The two reports, the Submit-Spider-List Report and the Ranking Report, are prepared independently of each other. A page may be indexed by a Search Engine (and listed) and still not be showing a page rank for the specific keyword.

Here's why...

The Submit-Spider-List Report periodically queries the Search Engines to obtain a list of all your pages that are listed by the individual Search Engine (SE).

Once this query confirms that one of your pages is listed, the date of the query will be shown as the Date Listed in the Submit Spider List Report.

A query will then be scheduled to find the rank for the specific keyword for that page. This will not happen immediately after this page has index or listing confirmation as we do not wish to overload the Search Engines.

It's all about careful timing. You are probably anxious to see how your pages rank with the Search Engines. It is rewarding to see that the SEs are acknowledging all your hard work. However, the most important thing you can do is focus on providing more relevant content and getting incoming links.

With the right focus, the rest will follow naturally. If it has been more than 4 weeks since your page was listed and you still do not see a page rank for the page in question, please contact our Support team at the following URL so that they can promptly investigate...

http://support.sitesell.com/contact-support.html

GOOGLE

Google was the first to introduce page submissions by Sitemaps. A Sitemap is essentially a page formatted as an XML file that lists all pages at your domain together with their last modification date.

The good news? SBI! automatically creates and updates your Sitemap for you.

You need to do just one quick action. In order to start the process, you must manually submit your Sitemap to Google. After that, SBI! takes over.

Step-by-step instructions for submitting your Sitemap to Google can be found in the Search Engine HQ. In Site Central, simply scroll down to the TrafficCenter section and click the Search Engine HQ link.

YAHOO!

Shortly after Google introduced submission by Sitemaps, Yahoo! followed suit. Yahoo! Sitemaps use a different format, but SBI! once again automatically creates the Yahoo! Sitemap for you.

Just as you did with Google, you must manually submit your Sitemap to Yahoo! once in order to get the ball rolling. The Yahoo! submission process is outlined in the Search Engine HQ as well.

WINDOWS LIVE

Windows Live does not yet offer page submission through Sitemaps. No doubt that they will soon. Until then, the World Submitter will help you submit your pages to Windows Live with optimum efficiency.

Whenever you build or modify a page, our proprietary algorithm will determine if you should submit your page at that time. If the timing is appropriate, it will display Window Live's graphical challenge after you build your page.

Enter the letter combination from the Graphical Challenge in the Window Live Code: field and click the Submit to Windows Live button.

The World Submitter restricts how many pages you can submit to Windows Live so that it will be impossible to spam Windows Live and get your site penalized.

If the World Submitter determines that a page should not be submitted at that time (for example, you already submitted another page in the last 24 hours), it will tell you. You can then submit the page later by following these steps...

Step 1) In Site Central, scroll down to the TrafficCenter and click the Search Engine HQ link.

Step 2) Click the Page Name of the page you wish to submit. A window with the Submit-Spider-List Report will pop up.

Step 3) If the World Submitter determines that you should submit the page at this time, it will display a Submit Me link beside Windows Live. Click that link.

Step 4) Enter the letter combination from the Graphical Challenge in the Windows Live Code: field and click the Submit to Windows Live button.

Teoma/Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves (which gets its search results from Teoma) does not allow you to submit your pages. To get listed by Teoma, its spider must find your page, so you will need some in-pointing links to your SBI! site.

SBI! provides you with some great resources to help you build an incoming links program...

1) Download Make Your Links WORK!. Get your free copy in the DownloadCenter section of Site Central.

2) Use Inbound Link Opportunities (STEP 1) searches through Search It!...

http://searchit.sitesell.com/

3) Register for Value Exchange...

http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/

OTHER SEARCH ENGINES

SBI!'s WorldSubmitter submits your site to a number of smaller Search Engines automatically. These Search Engines will probably not bring you much traffic, but SBI! likes to cover all possibilities.

Please note... We also submit to a group of regional engines that can change from time to time. When we launch SBI!'s upcoming multi-lingual module, we'll announce which local engines (according to language chosen) that we submit to for each language.



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http://build.sitesell.com/help/traffic/key-rank-report.html

Here are two key points from this help file to highlight...

1) Your pages are now ranked for the keyword search without quotes, rather than enclosed within quotation marks. In most cases, you will see lower rankings reported as a result. However, the ranking more closely reflects what Internet users are actually searching for in the Search Engines.

2) You will also see some rankings reported in bold numbers, and others will be in non-bold (plain).

A bold ranking number indicates that this particular page is found at the Search Engines at the indicated position for its Specific Keyword.

