Search Engine Submission

This page is designed to help you understand the relationship between the leading search engines and directories. We have tried to keep this page short and to the point, especially since some of our site focuses heavily on Search Engine Tools and Search Engine Optimisation techniques.

The things to remember are that you must have suitable URL content AND be engineered to beat your competition with the various engines before you register with these engines. Just registering with an engine does not assure a suitable ranking. It is vital that your site be found in all of the major engines, not just in one engine.

Each section allows for a search of your keywords or site name, then provides a link to their ADD URL page. There is also a brief description of what a search engine looks for in determining ranking. Personally, what search engines look for is their secret sauce, and is very private. But the major characteristics are well "suspected" and the basis for most SEO practices.

This page focuses on hand submission links, techniques, and tools. Hand submission is effective and not too expensive if you limit your hand submissions to the major search engines. But beyond these few sites the return on investment quickly decreases (takes too much time thus becomes too expensive) and you must use an automated tool.

This page is a part of a MUCH larger site discussing Web Site Placement and offering FREE advice on how to get more visitors to your site. It is recommended that you visit our HOME page and browse the entire site.

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Search Engines and Directories Submission

Click below to reach instructions and hints for submitting a site to the search engines: AltaVista      alltheweb      AOL      Ask      dmoz Open Directory Project      Excite      Fast      Go      Google      Hot Bot      Inktomi      iWon      LookSmart      Lycos      MSN      Netscape      Overture      Teoma      Webcrawler      Yahoo! Directory Want to see how the search engines and directories relate to each other? View our Search Engine Relationship Chart ®. This is a 290k PDF suitable for color printing! And the links are all active.