newbie in need of help

Hi,

i have recently set up my first site: http://www.algarverentalapartments.com and tried to follow some seo guidelines from what i'd seen, i have been picked up by yahoo (its been up about 4 weeks) but not by any others. I tried to submit to zeal.com but they refused my listing and told me to go to: http://listings.looksmart.com/?chan=zealgd which looks like a pay per click option. Does anyone know if there is anything else i need to do to get into major search engines (lycos, msn etc) i know google takes a while but be nice to be appearing on a few other biggies. I have also done a submission to ODP - i hear that takes a while but can you check status. Thanks in advance i cant believe how helpful this forum looks. Also what should i do to join the coop network as it seems a great idea to sign up?
thanks,
Neil

 

It takes links from other sites

http://www.algarverentalapartments.com

here's one

Also submith your site to other directories. You can start with my directory on my signature and then go to the directory forum to find more

 

yup. get links from as many sites as you can. spiders follow links and then will index your site. start with free directories, and maybe put a link in your signature file. MSN's robots are crawling signature files in forums constantly.


oh, i just visited your site and noticed that you use dynamic pages. this is not the best tactics to get ranked in the SE's .. you should try and re-write your site so that your files are static .html files instead. some robots completely ignore dynamic urls.

 

thanks for that, its a content management system i am using and have asked the webmaster to use static urls and apparently hes working on it!!! how can i get a signature on this forum with a link at the bottom as you suggested?

 

You can help your webmaster out by pointing to some of the 304 redirect threads that are in this forum. Using that method gives you the best of both worlds.

 

thanks and have passed onto webmaster, as mentioned any ideas how i get my signature at the bottom of my comments?

 

Go to your control panel (click User CP) and click on edit signature. Be sure to preview it and make sure it is what you want before saving it.

 

brilliant thanks for that, this is the first test.

 

Glad I could help.. There is quite a bit about vbcode syntax in the FAQ and it's pretty interesting reading, at least for a geek like me.

 

Do the search engine spider sites with higher page ranks more often or just more thurough, sorry if this is a stupid question, im new.