SUBMISSION:GLOSSARY

Domain Name= This is the same as your URL (see below). It is the name of your web site (www.myname.com) that is registered with a service like Network Solutions or equivalent.

FFA= Free For All (FFA) is a type of web site that lists other web sites in categories for free. These require constant submissions since each category may limit the number of listings thus dropping older web site listings to allow for new listings.

FTP= (File Transfer Protocol) The Internet service that transfers files from one computer to another, over standard phone lines via the internet.

HTML= (Hypertext Markup Language). The standard language for describing the contents and appearance of pages on the World Wide Web (internet). It is the source code that is a text based description of your web site.

Hyperlink= A link from text or images on one web page to another location on that web page, to another location on that web site or to another web site on the internet. Hyperlinks are the primary way to navigate between pages and among web sites. The cursor may change, text may alter or an image may animate to let you know there is a link there.

Keywords= Words that best describe your site or describe what is on your site. These words are used by search engines to find your web site and rank it in order of matches. Think in terms or words that the average person would use to find your site on a search engine.

Meta Tag= HTML Information in your web page source code that provides detailed information (keywords, description and URL title) to describe your web page. Depending on your web site design, this information may need to be revised to help with your submission and ranking before you submit your URL.

Ranking Keywords= This is a short list of the main keyword(s) you feel users will enter when looking for your web site. Search engines rank or display lists of web sites in order of keyword matches. A match may be determined by various means, some of which may be: order of exact match (keywords in the exact order on the web site), best match (any keyword match in any order) or by the number of keyword matches, just to name a few. Hint: Usually web site designers use too many keywords that are never used by someone looking for your site, by refining your keywords you may improve your ranking.

Submission= In order for a search engine or a FFA to know about a particular web site on the internet the URL information must be manually added to there list of hundreds or hundreds of thousands of URL's. Once the search engine or FFA has the specific information for a URL it will list it for a period time based on the number of listings in a particular category, number of hits or various other criteria. This submission process may take from 10-30 minutes depending on the complexity of the search engine, this adds up to hundreds of hours of valuable time when submitting to hundreds and/or thousands of search engines and FFA sites.

Search Engine= A search engine is a web site that

URL= (Uniform Resource Locator) A string that supplies the Internet address of a Web site or resource on the World Wide Web (internet), along with the protocol by which the site or resource is accessed.  It is the specific location of a web site on the internet. Usually it looks like the following: http://www.websitename.com .org, .mil, .net, etc... Some other URL types are “gopher,” which gives the Internet address of a Gopher directory and “ftp” which gives the network location of an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) resource.

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