box.

2. In the Quick search field enter the desired category. If the entered category is available, click OK. Or:

3. Check the Filter check box and enter the first letter of the category you are searching for. Now the filter displays the categories containing the entered character chain.

4. Select a category and click OK.

After filling in all fields of the Website section, save your entries to reuse them for subsequent submissions. To do so, click the button and choose a name for your site information file (*sit). In this file, you also save the entries you made in the Person, Webmaster and Company sections.

Person section

In the Person section, enter details about the person that is responsible for the website. This has not to be the webmaster.

1. Fill in the fields First name, Last name, Salutation, Title and Age. If you cannot fill in the Title field, enter a slash "/".
   
   

2. Click the button to save the details in a SIT file.

3. Now go to the Webmaster section, to enter details about the webmaster.

Webmaster section

In the Webmaster section, enter details about the webmaster.

1. Fill in the fields Last & first name and Email.

2. In the Password field enter a new password. Do not use a FTP or other access password. At some search services you need to open a user account before you submit your website. The password entered here is then assigned to these search services. Now you can log in at these search services using the specified password.
   
   

3. Then save the entered details by clicking .

Company section

In the Company section, enter details about your company. If you do not want to publish all of your details, enter a slash "/" in the corresponding field:

1. In the Company field enter the name of the company.

2. From the drop down list Country choose the country where the company is located.

3. Then fill in the fields State / county, Address, Postal code, City, General email, Phone, Fax and Mobile.
   
   
   
   Please notice that some operators of search services use your information entered for other purposes. It might happen that you get mass advertising via email. However, if you enter a wrong (not valid) email address on purpose, some search services ignore your submission. Therefore, establish a new email address, for example at Yahoo or Hotmail, which you only use for passing to search services.

4. In the Products field enter your most important products. However, only few search services use this field.

5. In the Toll-free field enter your toll-free service number, if available.

6. Then save your project details by clicking .

Now you have completed the entry of your website details. In the next chapter you learn how to generate meta tags for each page of your website and how to add them to the corresponding HTML document.