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How to Submit your site to the Major Search Engines.

Below is some basic information on how to submit a site to search engines. This includes some of what we do when optimizing your site for the web. We include this information here in case it is helpful for you. As always, if you would like a full optimization treatment of your site, you may contact us for information.

Free Search Engine Listings:
Google

The most important crawler based search engine may be Google. Many other search engines like Yahoo and AOL Search are powered by Google. The best way to raise your listing with Google is to have links to your web site from other sites, this is your "link popularity." If your site becomes listed on one or more major directory, Google will almost certainly include your site in their listings.
Keywords: weight and proximity matter most.
Location of Keywords: you can add <title> Keywords here, up to 90 characters, header tags (<h1>, <h2> etc.) function as keywords, as can bold text.
Meta Tags: Google has never recognized meta tags.
Themes: These can be used with consistency consistent keywords throughout the site.
Considered Spam: Use of link farms, cloaking, excessive repetition.

Aside from link building, Google provides an Add URL page that lets you submit your domain name directly to its crawler. There is no guarantee that Google will actually include a URL submitted in this way, however. Nonetheless, it makes send to submit your home page and perhaps one or two the URLs from inside your site via the Add URL page that they have at:

 www.Googe.com/addurl.html


All The Web:

Search results on AlltheWeb are provided by Yahoo!. They provide an avenue to be included in the Yahoo search engine.

 http://SearchMarketing.yahoo.com/...
 
 


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.
(Use Lycos to Submit, see below:)


Lycos/Fast (both Free and Fee-based listings)

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.

 http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html or
http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp or
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php


MSN Search

Submit to Inktomi through one of its partners


Yahoo

Find an appropriate category and submit to it at: http://www.lycos.co.uk/inc/foot/addasite.html


Fee Based Search Engine Listings:
Yahoo

Yahoo is the oldest directory on the web, launched in 1994. Yahoo made a giant shift to using the Google crawler-based listings in October, 2002, to organize web sites into categories. Yet, Yahoo is still worth using even though it is powered by Google because Yahoo enhances Google listings with information from its own directory. Also, Yahoo still offers Categories links that lead to a list of sites that have been reviewed and approved by a human editor. Yahoo also purchased the Inktomi search engine in April 2003, so Inktomi results may appear at Yahoo, and being listed in the Yahoo directory may help you get included and rank better 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, which is free, 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. Free for this service is $299.

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


Google

Pay per click options let you pay as you receive:

 http://services.google.com/marketing/links/US-HA-CMBNINE2/
http://www.goclick.com/?AID=112940


All The Web

Search results on AlltheWeb are provided by Yahoo!. For fast submission to the Yahoo! They have s Search index via the Overture Site Matchtm program. They also allow you bid on keywords and your business appears in search results on the Web's premier sites, attracting buying customers looking for precisely what you sell. We can also choose to submit many more of your pages through the program, and the fees are less than for your first page.

 http://www.alltheweb.com/help/webmaster/submit_site


Lycos/Fast (both Free and Fee-based listings)

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. What Is Spam?: Repetition of keywords on after the other, nearly identical pages, invisible text. Other Info.: Not recommended Use ALT tag.


Inktomi

Inktomi is an important crawler-based search engine because it provides backup results to the popular MSN Search. It was also recently purchased y Yahoo, so it may be providing results to Yahoo in the near future. Since it is a crawler based engine, building links is the best way to get listed for free. However, Inktomi has no free Add URL page. However, if you have links pointing at your site, you may get included naturally. What if you are not picked up for free? submit via one of their partners. Inktomi pas a paid inclusion program that will guarantee to add the pages you submit within two days and continue to revisit it on a regular basis for a year. The fee for this is $39 for there Search Submit function. This service involves interacting with software. Should you decide to list with Inktomi, I would do this for you and pay the fee $39 myself, program you in, and bill the $39 to you.


Teoma

http://www.websitepromotionsoft.com/submit-listing/teoma.html (Paid program only)


Wisenut

http://www.wisenut.com/submit.html


Ask Jeeves

Fast track submitting your website to the top search engines with our automated submission wizard. This wizard only takes a few minutes to download and install and includes the top search engines including international versions with markets focusing in Autralia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States.

 http://www.submitcorner.com/Guide/SE/askjeeves.shtml


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Sincerely - The Elves
 
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