Overview and Quick Start Tutorial

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Now that you have successfully activated your GoingCentral™ Membership, you will be able to explore the different aspects of the services of this site. The purpose of this overview is to assist you in understanding how to use SubmitterCentral™ after logging in from your GoingCentral members desktop.

The SubmitterCentral™ submission process is project orientated, this means that for every submission job you setup for your own website(s) you simply create a new project, complete its configuration details, then step through the process of setting up the submission project.

Submission can be setup to be executed manually or automatically on a regular periodic basis that you select from a large variety of submission period options.

The stages you will go through for the submission process will be discussed in more depth as we proceed, however it is important to understand that there are several unique steps required while setting up a project for submission, whether automatic or manual submission.

Step 1. Completing the configuration for the Project.

Step 2. Confirming the configuration for the Project.

Step 3. Spidering the domain for urls to submit, (this can be your domain or an external domain).

Step 4. Selecting / Unselecting the Urls for addition to your submission queue.

Step 5. Editing or adding additional Urls to the submission queue.

Step 6. Selecting the search engines and FFAs list of sites that you wish to submit to.

We will now go through these different steps in more detail so that you understand each step.

Step 1. Completing the configuration for the Project.

You must now complete a few required fields of information :Some search engines around the world, require additional information, before they will accept your submission. These fields will cover all required information. This covers Website information, Personal and business contact information as well as desired attributes for the Project you are setting up.

Configuration Options.

Option 1 Project Name.

The first option, is your project name, here is where you would enter the name that you would like to call your project. It could be the name of a client who owns the website that you are submitting. If the submission project was for your site, you could enter a name that is easy to remind you that the details of that submission project for your website.  Please ensure that the project name is one word without any gaps.

WebSite Information

Option 2 Site URL .

Please enter the url / website address of the site you are about to submit for.This would start with a http:// For instance; The domain that you purchased this program from was website-submission-software.com  So in this field I would type in http://website-submission-software.com this is the main url of the site being submitted, not the actual url that is submitted, the urls to be submitted are in another section.

Option 3 Keywords.

Please enter key words that represent your business, or that of the business that you are submitting for. The keywords you choose should be highly relevant to your desired target audience, and words / phrases you consider might be used by potential clients, looking for products and services that you offer. The market that we are seeking to attract, are Webmasters, or people looking at starting their own Internet business. People who are looking for promotional tools. For example; Words and phrases we might enter into this field could include Submit, Submission Software, webmasters, affiliate resellers, promotion software, how can I promote my website, Web-site submission business opportunities, register my website with the search engines, site submission web promotion software...etc.

Option 4 Description.

Enter a brief description that describes your site and services; Or the services of the site you are promoting.For example: A description we might use for our site is "Web site promotion has never been so easy. ", "Market your web site with this amazing submission software.", "Start you own online submission service. This software does it all. "

Option 5 System Path to your web pages or html pages.

Your System path, is the path to your website, that would be recognized as the actual location of your web site, on the server where your Website is hosted. This information can be easily obtained from the company that hosts your web site. If need be, please email support  where ever your website is hosted, and ask them for the system path for your web site. I am sure they will only be too happy to help. You could also refer to the FAQ section, that most domain hosting providers have on their main web sites. If we have installed this software for you, this path has already been filled out for you. If by chance, you have moved to another provider, please contact your domain host for this information.The path would look similar to this example /home/www/yourdomain/public_html

Personal Information

Option 6 Your Name

Please enter your name, or the name of the person that owns the site, that you are submitting.

Option 7 Position

Please enter the position held by you, or the person that owns the site, that is being submitted.

Option 8 Your E-mail

Please enter your email address, or the email address of the person who owns the web site you are submitting.  The top email address is used to submit to the search engines and FFAs this should be a secondary email account so that your primary account doesn’t get flooded with unwanted email. The lower address is forrecieving your submission report.

Option 9 Company Information and Company Name

Please enter the name of your company, or the business name that you are know  by.

Option 10 Address

Please enter you business address;

Option 11 Address Line 2

Address line 2 is for extra address information if required;

Option 12 City

Please enter the city, in which your company is located.

Option 13 State

Please enter the state, in which your company is located.

Option 14 Country

Click on the drop down box, and choose the country in which you reside.

Option 15 Zip or Post Code

Please enter you Zip or post code;

Option 16 Phone Number

Enter your phone number;

Option 17 Fax Number

Enter your fax number.

Submission Options

Option 18   Automatic Submission and Frequency

This option allows you to set the project on autosubmission and set the frequency of that submission.

Option 19   Proxy

This feature is for the Webmaster that have a dedicated server running through a proxy host. Please leave this blank if you are unsure.

Option 20   Send Email Confirmation

Click this option, if you would like to receive your submission results via email. This is a good option to tick ‘yes’. Whatever email address that you have entered into your email option field, will receive confirmation of all submission results, when the submission process has been completed.

