Are you afraid of spiders? Well you shouldn’t be. As it relates to the web, spiders are the text-craved robots deployed by search engines. They spread across the internet visiting millions of web pages in search of relevant terms, helping to determine a site’s ranking in the search engines.

What They Want

When a spider comes to your site, its after one thing – text. Since they can only view the final results generated in an HTML file, spiders cannot comprehend flash content or even static images. This is why your web pages should rich with keywords. Your articles, landing page, production descriptions, links, title tags and metadata should contain relevant text. When your site is properly optimized, the search engine spiders will come crawling, eagerly gobbling up the content and storing your pages in the database.

On the web, spiders are your best friend. Give them what they want and they will return the favor by helping your site gain more exposure.

Getting people to your site is all about the links to your sites, this collection of 40 places to promote your articles is a great way to get some traffic.

The folks over at ThemeForest have a great post for getting your site noticed.

Some great tips, if your just starting up or have been around for a while.