How does a search engine or directory work? Search engines use "spiders" to electronically index your site. They will spider your entire website when you submit to them, a process that takes anywhere from 24 hours to 8 weeks. Examples of search engines are Lycos, Alta Vista, MSN, and Excite.

Directories use humans to manually index your site. Because of the human element, sites are put under specific categories thus providing better search results. Examples of directories are Yahoo, Open Directory, and Infoseek.

The Internet is filled with websites covering every topic and service under the sun. Most likely there are a few, if not a few hundred covering the very business you are trying to promote with your website. It is important that your website comes up ahead of your competition in the search engines.

How do I get my website to rank above my competition in the search engines? Long gone are the days when merely submitting your site was enough to get you top placement. Web pages should be designed to maximize keywords and other important search engine criteria in order to get to the top. Only then, is your site ready to be submitted and resubmitted until it ranks at the top of the search engines. ignitemysite can put you there with our affordable marketing plans.

Once I get to the top, how do I stay there? There are thousands of sites coming online daily. In order to make room for these new sites, search engines are constantly bumping down older sites and eventually removing them from their indexes all together. To complicate things further, search engines are constantly changing their criteria for what gets a website top placement. Placing your website on a resubmission plan will guarantee that your site remains in the top ranking and is resubmitted to the search engines and directories on a regular basis.