Posted by Heidi Venablerose on 10/3/08 7:29pm
Msg #266295

Google search

I've just designed a simple website and am trying to get it to show up on a local search for notaries. Does anyone have a tip or two?

Reply by LKT/CA on 10/3/08 8:51pm
Msg #266297

Yes, you can advertise for free at Google Local Business Center.

Reply by MichiganAl on 10/3/08 9:09pm
Msg #266301

Submit you site to the DMOZ:

http://www.dmoz.org/add.html


Don't just hope Google finds you, submit your site to Google:

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Reply by Dennis/CA on 10/4/08 11:31pm
Msg #266377

Hi Heidi,

I've had a great deal of success with the Rotary Club website I maintain. I found using a LOT of text links (like the "contact" link you have on your home page) brought great results. I linked to other websites, but more importantly used a lot of text links within my site to get to other pages on my site. Menu buttons, look good, but it is the text links that are picked up by google's "spiders" that crawl the web and index the pages. Keywords are also important from what I read, but I never really worried about them. Think "Text Links" and your site will start showing up in the search results.

Two helpful info pages from Google are their "Webmaster Guidelines" located at:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

and

"Google 101: How Google crawls, indexes, and serves the web" located at:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897

Both pages are easy reading.

I hope this helps.

Dennis . . .