Here are some rules and tips that can help you submit your site to the major search engines and google search.

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1) Don't submit your site to hundreds or even thousands of engines.

You've probably seen a lot of special promotional offers to submit your site to hundreds or even thousands of free search engines and google search. A common mistake on the Web is perceiving that "more is better," and that submitting to thousands of "engines" will attract a lot of traffic to your site.

In fact, the majority of those so called "free search engines" are not engines at all. Instead, they are simply a list of links to the last fifty or so URLs that were submitted to the service. Nobody ever uses these lists to find anything because they are just random lists of Web sites, generally with no organization.

The primary purpose of these FFA (Free For All) sites is to collect email addresses from people like you so they can send you junk mail. The realistic outcome of those "free search engines" is not more traffic to your Web site, but to your email box. Your address will be disbursed to hundreds of hungry bulk email companies and this is probably not what you want.

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In addition, having your site listed on FFA pages doesn't improve your link popularity. Most FFA pages can contain only the last 50 to 100 links. Older submissions get pushed off the list as new ones come in.

Since thousands of people use the same service, you'll often get bumped off an FFA page within hours of your submission. This doesn't give the real free search engines and google search much of a chance to find your FFA link, particularly when they often take weeks just to index a page after it's been submitted.

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The reality is that only the top search engines like google search and directories are going to bring you any traffic...

Collection of all the free search engines and directories that account for about 95% of your traffic:

(The term "Free Search Engines and Directories" is used in contrary to Pay Per Click Search Engines. In fact, some of them offer paid inclusion services, but you have a chance to get listed for free - see comments below)

• AlltheWeb
  A SE that displays results from Yahoo!.

• AltaVista
  A SE that displays results from Yahoo! and Open Directory.

• AOL Search
  A SE that displays results from Google and Open Directory.

• Google Search
  The most popular SE. Google makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank Web sites.

• IWon
  A SE that displays results from Google and Open Directory.

• Lycos
  A SE that displays results from Yahoo!, LookSmart and Open Directory.

• LookSmart
  A directory that uses paid inclusion program based on a pay per click model.

• Bing
  A popular SE that displays its own results.

• Netscape
  A SE that displays results from Google and Open Directory.

• Open Directory
  Not very popular directory for finding information. Instead, its importance lies in the fact that it provides the results for search engines. Google also gives a lot of emphasis on sites being listed in the Open Directory.

• Yahoo!
  The most popular and powerful search engine (Yahoo! Search) and Web directory.

• Ask
  A popular SE that displays its own results.

Collection of all the free search engines and directories that you should submit your site to:

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Free search engines - links to the "Add URL" pages...

• Google Search

• MSN

• Yahoo! Search
  Yahoo! offers both free submission and paid inclusion. The free submission program doesn't guarantee when, how often and how deep your site will be indexed. The paid inclusion program guarantees inclusion in the index, frequent refresh, quality review and consultation.
  URLs added by a free crawl and via paid inclusion are ranked by the same criteria: keyword-specific relevance and site quality.

Directories - links to the "How to Submit" pages, since there is no direct way to submit your site to directories...

• Open Directory

• Yahoo!

• LookSmart (paid inclusion)
  You may try to get into LookSmart for free through Zeal, the noncommercial component of the LookSmart Network.

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2) Don't trust the search engine submissions to automated programs and services. SEs don't like these services. So, you should submit your site manually or use a submission service or software that completely mimics a common browser. There are a lot of automatic search engine submission services on the Net. But you should look upon them with suspicion. Search engines don't like these services and may ignore or at least "red-flag" automated submissions. Many free website submission services even fail to look for a "success" message after the submission is made. So, just to be on the safe side, you should submit your site manually or use a submission service or software that completely mimics a common browser. Here's a safe, quick, and free website submission service. It can help you submit your site to the major search engines and directories that account for about 95% of your traffic.

 

Instant search engine submission

Fill in the form, check the search engines that you want to submit your site to, and click the Submit! button. Your browser will show you search engines' confirmation pages, each in a separate window. Don't forget to verify that all the search engine submissions were accepted, some engines may require an email confirmation or other additional actions. Full URL E-mail   Entireweb ExactSeek Google

 

Other search engines and directories

You can't instantly submit your site to the below search engines and directories. Check the desired search engines and directories, and click the Go! button. Search Engines   MSN tyBit Yahoo! Search* Your browser will show you search engines' "Add URL" pages, each in a separate window. Fill in the forms and submit them in each window. Directories   Open Directory Yahoo! LookSmart** Zeal There is no direct way to submit your site to these directories. So, if you check them, the browser will show you the pages describing how to submit your site to the corresponding directories.

* Yahoo! offers both free submission and paid inclusion. The free submission program (requires registration) doesn't guarantee when, how often and how deep your site will be indexed. The paid inclusion program guarantees inclusion in the index, frequent refresh, quality review and consultation.
URLs added by a free crawl and via paid inclusion are ranked by the same criteria: keyword-specific relevance and site quality.

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** This is a paid inclusion service based on a pay per click model. You may try to get into LookSmart for free through Zeal, the noncommercial component of the LookSmart Network.

