[Eddie]

Hi,

Can anyone help me please? I've designed a web site for my Mother In Law's business and she obviously needs it registered with the big search engines like yahoo and google to make it at all profitable. I have never registered a site and don't know how to go about it and what sort of cost I'm looking at. Does anyone have any info that might help me.

If it helps, the site is http://www.harrishats.co.uk

Any info will be most welcomed. Cheers in advance.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

haha my mother-in-law.

god bless you eddie.

[Eddie]

Don't get it?

[Mcqueen_]

Don't use images as text, the crawlers are blind so cannot read and find what content the site has.
Don't use frames.
Use semantic markup, seperating content and presentation.
Get similar sites to link to the site, and the bots will follow the links and crawl the site.

It can take over 6 months to get listed.

[Eddie]

Thanks, That's helpful in a non-helpful way but it is appreciated. I have already designed the site so that all of the text bar a few extra bits are images - it's the only way I could get the graphical look I wanted. I haven't used frames. I have no idea what you mean by semantic markup and I will look into getting similar sites to link to it.

I know it can take a while to register.

Can I not actually pay google and yahoo to list my site?

[Sidders]

See http://www.google.com/ads/

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

or even..

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/addurl.html

which would be better...

[David]

Your mother in law wouldn't happen to be related to the webmaster of this site?!

[David]

and you have used frames... One main one to point to the actual URL of the site, http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eddienock/harrishats

[MK Chris]

Apart from most of the big search engines, who index sites through links, as McQueen pointed out, some web hosts have a search engine submission tool - although your free web space from Tiscali probably won't do that.

I'd say you need a proper web host, as David says, so that you don't have to use URL masking to point to your free web host. I find ScotReg very good and reasonably priced...

[Eddie]

Yeah, I will look in to that Topher. She doesn't mind spending a bit of money to make some money so I think we'll look into having the site hosted properly.

And no, David, My mother in law is not related to Chris, Harris is her maiden name it just worked better with hats and it's kind of a family business with her sisters, some of whom still are called Harris.