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Open Directory Project
Getting Your Site Into Portals and Search Engines Using ODP Data (used by AOL and others)
If your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, DirectHit, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc. We make updates of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own update schedule.
http://DMOZ.org/add.html
Alta Vista
Keywords: Only the first two occurrences are indexed, use the and top of the page.
Location of Keywords: Top of the page, <H1>, <H2> etc. tags. Document Length: Longer pages favored 600-900 words. HTML Title: Most important keywords here, 300 characters, short titles preferred.
Meta Tags: Not very important, but should be used just in case.
Themes: Yes, consistent keywords throughout the site.
Considered Spam: Repetition of keywords one after the other, meta refresh tags, invisible text, identical pages, excessive submission.
Other Info.: Repeat keywords in files names. Use keywords in text links.
http://addurl.AltaVista.com
Ask Jeeves
Send e-Mail URL and description to
url@askjeeves.com.
Hotbot
Keywords: Frequency and weight in the body are most important.
Location of Keywords: URL text and title. Document Length: Short, 100-250 words. HTML Title: Most important, keywords here, up to 105 characters.
Meta Tags: Very important, both description (150 character) and keywords (75 characters).
Themes: Yes, consistent keywords throughout the site.
Considered Spam: Repetition of keywords one after the other, meta refresh tags, nearly identical pages, invisible text, irrelevant keywords, too many submissions.
(At this time, Lycos does not have a website submission form for Lycos Search or HotBot).
Lycos
Keywords: Keywords spread throughout the page and the title.
Location of Keywords: Top of the page, tags. Document Length: Short, 100-250 words. HTML Title: Keywords here, second word, up to 1129 characters.
Meta Tags: Not indexed by Fast, but shows up in top rankings. Themes: Yes, consistent keywords throughout the site.
Considered Spam: Repetition of keywords on after the other, nearly identical pages, invisible text. Other Info.: Not recommended Use ALT tag.
(At this time, Lycos does not have a website submission form for Lycos Search or HotBot).
MSNBot/Bing
Submit at: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
Yahoo
Submit at: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
For Individual Fee Based Search Engine Listings:
Yahoo
Yahoo is the oldest directory on the web, launched in 1994. It made a giant shift to using the Google crawler-based listings in October, 2002, to organize web sites into categories, but it is still a separate force even though it is powered by Google because Yahoo enhances listings with information from its own directory. Yahoo offers Category links that lead to a list of sites that have been reviewed and approved by a human editor. It purchased the Inktomi in April 2003, so Inktomi search results may appear at Yahoo. Being listed in the Yahoo directory may help your ranking in Google, which may in turn help you in Yahoo itself. You can view the Yahoo directory at: http://dir.yahoo.com. Yahoo has two submission options: Standard, (free - but do not submit commercial sites), and Yahoo Express with is (fee-based). However, Yahoo does not accept Standard, free, submission for commercial sites.
Yahoo guarantees that within seven business days a member of the Yahoo editorial staff will look at your site and consider it for inclusion in the Yahoo directory. Payment does not automatically guarantee inclusion in the directory, site placement, or site commentary. Final judgement remains solely with Yahoo editors. The fee for this was $299 but check for price changes.
You can see if you are listed on a Yahoo directory by going to Yahoo and enteringr your domanin name in the Search field, then, under the field that displays your URL, click on Directory. You domain name will appear in a directory if your are listed. If you are not, a message will appear that says – We did not find any Directory pages containing yourdomain.com - . http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?+Business
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