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I hope this free website submission service will save you a lot of time and attract a lot of traffic to your site.

3) When you enter your URL for submission to google search and other search engines and directories, make sure you type in the whole address, including appropriate prefix (i.e., http://) and a trailing slash ("/") if the URL doesn't include a file name (e.g., http://www.Domain.com/).

4) Many SEs and google search give a higher ranking to pages they find on their own versus pages that were specifically submitted to them. From this point of view, you should submit the top two or three pages that best summarize your Web site (for example, home page and table of contents), and let search engines find the other pages from your Web site by following links from top pages. However, some SEs take a long time to spider the internal pages if only the top pages are submitted. By submitting all the internal pages in your site you can speed up the process of search engine submissions.

5) Don't exceed the recommended limits of submissions per day for the same domain. Otherwise, you may find that all your submissions are ignored. Some consultants feel it's dangerous to submit more than one page a day to an engine or google search for a given Web site.

6) After a page has been included into the index, unless you make significant changes to the page or it's dropped from the index, don't submit this page to google search again. If you've made significant changes to a page, resubmit it, but no sooner than a few weeks since your last submission.

7) Work hard on building link popularity of your site. For example, while Google might spider it, your site won't be added to the database until someone else links to it. If you're in a big hurry, buy a second domain and put some unique content on it and cross-link your two sites.

8) Sometimes the search engine submissions can be lost at random through technical errors and bugs. For example, if you're indexed and a spider visits when your site is down, you can be removed from the index. Therefore, it pays to monitor your search engine rankings carefully.

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The Google search engine (URL: www.google.com) launched in September 1999 is now the largest and most popular search engine by far on the internet. This is largely due to the top quality of Google's Page Rank Technology which is based on link analysis (link popularity and link quality) and content analysis(relevance+freshness of content and location+frequency of keywords). Google search crawls the web and maintains a huge index of cached pages (the largest among the search engines), that is updated often (approximately every 2 days) to show the freshness of its results.

Google is our top search engine but we also use other key players like Yahoo!, MSN, Ask Jeeves, Altavista and Teoma, as each search engine adds its own spice. You can rely on Google search to give you the best resultant links with the content that you are looking for. This is due to Googlers who aggressively stick to their Quality value - There is no paid inclusion into the main results which is absolutely free and depends on the quality of your site - and to the Freshness of their main results.

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Submitting your site to Google is very easy and absolutely free. All you need to do is submit your home page URL to Google and your whole site will be indexed. Click to Submit your site to Google Search  (Please note that for a new site Google Search can take upto 3-6 months to improve your ranking after it initially indexes it, so instead of worrying about why your ranking is low, you can use this time to optimize and promote your website).

Getting Listed in Google Search

Google uses a "crawler or spider" - robots that automatically index pages on the web - called GoogleBot. Google search usually takes an average of 6-8 weeks to index a newly submitted site. When you submit your site URL to Google, GoogleBot pick's up and goes through each link on each page. It reads through all your site pages to pick up keywords, then saves and indexes the pages in its catalog cache. Thus it is important for you to keep all your pages linking to each other so that the google spiders have easy access to all your relevant pages. Another way to make sure this is done is to have a Site Map for all you pages.

Very Important: Getting indexed by GoogleBot is just the first step to getting ranked in Google, so don't expect immediate results for your pages to show up in searches. Give it some time and work on optimizing your web pages.

Why is getting listed with Google Search Important?

Not only is Google the single most important search engine, it is also used to provide the "main results" for various other search engines. As of now (August 2004), AOL Search, Netscape (two of the top 10 search engines) and the Excite Network (at iWon, MyWay, My Web Search) use Google for their main results. Google also provides its "Paid Results Ads" to search engines like HotBot, Lycos, Ask Jeeves and Teoma apart from AOL Search & Netscape.

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Getting a high ranked in Google Search is different from being indexed by the Google Spider - GoogleBot. You might have been indexed by Google but your site might be one of hundreds of thousands in connection with your keywords and you might not appear in the first 10 pages (beyond which you can safely assume no one will seriously search).

This is mainly because Google looks at the quality of the web pages linking to each site to obtain the most relevant search results. Thus more than link popularity, link quality is what matters to Google Search. In fact this is the single best way to get ranked with all "crawler" based search engines. Build your site links by promoting your site pages to as many relevant portals that accept external links - especially those with top ranking in Google. You can also get into link exchanges with top sites in google that have a good ranking (provided you keep a track of these sites in case they do more harm than good). Google gives a different rank for each of your pages so it is important to optimize your whole web site.

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You need to also make sure you have valuable content for Google searchers. What you can do is, concentrate on keywords (or rather key phrases) that is unique to your content. This will also ensure that you get more targeted visitors from Google.

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In this section we have made a list of all the major search engines.

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.

Submit to Altavista here

 
Google Search 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.

Submit to Google here

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.

Submit to Excite here

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.

Submit to Lycos here

Enter your URL, e-mail, site name and site description to submit your site.

Submit to MSN here

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

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