Google’s poor link: query operator has taken a huge beating from the SEO community for the past few years. The query operator’s reputation has been dragged through the mud so much that most people now use Yahoo! for link research (which is equivalent to asking Monaco to handle your national intelligence initiatives).

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Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Lots of webmasters find this a scary process. How do you do it without hurting your site’s performance in Google search results?

Your aim is to make the transition invisible and seamless to the user, and to make sure that Google knows that your new pages should get the same quality signals as the pages on your own site. When you’re moving your site, pesky 404 (File Not Found) errors can harm the user experience and negatively impact your site’s performance in Google search results.

Let’s cover moving your site to a new domain (for instance, changing from www.example.com to www.example.org). This is different from moving to a new IP address; read this post for more information on that.

Here are the main points:

• Test the move process by moving the contents of one directory or subdomain first. Then use a 301 Redirect to permanently redirect those pages on your old site to your new site. This tells Google and other search engines that your site has permanently moved.

• Once this is complete, check to see that the pages on your new site are appearing in Google’s search results. When you’re satisfied that the move is working correctly, you can move your entire site. Don’t do a blanket redirect directing all traffic from your old site to your new home page. This will avoid 404 errors, but it’s not a good user experience. A page-to-page redirect (where each page on the old site gets redirected to the corresponding page on the new site) is more work, but gives your users a consistent and transparent experience. If there won’t be a 1:1 match between pages on your old and new site, try to make sure that every page on your old site is at least redirected to a new page with similar content.

• If you’re changing your domain because of site rebranding or redesign, you might want to think about doing this in two phases: first, move your site; and second, launch your redesign. This manages the amount of change your users see at any stage in the process, and can make the process seem smoother. Keeping the variables to a minimum also makes it easier to troubleshoot unexpected behavior.

• Check both external and internal links to pages on your site. Ideally, you should contact the webmaster of each site that links to yours and ask them to update the links to point to the page on your new domain. If this isn’t practical, make sure that all pages with incoming links are redirected to your new site. You should also check internal links within your old site, and update them to point to your new domain. Once your content is in place on your new server, use a link checker like Xenu to make sure you don’t have broken legacy links on your site. This is especially important if your original content included absolute links (like www.example.com/cooking/recipes/chocolatecake.html) instead of relative links (like …/recipes/chocolatecake.html).

• To prevent confusion, it’s best to make sure you retain control of your old site domain for at least 180 days.

• Add your new site to your Webmaster Tools account, and verify your ownership of it. Then create and submit a Sitemap listing the URLs on your new site. This tells Google that your content is now available on your new site, and that we should go and crawl it.

• Finally, keep both your new and old site verified in Webmaster Tools, and review crawl errors regularly to make sure that the 301s from the old site are working properly, and that the new site isn’t showing unwanted 404 errors.

We’ll admit it, moving is never easy - but these steps should help ensure that none of your good web reputation falls off the truck in the process.

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Many internet users faces a problem to search for a good list of tools to add on so that they can unveil their website sooner or in the best optimized way on the net. You are not alone when this is faced cause i have come across search engine submission website that have heading saying “Get free submission to 350 search engines“, and after see it, i was tempted to start filling in the form and after clicking the submit button they tell you there is a one time fee setup with a $99/year submission fee to pay so that your site can be submitted to 350 search engines while 14 of them are free!

Pay to submit or do it for free
My question is will there be a need to submit to other search engines? Ain’t most of the popular search engines offering url addons for free nowadays? Why should you pay to get your site into the popular search engines when it can be done for free.

Of course, they offer more than just submission of your site and includes assistance in giving you keyword suggestion tool, readiness report, ranking report, link popularity report, broken links report but I can tell you all these are also free tools that you can find online.

Having a Lazy monster beside you
The reason why people feel they should purchase the package offered is because they want their site to be submitted into the search engines quicker and fastest and get indexed and feel satisfied! Stop being lazy and start to add your url manually for FREE!

Here i have compile a sufficient list of popular free search engines site that allows submission of your url and they will crawl to your website within 2-8 weeks, it varies and don’t expect faster crawling since it is free!

Add your url to MSN

Add your url to Alexa

Add your url to Google

Add your url to Yahoo!

Add your url to Jayde

Add your url to InfoTiger

Add your url to ScrubTheWeb

Add your url to Gigablast

Anyone have any more free sites to share and would like to add on to this list could contact me.

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