The following
is a list of search engines and directories that you can use to submit
your Artopium Profile
URL (or any other URL) for indexing. Doing this will ensure that
those who look for your art, music, fashion, independent film or book
online will be able to find you. If you are not sure what is meant by
URL, please visit Artopium's Librarby page "Understanding
the URL". Or find more information on How
to Promote Your Creative Works Online. Also be sure to check out
Artopium's List of Social Networking
Sites for additional places to create links to your Creative Works.
It is important to note that there is a difference between
a search engine and a directory, and knowing that difference can
go a long way to getting your URL listed. One fundamental difference
between search engines and directories is the way websites get entered
into their index. A search engine sends out a spider that follows links
to capture details about web pages. Directories depend on people entering
details about a web page and human editors actually approving (or disapproving)
them. Below are some tips for submitting to each type.
Search Engines
Directories
Important Information for Submitting Your
URL to the Seach Engines
Search engines will blacklist your URL from their index very quickly
if you continually submit it over and over again. Submit it once and
forget about it for about 6 months. Seriously, it can take that long,
so just wait; it will get indexed eventually. Periodically check back
to that search engine and type in keywords you know are on your page
to see if it comes up. If you have not developed good link popularity
for that page then there is a good chance it will not even be in the
top 100 (or even 1000) results. Type in more specific keywords (like
your name or the name of an artistic work/album/etc.) to see if it comes
up higher in the results. Your Artopium profile page should come up
on the first page in most searchs with the keywords "artopium YOUR
DISPLAYNAME" with name you entered at sign-up for your Dislpay
Name.
Important Information for Submitting Your
URL to the Directories
All of the advice above for search engines holds just as true for directories,
plus a whole lot more. Directories will only accept URLs that are submitted
EXACTLY as their rules and guidelines instruct you to. For this reason,
it is imperative that you READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY and follow
all instructions. Each directory you visit should take anywhere from
10 minutes to an hour to create the listing for your link. NOT ALL THESE
DIRECTORIES WILL ALLOW YOUR URL. Some have rules about linking to pages
within a site, such as your Artopium profile page, and will only allow
the main domain name (www.artopium.com) to be listed. Please do not
try to submit your Artopium Profile URL to these directories as it actually
harms you in the long run. Directories also want concise, descriptive,
and most importantly OBJECTIVE descriptions, so stay away from words
like "best", "cool", "top" or any other
word that might imply a judgement or bias. Also, if you are submitting
your Artopium Profile URL, avoid using the word "Artopium"
in your description as it will already be in the URL.
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