Once you have completed all the fields required just click the save button that is located at the bottom of the configuration page..

Step 2. Confirming the configuration for the Project.

Once your configuratiopn for a project has been completed you will be shown all your configuration details to ensure that they are all correct, once you are sure that all is correct then press the next button at the bottom of the page and your projects configuration will be saved to your projects directory.

Step 3. Spidering the domain for urls to submit, (this can be your domain or an external domain).

Spider Options

You should now have in front of you, the spider control console.This console has 4 main sections, which we explain step by step, what each option is for, and the functions of that option.

Spider Logical Structure

This section, is where you would enter the URL of the web site that you would like to spider. If you select this option, you must enter the full URL of the website, or you may enter an actual URL to a page that you might want to submit.The spider will follow all links found on that page, writing them to your submission database.Example: If I wanted to spider a clients site, I would enter their website Address, or as we may call it, their URL.

http://www.clientsdomain.com

If  I wanted to spider a paticular page on my clients Website I would just add their page to the Website address.

http://www.clientsdomain.com/therepage.html

You can select the type of pages that you would like to submit. Most website use the extention htm, html or shtml, but there are many platforms that people can and do use.If you are uncertain what web page extentions your clients use then get them to advise you when they signup for your service. If you are submitting your domain just use the full url of the main website http://www.yourdomain.com or if your wanting to submit a particular page and all associated links on that page enter the URL with that page..

Spider Physical Structure

This spider is in fact our directory Crawler The physical structure is for your actual domain or web site where your webpages are located. You will notice that instead of there being a URL there is in fact a server path, this path is the location of your website on the server which stores you pages. We have at the time of installing your copy of SubmitterCentral™ entered this path for you. If you choose this option you will not have to enter your path because it should already be there, if you have just moved to a new domain and are installing this softwae for the first time you will need to contact the system administrator or support section of the company that own the server, ask them for the system path to your domain.Im sure that they will be only to happy providing you with this information.

Maximal depth of directory.

This option allows you to choose how deep you would like to either spider a Website or Crawl you physical domain. If spidering your clients web site you would set this between 1 to 5 levels, this would instruct the spider to follow each link found to the maximun level you have entered.Example: If I was to set this to 3 then the spider would enter the web site being spidered gathering all URL's found on each page by 3 levels. Now say for instance that the URL being spidered had 2 links on the first page the spider would then copy the address of the 2 links then follow them both to the pages associated, on the next to pages say there were another 3 links on each page the spider gathers the URL address on those pages then again follow the 3 links found on each page to the 3rd level.

Maximal number of pages.

Just click on the drop down box and choose the amount of pages you would like to submit.Whether spidering your directory structure or a clients web site the number you choose here will be the maximum urls for submission.

Step 4. Selecting / Unselecting the Urls for addition to your submission queue.

The results from your spidering of your or your clients domain are then presented in a table where you can select or unselect any Urls from your Submission List.

Step 5. Editing or adding additional Urls to the submission queue.

At this stage you may manually add more URL's or edit any Urls that you need to change. Now that you are happy with the URL's that you have choosen click on the NEXT button at the bottom of the page. Once completing this step and pressing the next button your list of Urls will be written to your submission queue

Step 6. Selecting the search engines and FFAs that you wish to submit to.

Select The Search Engines For Your Submission

In the search engine selection panel just click on the search engine/FFAs that you wish to submit to.

Please Note: The regional engines will only accept submissions from Websites within the relevant regions, as is depicted by the Website Url suffix eg: .com.au  .com.uk  etc etc.

Activate Submission Process Now  

This option allows you to initiate a manual submission whereby you will see the resulting success or failure of the engines as they accept your submissions, this is handy for ascertaining whether any engines within the database are failing. With some servers that are very busy TIME OUT Errors can happen if this happens to your submission just click back to the engine database and unselect the engine / engines that are failing.

Save Configuration For Autosubmission 

By selecting this option (default) you will just be saving the configuration of the project, and that project will be submitted at the frequency that you have selected along with the autosubmission switch on the program configuration screen.

Once your submission is complete you will recieve an email notification, providing you ticked this switch on the project configuration screen, If you are doing extremely large submissions you may choose not to have a results email sent due to the size that the resulting email may be.

Once you have selected the search engines you would like to submit too click on the NEXT button in your browser window.

Submission Results

After your submission you will recieve a conformation email which will have the results of your submission, showing both successful submissions as well as unsuccessful submissions.

For a successful submission you will recieve a green tick along side your submitted Urls, any failed submissions will be represented by a red cross, will recieve this if the server you are submitting to is busy or when a server is updating their database and temporarily cancel the submission page.

If you have any additional questions, please click the Contact Page link from the sitemape or HERE and send us a note.

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The GoingCentral Support Team

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