A non-bold ranking number indicates that this particular page was not found in the Top 30 for its Specific Keyword. However, another page of your site was found for the same keyword in the Top 30 at this Search Engine. The non-bold number shows the highest ranking that any of your site's pages achieved for this particular keyword.

For additional details about the what, how, and why behind the changes to the SE Ranking Report, please see Ken's Forum post...

http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?p=90636

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Primary, Major Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Jeeves/Teoma)
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=12734

PPC
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=12079

Joint Ventures/Traffic Swaps/Value Exchange/Article Library/Sites/Others
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=12115

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1) Search Engines cull their databases every once in a while. It's their decision about which pages stay or go. Unfortunately, the choices are beyond anyone's control.

2) Search Engines occasionally experience glitches which sometimes accidentally drop listed pages. It's a random act that might affect one of your pages today and one of mine tomorrow.

The good thing is that SBI!'s WorldSubmitter will get back to work, and re-submit each page according to proper SE protocols and tolerances.

SE spiders are funny creatures. They may take weeks, or months, to visit your Web site. Best advice? Be patient.

Keep building Content-Content-Content. And then...

Once you have created at least 20 high-value pages, develop some quality incoming links. Building an incoming links program starts the snowball rolling and will also serve as a way to submit to engines like Ask Jeeves/Teoma which do not offer free submission. (Teoma's spiders must link to your site to find it.)

SBI! provides you with some great resources to help you build an incoming links program...

1) Download Make Your Links WORK!. Get your free copy at the Download Center at Site Central.

2) Use Inbound Link Opportunities (STEP 1) searches through Search It!...

http://searchit.sitesell.com/

3) Register for Value Exchange...

http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/

4) Review the traffic-building tips at the Tips 'N Techniques HQ, especially this article about page-tweaking...

http://sbitips.sitesell.com/tweak-or-not-tweak.html

The spiders can test your patience. But victory ultimately goes to the tortoise. So be patient and keep building Content. The spiders will come. And when they do, as they notice you building more Content, they will come more and more frequently. You can train them through Content (and a few inbound links).



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However, it will not submit/re-submit a TIER 1 or 2 page if...

a) it is indexed (certain proprietary exceptions)

b) it has been spidered within the past 7 days

c) it contains a meta-refresh tag (HTML uploaders only)

d) it's already in the submission queue (therefore, don't worry if you build a page 10 times an hour).

The Search Engines do not respond when too many different pages are being submitted, so WorldSubmitter submits some TIER 3, and only according to certain conditions, and only once, if ever.

This is where the power of a good Web site structure is key. By providing a Site Map that both the Search Engine spiders and visitors can use, you will be providing access to all of your pages at all times. You can decide to provide the Site Map on the home page only or on all of your pages via the NavBar.

SBI!'s WorldSubmitter submits your pages to the major global engines that accept free, non-password-protected submissions. These are listed in the Submit-Spider-List Report in the Search Engine HQ at Site Central. You can get this report at any time for any page. Simply click on the desired page in the Page Name column in the large table in the SE HQ.

Please note... We also submit to a group of regional engines that can change from time to time. When we launch Multi-Lingual SBI!, we'll announce which local engines (according to language chosen) that we submit to for each language.



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...to your keyword phrase and the Search Engine will still recognize it. A more comprehensive list is at...

http://www.searchengineworld.com/spy/stopwords.htm

Analyze It! will work for Specific Keyword phrases with or without stop words as long as you stay consistent throughout your entire page. If your keyword phrase does not have a stop word(s) when used in the Page Title block but does use one in the Text block, the tool will not pass the page. To correct this situation, all you need to do is edit the stop word out of the Title and re-analyze it. Everything will be good-to-go.

A helpful SBIer used this illustration in the SBI! Forums...

Let's say your Specific keyword for a page is holiday beach and that's what you entered in the Page Title block. Then you added stop words to your keyword phrase -- holiday at the beach -- in a Text block so that the content would flow better.

A Search Engine will just skim over the stop words. Analyze It!, on the other hand, will not and when it doesn't find holiday beach within the body of the page, the tool will tell you to include that keyword.

So how do you make both your readers and Analyze It! happy?

Use holiday beach wherever you want your Specific Keyword to appear in your Page Information. After that, click on the Analyze It! button for a clean bill of health. Then make a slight keyword adjustment in the body of your page. Use holiday at the beach instead to help your sentences read more smoothly and naturally.

As was mentioned earlier, a Search Engine sees no difference between your keyword phrase with stop words or without. If a surfer searches using quotes, a Search Engine will return the exact keyword. If the search is done without quotes, it will drop the stop words.

