How long before I am listed on Google?

First, submit your site to Google here:

Submit your URL to Google

It can take many weeks for Google to index your site.

In the meantime, check that your index page is well optimised for the search engines. Pay special attention to your index page TITLE and DESCRIPTION meta tags.

Take a look at the following page for hints and advice concerning your meta tags.

SEO Help pages

We have some general advice on site optimisation at our Optimisation Tips area:

Site Optimisation tips

Please follow the link below to view Google’s SEO starter guide:

SEO Starter guide

Even with the best optimisation, it is very much hit+miss. The Google ranking algorithm changes very frequently and so any high ranking achieved may only be temporary before the algorithm gives another site a chance at the top.

We wish you the best of luck with your site optimisation.

Top 10 Article Directories

Once you have spent many hours writing your article, where is the best place to submit it?

As you will have noticed, there are THOUSANDS of article directories out there. So, to save you time, we have compiled a list of the 10 most popular directories – and listed them in order of popularity ๐Ÿ™‚

1. ezinearticles.com
2. articlesbase.com
3. buzzle.com
4. goarticles.com
5. helium.com
6. articlesnatch.com
7. articlealley.com
8. articledashboard.com
9. ideamarketers.com
10. amazines.com

Remember to write unique quality articles, do not be tempted to copy text from other websites as this is easily spotted by the search engines.