Search engines

• Webpages and electronic documents
• Training and presentation

Introduction to search engines

Enable web users to find your site more easily by submitting its homepage URL to the university's search engine, ultraseek.

If your primary audience is outside the university, consider registering your site with external search engines and directories. Contact the Media and Publication Services Office for more information on paid search engine registration.

After registering your site, search for it. Looking at your search results will reveal whether you need to conduct search engine optimisation so that your site ranks higher in search results.

Webpages and electronic documents

If you have any suggestions or comments about the following links, please contact us.

• Search engine optimisation - Web Centre guidelines on getting your site included in search engine results.
• Hiding your web pages from search engines - guidelines on how to mask your web pages from search engines.
• University search engine - Campus Wide Information Service (CWIS) details and links for the university search engine.
• Add URL (Ultraseek server) - How to add the URL of your site to the university search engine, Ultraseek.
• Search Engine Watch - Comprehensive overview of how search engines and directories work. Includes search engine listings, reviews, ratings and submission tips.
• Google webmaster guidelines - Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site, which is the best way to ensure you'll be included in Google's results.
• Yahoo directory - A human-created and maintained directory of websites organised into categories and subcategories.

Training and presentations

• Training course - University metadata: what, why & how helps staff enter appropriate metadata into webpages. Correct metadata aids search engine ranking for webpages. See web training for more information about Web Centre courses.