Looksmart's Express Listings Service

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Looksmart's Express Listings Service

Looksmart, one of the leading Internet directories has been charging site owners for listing consideration. For $199 US Looksmart will review your site within 48 hours for possible inclusion within their directory. For much lower fee of $49 US, Looksmart will review your site within 8 weeks.

Note that they do not guarantee that your site will get listed, just that they will review it. However, the criteria for a listing is one that almost all sites will meet. Just be sure to carefully read through all of the information that Looksmart provides.

KEYWORD POPULARITY

Knowing how popular different keywords and phrases are in Search Engines is a key ingredient behind tuning your web site to attract the most traffic. Find below a list of free or fee-based online resources to know how popular keywords and phrases are in search engines:

WordTracker: Free Key word Report. Every week they will send you the top 500 frequently searched words on the Internet, completely FREE of charge. These are taken from various metacrawlers and search engine voyeurs across the internet and stored in a database of over 30 million search terms.

GoTo: Free Online Suggestion Tool. Not sure what search terms to use? Enter a term related to your site and this tool will show you how many times that term was searched on last month.

Google: Adwords Advertising Program. To check how many searches are typically made each day, week and month for your keywords on Google use this free online tool from Google. Start here. Design an ad on the first page, then start entering the keywords and key phrases that are of interest to you. Tell the system to estimate your cost for those keywords and it will show you how many searches are made each day, week and month for your keywords on Google.

Altavista: The a: List. Most popular search terms on AltaVista. The a: List examines trends in the millions of terms that people enter in AltaVista's famous search engine every day. Whether the tallies go up or down or squiggle around, for any length of time, we report what they're doing. Every Tuesday, around noon, Pacific time, they post a new list, chart, and commentary, tallying the previous Sunday through Saturday. How they do it

Lycos: The Lycos 50 Daily report. Most popular search terms on Lycos. Click here to read how Lycos uncover these fascinatin' factoids.

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Webmaster Other FREEWARE		---------------------------------------------------- Looksmart's Express Listings Service Looksmart, one of the leading Internet directories has been charging site owners for listing consideration. For $199 US Looksmart will review your site within 48 hours for possible inclusion within their directory. For much lower fee of $49 US, Looksmart will review your site within 8 weeks. Note that they do not guarantee that your site will get listed, just that they will review it. However, the criteria for a listing is one that almost all sites will meet. Just be sure to carefully read through all of the information that Looksmart provides. KEYWORD POPULARITY Knowing how popular different keywords and phrases are in Search Engines is a key ingredient behind tuning your web site to attract the most traffic. Find below a list of free or fee-based online resources to know how popular keywords and phrases are in search engines: WordTracker: Free Key word Report. Every week they will send you the top 500 frequently searched words on the Internet, completely FREE of charge. These are taken from various metacrawlers and search engine voyeurs across the internet and stored in a database of over 30 million search terms. GoTo: Free Online Suggestion Tool. Not sure what search terms to use? Enter a term related to your site and this tool will show you how many times that term was searched on last month. Google: Adwords Advertising Program. To check how many searches are typically made each day, week and month for your keywords on Google use this free online tool from Google. Start here. Design an ad on the first page, then start entering the keywords and key phrases that are of interest to you. Tell the system to estimate your cost for those keywords and it will show you how many searches are made each day, week and month for your keywords on Google. Altavista: The a: List. Most popular search terms on AltaVista. The a: List examines trends in the millions of terms that people enter in AltaVista's famous search engine every day. Whether the tallies go up or down or squiggle around, for any length of time, we report what they're doing. Every Tuesday, around noon, Pacific time, they post a new list, chart, and commentary, tallying the previous Sunday through Saturday. How they do it Lycos: The Lycos 50 Daily report. Most popular search terms on Lycos. Click here to read how Lycos uncover these fascinatin' factoids.