So you have put in your metatags, created a catchy TITLE, worked on the content and you think your website is ready for search engine submission.

Before you submit your website, do a check by following the steps below to make sure your website is indeed ready for search engine submission.

1. Make sure you have a robots.txt file running on the server to make sure robots can process your site. If you need more info on what a robots.txt file is and what it looks like, visit The Web Server Administrator's Guide to the Robots Exclusion Protocol.
2. Check your HTML code. Make sure your code is clean with no errors and no extra closing tags.
3. Check proper use of title, meta tag description and meta keyword tags, analyse the competition and see what keywords they are using. Type in a keyword phrase related to your own website in one of the major search engines and see who comes ahead of you. Look at the source code of your competitors website and compare with your own work. What keywords do they use in their title and metatags. Do keywords appear in the content at the top of the page?
4. Check proper use of IMG ALT tag. Have you put some text relevant to the page in the ALT attribute?
5. Do a Keyword Density Analysis. There are tools out there that can help you with keyword density analysis. Check out search engine optimisation tips or the Cool Tools section.
6. Check for broken links. The Cool Tools section also has a few ideas for checking for broken links.
7. Ask your hosting provider questions about server setup. Is your website being hosted virtually or does it have its own dedicated IP? Virtual hosting means your website is sharing an IP address with many other websites. If one of those other websites gets blacklisted or receives a lot of traffic, your website may encounter problems, as search engines may have a hard time finding your website, or may not be able to spider it at all.