Candy Crush Saga, the highly addictive puzzle game, is unmistakeably the most popular game out there today.
It’s No. 3 in the Apple App Store and is the top game on Facebook, with 44 million monthly active users, according to AppData.
It’s played more than 600 million times a day and is bringing in an estimated $633,000 every day, according to mobile gaming monetization company Think Gaming
We highly recommend manually submitting your website pages to the search engines. That said, the search engines give no guarantee of ranking your page because you have manually submitted it. It is a tool that we use to let the search engines know that we have new information to share.
We suggest manual submission of your site’s pages to Google, Yahoo! and Bing because they have made it apparent that it is what they prefer. The search engines have implemented manual submission as a best practice to protect themselves from extreme levels of spam.
It is important to submit your site’s pages to all of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) because even though the other engines have less traffic than Google, they still have millions of users. When you submit a URL or domain name to the search engines, it could take anywhere from two to four weeks to get indexed. Sometimes your page will not get indexed after you submit it, if that occurs, wait four weeks and then resubmit the page again.
If you are unhappy with your web page’s ranking results, take a look at what your competition is doing. Make sure you are following the basic rules of search engine optimization. Make changes to the page and resubmit it to the search engines. You can submit your pages a maximum of two times per month until you are listed in the major search engines’ results.
Google’s URL submit is very quick and easy. Just go to Google’s web page for URL submitting, type in your URL, type in the message that ensures Google you are an individual not a software robot and click “add URL.”
You can also submit your site map to Google via their Webmaster Tools.
Yahoo!
At Yahoo! you can submit your URLs for free, just like at Google. Go to Yahoo’s URL submission page, type in your URL and click “submit feed. You can also submit your website’s site map. Type in your domain name, http://<your domain name>/sitemapxml.aspx and click “submit feed”.
At Smart Solutions, we add all of our clients’ sitemaps to the auto-discovery directive, robots.txt. This ensures that all of the search engines automatically know about your sitemap. It does not hurt to manually submit your sitemaps, for the search engines that allow it.
Yahoo! Directory also has a paid submission process. The cost is $299 annually for each directory listing that you submit. We recommend submitting your site to the Yahoo! Directory if you are a commercial site. Yahoo! guarantees that your submission will be reviewed within seven business days. If your listing is accepted, the annual fee will reoccur in subsequent years.
Bing
Bing allows you to submit your URL, just like Google and Yahoo!. Go to Bing’s site submission page, type in the URL of your homepage (this is different than Google and Yahoo!). MSNBot will follow the links from your homepage to all of the pages on your site. Bing also requires you to identify yourself as a person, not an automated program, by typing the characters that you see in the picture.
http://search.msn.co.za/docs/submit.aspx
Ask
Ask presently does not allow you to submit URLs. However, they do allow you to submit your sitemap. Their interface for this isn’t as straight forward as the other engines but, you can submit your sitemap by pasting this URL into your browser bar and inserting your actual domain name…
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://<your domain name>/sitemapxml.aspx
Daniele has worked as a hyper-realistic illustrator, co-operating with editing and advertising companies, innovating with airbrush and testing out various painting techniques. He has painted backcloths up to 400 square meters in size. He has also painted trompe l’oeil images for private houses and public buildings. But it’s his body painting technique that appeals to us at Optical Spy, he developed this technique back in 1990 and his work has been used in advertising images and commercials, as well as fashion events and exhibitions. Daniele was awarded the 2007 Hero of the Year by Animal Planet television network.
If you would like to see more of Guido’s work please take a look at his website guidodaniele
