Increase 'visibility' of your Merchant Shipping Related web site.

The very dependence of maritime business on internet makes it the strongest medium of communication and information so far as the shipping industry is concerned.

The benefit of having a web site for your business lies in its availability to the visitors searching for services it offers. What ever your business is, it needs exposure due to global nature of maritime and marine transportation industry.

Your site has to be easy to find on the web and in search engines queries. Services you offer need to be available to a vessel arriving at the port of call, a manager looking for services should be able to find you.

Search engine spiders follow hyperlinks when crawling the internet. A site linked to other quality sites of similar content is crawled frequently and gets listed faster in the search engines.

Presence of strong back links, where the other sites has a hyperlink to your site, is the best technique for getting listed in the search engines and directories. Manual submissions may be made to directories related to your business.

Let’s see what shipping related businesses we are talking about, the very long list may include the following:

• A Ship chandler,
• A shipping agency,
• Deal in cargo chartering and brokerage,
• Deal in ship sale and purchase,
• Associated with ship demolition industry,
• A shipping company,
• A bunkering company,A crewing agency,
• A marine lawyer,
• A marine stevedoring company,

• Running a ship repair work shop,A marine contractor,

The list is endless!

Following services offered on PakistaniMaritime.Com may help increase the visibility of your web site on the WWW:

• PakistaniMaritime Site Ring - Increases visibility of a site by linking sites of same trade together.
  
• PakistaniMaritime Web Site Awards - The winner sites are listed in the award winners list consisting of quality maritime shipping related resources.
  
• PakistaniMaritime Links Page - Submit your site to merchant shipping related resources page.

I highly recommend excellent free lessons offered on this subject at SEO Training Class - Ethical Search Engine Optimization Classes to optimize your site for search engines.

Same is true about Resume Sites of Mariners and other merchant shipping employees.