For the full discussion about stop words, please see this thread...

http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=1647

Log into the Forums using your regular username and password...

http://forums.sitesell.com/



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This data is updated on a periodic basis. If they were real time, this would require us to query the SEs for status on a continual basis which would soon cause us to be blocked by all SEs. SBI!'s powerful back-end tools would not function, as a result.

The best way to put your mind at rest is to select a specific day twice per month to check the SE HQ. In the meantime, continue to create more content pages and build momentum.

Please review The Tao of SBI!. This book is subtitled 'Why Seo Is Doomed And CTPM Is The Way.' A mere 44 easy-to-read pages, it may be the most important business book you ever read. The most successful SBIers focus on business and trust the Tao to take care of the rest. And it does...

http://buildit.sitesell.com/TaoOfSBI.pdf

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As well, there is no need to do so. SBI! automates the submission of your pages and their re-submission, depending on whether or when your pages are spidered or indexed (all in a Search-Engine-friendly fashion). SBI! looks after the back-end of your site, giving you time to build more and more content.

Remember...

Content is what attracts and PREsells targeted traffic. Build content and you build income!

Instead of submitting to Search Engines, you may want to consider submitting your site to relevant online directories and hubs. Many Search Engines and directories have long standing relationships with each other, so admission into a directory can sometimes get you speedier spidering (say that ten times) in one of the major Search Engines.

There are two great articles in the Tips 'n Techniques HQ that will help you with this:

Search It! Finds Inbound Link Opportunities for You!

http://sbitips.sitesell.com/link-hubs.html

Find more good mini-hub sites to get more links.

http://sbitips.sitesell.com/link-exchange.html

Simply login using your regular SBI! username and password...

http://login.sitesell.com



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The actual position of a Web page at the SEs is dynamic, while SBI!'s Ranking Report at Site Central is both dynamic and static. This means that ranking results may sometimes be out of sync.

Do you feel your pages are stuck at a >30 ranking?

Assuming you have good content that PREsells, and assuming that your pages pass Analyze It!, you may be at what Ken calls the hump stage.

As long as you are not making any fatal errors, the following two key steps will help you get past your individual hump as quickly as possible...

1) Steadily build content, content, content, that PREsells. If your pages pass Analyze It!, you give the engines enough hooks for them to understand what you're about. That takes care of the on-page criteria. But if you only have on-page criteria going for you in a competitive arena, that's generally not enough. So next...

2) Start getting some good inbound links. Once you have 20 pages...

a) Value Exchange is invaluable. (See Site Central for details.)

b) List at theme-relevant hubs and directories. Search It!...

http://searchit.sitesell.com/

... has these searches that will help you do this...

Inbound Link Opportunities... Google Wide
Inbound Link Opportunities... Google Tight
Inbound Link Opportunities... Yahoo! Wide
Inbound Link Opportunities... Yahoo! Tight

Getting inbound links is just one of many off-page criteria that are becoming more and more important to the engines. Why more important? Because off-page criteria basically reflect human behavior -- i.e., how humans respond to your site once they do start to find you. Getting inbound links is one of those factors.

An excellent review of the big picture regarding in-pointing links and off-page criteria is provided in the free Make Your Links WORK! available at...

http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/mylw.exe

There is one other optional step to consider (if it fits your situation)...

Build your own buzz. Use the Search Types in Discussions/Groups (in the Search It! tool) to find discussion groups that cover your topic. Become a regular and build your own brand and buzz.

Ken's final recommendation? If you have doubts about your site, content or anything else, take advantage of the SBI! Forums to get past the hump stage. Ask other SBIers for their opinions. That type of objective constructive information is priceless. So find the right forum and post there...

http://forums.sitesell.com/



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That's why DAY 7 of the Action Guide recommends that you do not waste time and effort on tweaking on-page criteria (ex., the number of times you use a keyword on the page). The best way to please Search Engines and your visitors is to create more high-value relevant content.

Content builds authority with the SEs, garners in-pointing links from other Webmasters, and builds your credibility with your visitors. Every newly analyzed-OK page offers another opportunity for top rankings.

This excellent TNT HQ article explains how to improve your ranking scores, and stay on the right side of the 80:20 equation. It's a must-read resource...

To Tweak Or Not To Tweak... That Is The Question

http://sbitips.sitesell.com/tweak-or-not-tweak.html



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WorldSubmitter gauges when it is OK to submit to each engine. So if you're modifying a page over and over again, don't worry. You are not spamming the engines.



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