I have a pay site, a hub and tgp's. I keep hearing things like, "you need to submit your site to toplist, directories and start trading traffic. Tell me if this is right...Since my HUB and TGP's lead back to my pay site, I should be submitting my Hub and TGP's to Toplist and directories not my pay site. This is all very confusing to me and I keep thinking that eventually this part will click and I'll know what your talking about. But the truth is, I have not the first clue. I don't even know if I've ever seen what a top list or directory looks like. I probably have but didn't know what I was looking at.

What info do I need to submit my site? Am I submitting my pay site, my TGP's or Hub? If I'm submitting and then one asks for a reciprocal link, where do I put it? HOW do I put in a reciprocal link? Do I need some sort of back door access to my site and Hub? I obviously can't go to my site and paste it on there or can I? Is a reciprocal link and a banner the same thing? If I'm to be submitting all three then is there a special name that correlates to submitting a Hub or TGP or Paysite? Something that identifies which of my sites goes where. I don't want to make the mistake of putting my paysite on a list for TGP's so how do I know the difference.


Lee responded with the best advise I got over there. Here it is for any newbies that need it...

Teresa..

Good question and a one that many newer webmasters / webmistresses ask.

For the most part you acually dont need to submit your site anywhere as nowadays most search engines are capable of finding links themselves but, with that said, you may want to do something as simple as a link exchange between your TGP / Hub and someone elses. This will ensure that your site / sites will be crawled by the search engines (as long as the persons site you link with is already listed).

Search engines, especially Google, actually give you a much higher ranking calculation if they are able to find your site on their own without you submitting it directly to them and Google specifically, will take 'points' away from your site if you do submit it to them directly.

Another alternative if a link exchange isnt a viable option is to have one of your sites submitted to the Open Directory over at http://www.dmoz.org/adult/ this is actually used by and crawled by Google on a regular basis and, if you get listed in Dmoz or Google pretty much every other search engine WILL list you eventually too

The most important thing to remember however is that having your site listed or even submitted is worthless if you havent properly understood how to optimize your site for the search engines, there are plenty of articles on SEO you can find if you take a few minutes to look for them which will give you a great deal of information when it comes to the fundamental basics of SEO.

Whatever route you decide to do however, make sure you dont pay to have your site listed, it really isnt necessary in todays day and age, if i can get top rankings in Google after 4 days of launcing a new site, pretty much anyone can, you just have t do a little reearch first and figure out the basic rules of SEO which, takes all of 30-60 minutes

Regards,

Lee


This was followed by a link to a tutorial that Chief Monkey wrote on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Here is the link, I hope it is helpful...

http://pornabees.com/adult-website-p...ebsite-seo.pdf

Thanks again Lee.