I recently heard my friend saying that valid HTML & CSS is impotant. It can make your website rank higher in Google search. Is that true?? To prove this I browse a lot about this, and here’s the result:

• From site-reference.com, saying that “Not only did Google rank both sites with obviously wrong HTML higher, they even refused to include one of the sites with valid HTML altogether“!
• A discussion from webmasterworld. My summary, valid HTML does not help your ranking but probably will help you get indexed.
• From streetdirectory. “How important is valid html if Google, Yahoo!, and MSN don’t even practice it themselves?”

So for me, if I have time, I will do the validation. It’s not too important for me.

One way to increase traffic is by submitting your feed to RSS directory. People who like your feed, might come to your blog. Go to this site and submit your blog to as many of these blog and RSS feed directories as possible. Some of them may not accept your Blog. This is going to take many hours, but the effort is well worth it.

• http://1800rssfeeds.com/submit-rss-feed.html
• http://2005lions.net/
• http://2rss.com/
• http://4guysfromrolla.aspin.com/func/addres/rss-review
• http://besttoread.com/rss.feeds.php
• http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp
• http://bloggingfusion.com
• http://blogstreet.com/bsibin/add.cgi
• http://chordata.info
• http://crayon.net/using/suggest.html
• http://dir.yahoo.com/rss/dir/index.php
• http://feedage.com
• http://feedbase.net/Add.php
• http://feedbees.com/add.php
• http://feedboy.com/addfeed.html?catid=
• http://feedcat.net/
• http://feedooyoo.com/ref.htm
• http://feedplex.com
• http://feeds4all.com/AddRSS.aspx
• http://feedsee.com/submit.html
• http://feedsfarm.com/a.html
• http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/
• http://findrss.net
• http://goldenfeed.com/AddFeed.aspx
• http://icerocket.com/c?p=addblog
• http://jordomedia.com/
• http://leighrss.com/
• http://millionrss.com/add-my-feed.php
• http://myxmlfeed.com/
• http://octora.com/add_rss.php
• http://plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
• http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php
• http://readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
• http://rss-network.com/
• http://rss-feeds-directory.com/
• http://rss-feeds-submission.com/
• http://rssbuffet.com/submit.php
• http://rssdirectory.com/
• http://rsshugger.com
• http://rssmob.com
• http://rssmotron.com/feed_submission.php
• http://rssmountain.com/submit_anonym.php
• http://sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
• http://solarwarp.net/submitrss.php
• http://syndic8.com/
• http://thefreedictionary.com/_/rss-directory.htm
• http://weblogalot.com/Ping/
• http://wilsdomain.com/submit-site.php
• http://xmeta.net/users/
• http://yourfeeds.com/Submit-RSS.aspx

Here are some tips on doing directory submissions:

• Find directory that have high PageRank.
• Find directory that gave you link. Check their source code. It should not contains “nofollow”tag.
• Use keyword on the link that is pointing to your website.
• If the directory has high PageRank, consider paying fee if you have the budget to get yourwebsite on their featured websites list. You will have instant backlink from high PageRank toyour website.

Here’s my top 50 directory:

• http://2-review.com/
• http://bloggingmix.com/
• http://777media.com/
• http://addsitelink.com/
• http://arakne-links.com/submit.php
• http://artninjas.com/
• http://blog-search.com/blog-submission.html
• http://bloggernity.com/
• http://bloglisting.net/
• http://blogrankings.com/
• http://blogs-collection.com
• http://busybits.com
• http://clickey.com/
• http://colormadera.com/
• http://directory-free.com
• http://directory-world.org/add-your-site
• http://directory.tm4b.com/add_url/
• http://dirgenius.com
• http://dmegs.com/
• http://dmoz.org
• http://dofollowblogs.com/
• http://favouritelink.com/suggest-listing.php?id=0
• http://feedmap.net/submit/
• http://findingblog.com
• http://frequentlyasked.info/suggest.php?action=addlink
• http://fybersearch.com/add-url.php
• http://gotowebguide.com/siteEkle.aspx?kid=0
• http://ibrain.org/addasite.php
• http://illumirate.com/
• http://info-listings.com
• http://infowebworld.com/submitasite.html
• http://kazancity.ru/en/add.php
• http://linkcentre.com/
• http://linkpls.com
• http://netinsert.com/
• http://onebigindex.com/submit.php
• http://portal.eatonweb.com
• http://quickblogdirectory.com
• http://search-o-rama.com/AddURL.asp
• http://searchsight.com/submit.htm
• http://smallwebsitehost.com/directory
• http://somuch.com/AddSite/
• http://stpt.com
• http://submitlinks.org/
• http://technorati.com
• http://uuiq.com/Submit.aspx?CategoryId=0
• http://webdirectory-submit.com/
• http://websitespromotiondirectory.com/
• http://worldsiteindex.com/
• http://zimbio.com/company/bloggers

Some people said that they can list their/your website in Google under 24 hour. This can be done easily. Index in Google means, our website is in Google’s database. You can find out by searching your domain name at Google. If you haven’t find any result, that means that the website is not in Google index.

You can add your website at Google by submitting it at http://www.Google.com/addurl.html.
This is Google’s actual website submission form. They state that you can use this form to submit your website to their index of websites and it can take up to 6 weeks for your website to be placed into their index. So how do you get listed in 24 hour?

You need to search website with high PageRank. Higher pagerank means, that they are visited by Google more often. Your website will be listed in Google more quickly, if the high PageRank website links to you.
Besides submitting it to Google, you should also submit to Yahoo, and MSN, the other two big search engine.You can easily submit to various search engine using SubmitExpress.com.