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Search Engine Submission Tips
Search Engine submission is an important factor that could help make your business succeed online. Before you start the process of submitting your web site to all the major search engines, make sure that you have optimized your web pages and checked your site thoroughly.
In this section we have made a list of all the major search engines which will drive approximately 80% of visitor traffic to your site. These are the search engines that you need to focus on getting listed in. We have given tips on submitting to these search engines and have provided links to their 'Add URL' pages.
Are you ready? Have fun. Work hard. Get ready for a lot of traffic!
AltaVista usually adds a page within a few days. It's best to submit
only a few URLs per day to them, even though they appear to accept as
many as you try to feed them. For whatever reason, they just don't seem
to index them as quickly if you give them a lot at once. All
you need to do is submit your URL.
Google is one of our personal favorites. It makes heavy use of link
popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. This can be especially
helpful in finding good sites in response to general searches such as
"cars" and "travel," because users across the web have in essence voted
for good sites by linking to them. The system works so well that Google
has gained widespread praise for its high relevancy. Google also provides
some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search. Submit only your homepage
URL. It will automatically index the entire site.
Excite claims it takes about two weeks to add a submitted URL to its
index. Sometimes, but not always. You'll need to be very persistent
with them. But take the time to do it, Excite is the primary search
service for the new giant AOL/Netscape.
Its main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary
results come from either Direct Hit or Lycos' own spider. Just follow
their simple instructions and don't expect immediate results from your
submission. Again, your best bet is to get indexed in the Open Directory
project.
Direct Hit is a company that works with other search engines to refine
their results. It does this by monitoring what users click on from the
results they see. Sites that get clicked on more than others rise higher
in Direct Hit's rankings. Thus, the service dubs itself a "popularity
engine". Follow their instructions and submit your site.
Enter your URL, e-mail, site name and site description to submit your
site.
Enter your URL, category and e-mail address to submit your site. The
Norwegian company behind FAST Search also powers some of the results
that appear at Lycos
Submit to Fast - All the web here
