Dont really need to bother with adding the site to google manually, chances are the crawlers will get to your site before the add url does.
Do not use automatic submitters who claim to submit your site to every search engine. These do not work effectively and cause your site to be penalized quite heavily by some search engines (i.e lower than deserved listing)
The first thing you have to do is have a good <title> tag. Make it clear (it will appear at the top of the browser, I.E Mine is currently Google - Cable Forum.
Next is a good meta description, this is what will appear under your title in the listings. Make sure its short, to the point and honest but make sure it is accurately describing your site and contains keywords the user is likely to search for (i.e A site about simpsons would have
"A site following the Simpsons and all the other fun stuff they do") lame example but notice the use of the keyword simpson.
Good meta tags. None of these are a magic formula but they help. Meta tags is where to contain your keywords. Think of every possible word that your user would type too find your site and put these into the keywords (include misspellings)
Here is a example of some code:
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<title>Damien O'Neill</title> put your title in these tags
<meta name="Keywords" content="Damien O'Neill blog kent damian oneill " />Keywords here
<meta name="Description" content="Personal Site and Blog for Damien O'Neill" />Description here
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These go about the body tag in your HTML.
Talking of HTML search engines can and do take notice of bad code, they are only machines so the better and more valid your code is, the better chance you have of getting a good ranking. Ensure your code is complaint with W3 standards and if it uses CSS, CSS.
This is the link for the validator put your site in there to check and fix any problems:
http://validator.w3.org/
PM if you have any trouble with your code here.
Your website content needs to be good, and ensure the first paragraph of your index.htm file contains the keywords as often as possible without making it spam. Clever writing is required here again using the simpsons example:
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Welcome to the Simpsons! Or more accurately the best Simpsons website on the internet. Following the story of Springfield's favorite yellow family: Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Bart Simpson and Maggie Simpson
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Notice all the keywords yet it still makes sense for the user who will not notice any trickery here. It is important to ensure it is relevant to your website and not spamming the engine.
Also Google likes sites that update often.
Finally, Get your site listed as many times as possible. Put it where ever you can including directories such as:
http://www.dmoz.org/. Ensure you are not spamming but get your site linked to! The more relevant the site is to yours the better as well. Get friends to link to your site and find as many ways as possible of getting your site linked to. This is the most important part! Also make sure the link is relevant IE Name the link the name of your site instead of
www.cableforum.co.uk use:
Cable Forum
If you do al these then wait or week or so and start searching for your site. It should have been noticed by now and will be slowly making its way up Google.
All of these steps are important for a good ranking so i recommend you do all of them. Also at the end of the day it is the quality of the site that will matter as this will generate the most links.
PM/Post if you need any more help, or help with above steps. It would help to see your site to give better advice
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Originally Posted by Nidge
How do you get your website up on Google? I need to advertise a mates website for him, he wants it on google, he just wants to put it in the search engine of google.
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Missed the second bit, The way engines work to get a good place on google you would make it attractive to other engines as well. So it is not really possible to be only listed on google, not that it makes much sense to be anyway