List
of Search Engines & Directories
Now of course I don't know for sure what you're experiencing, but perhaps you're feeling a little anxious right now about the idea of putting your art or music out onto the Internet. That's understandable as this is a rather large collection of links to reputable and verified URL submission pages, each of which will bring your Artopium profile page attention once your URL has been accepted. Remember, the more search engines you submit your Artopium URL to, the more attention your work will receive, and thus, the more sales you will make. And I think you're going to enjoy being surprised that after you submit your URL to the first few search engines you'll find that it's easy to go ahead and submit to all of them.
You can
find more information on How
to Promote Your Creative Works Online in the library. 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, 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 indexes.
- A search engine sends out a spider that follows links
to capture details about web pages. This is mostly an automated process. When you submit your URL you are waiting for the search engine's spider to "crawl" your page and index it.
Directories depend on people who enter the
details about a web page and human editors who make the final approval. When you submit your URL to a directory you are waiting for a human editor to look over your page and approve it.
- At the bottom of this page are some tips for submitting to each type.
NOTICE: Your Artopium profile URL is automatically indexed into Google and Dmoz.org. Please do not resubmit to these sites.
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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