Is Webcraft a worldwide promotion service? - [Return to the Top] A1:Yes, all of our submission services are aimed at a worldwide promotion level. We submit to all the major search engines on the entire web. When you use our submission services, you are promoting your website to the whole world. How many search engines will you submit my site to? - [Return to the Top] A2: We offer several options that are described in our online store. While there are thousands of search engines in the world, only about 1000 of them are popular enough to generate considerable traffic. Our A3 & A3.1 package includes all of them. The most important search engines we submit to include Yahoo Search, Google, Lycos, Overture, MSN Search, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, AOL Search, HotBot, Excite, Netscape Search, LookSmart, All The Web, InfoSpace, Webcrawler, Fast, Direct Hit, and iWon. How soon will you submit my site? - [Return to the Top] A3: For paid submissions we will submit your site within 12 hours of receiving your order. Once your order is processed we will notify you by e-mail. You may also request express submission service to have your website submitted to all of the search engines within 1 hour. How long will it take the engines to list my site? - [Return to the Top] A4: From a few days to 3 months. While many of smaller engines will list your site within one week, larger sites like Google or Lycos take from two weeks up to three months. Such a delay is due to the extremely high number of submissions (sometimes millions) most popular engines receive every day. Will my site be listed in all the search engines that you submit to? - [Return to the Top] A5: Over 90%. Search engines are computer programs and sometimes they don't index your website the first time. Search engines also clean their databases on a periodical basis, so if your site is not maintained well they can delete it from their databases. Anyway we suggest re-submitting your site every 3-6 months. What is your basic submission service? - [Return to the Top] A6: A1 and A2 is our basic paid submission service. It's main aim is to get your site correctly indexed in the most important search engine's databases, including Yahoo Search, Google, Lycos, Overture, MSN Search, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, AOL Search, HotBot, Excite, Netscape Search, LookSmart, All The Web, InfoSpace, Webcrawler, Fast, Direct Hit, and iWon. However if you are looking for heavy search engine traffic we recommend you to consider our A3 & A3.1 services. Is your submission service a one time charge or is it a monthly charge? - [Return to the Top] A7: Our A1 and A2 services are a one time fee. Our A3 & A3.1 is a monthly charge. Please review the descriptions of the services for details. Does the initial charge for A1 includes any extra services? - [Return to the Top] A8: No, add on services such as express submission, multiple URL submission or monthly resubmission, are extra. The aim of these add on's is to improve your website's search engine listings. What are the major advantages of Submit ONGOING? - [Return to the Top] A9: There are three major advantages of A3 & A3.1 that result in increased efficiency as compared to A1 or A2 services. First of all your website will be submitted to virtually every important search engine in the world, which will allow you to reach up 89% of Internet audience. Another valuable feature of A3 & A3.1 is a deep promotion. Deep promotion means that not only your main page URL will be submitted to the search engines, but EVERY page within your website will be submitted to all the search engines individually. We have a program - spider - that extracts the URL address for each page within your site and then adds it to your submission information. With every page indexed individually you dramatically increase chances of your site to appear in the search result pages. Finally, with A3 & A3.1 we submit the current version of your website to the search engines on a monthly basis, which ensures that your site is always properly indexed and positioned. How can I increase chances of my site to be listed in all the search engines? - [Return to the Top] A10: The most important thing is that your site must be 100% functioning - it may not be under construction, contain broken links or malfunctioning forms. It is also important that all the pages within your website must contain descriptive Meta Tags, including TITLE, KEYWORDS, and DESCRIPTION. There are also a few things that you should look for within your page that search engines may not like. They include frames, redirection pages, heavy java script, Flash, and other media usage. The last but not the least, your website must be hosted at really stable hosting, where it never experiences any considerable downtime. What are Meta Tags? - [Return to the Top] A11: Meta tags are HTML scripts that tell search engines a title, keywords and description of your site. They are "invisible" and sit in the HTML code of web page. They look like and can be found between the and tags in the source code of your page. Meta tags are an important tool to improve your search engine position and to increase traffic. Does my position in the search engines depends on my web hosting provider? - [Return to the Top] A12: Absolutely. Search engines delete from their databases sites that often don't respond or have slow connection. So if your web hosting provider does not guarantee you 99.9% uptime or has poor connection, then you can loose your position and listing in all the search engines. If you have any doubt in your hosting company you should consider switching to Afrihost.com the reliable hosting providers we recommend. What website details are required by search engines? - [Return to the Top] A13: Most search engines require your website URL, title, keywords, and description. Some also require your name, country telephone no and contact e-mail. Are my personal details that I submit kept confidential? - [Return to the Top] A14: Yes, All personally identifiable information provided by individuals is maintained in confidence by SMS Online, and is never shared with any third parties. I submitted my website and then changed it's code. Do I need to submit again? - [Return to the Top] A15: Search engines collect the source code of your website when they spider its pages. Spidering can generally take place anytime ranging from immediately to 60 days after you submit. Though none of the major search engines instantly index pages, we recommend to make any changes to your site no later than 2 weeks after submitting. How often should I re-submit my website? - [Return to the Top] A16: Search engines clean their databases every 90 days, as they don't want to serve out-of-business websites. If your site gets down frequently, has broken links or is not maintained well, search engines can delete your listing from their databases. To make sure that the current version of your site is listed in all the search engines you should resubmit it on a regular basis. As a general rule, every 2-3 months is a good time frame to resubmit your website details using A1 or A2. Another option is to choose our A3 & A3.1 service to have every page of your website submitted monthly to every important search engine in the world. | 
