Submit your website to the search engines

It is best to submit your site to the search engines by hand rather than using a submission service. Be sure to read the "Terms" for each one and submit your site. This will help you get the hits that your site needs for free. In about a month, you will start to see the traffic build. The thing to remember is that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within the search engines before you register your pages. Just registering with the search engines does not assure a suitable ranking.

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DMOZ (Open Directory Project) - Search - Submit

  • Do not submit mirror sites
  • Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory
  • Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites
  • Do not submit any site with an address that redirects to another address
  • The Open Directory has a policy against the inclusion of sites with illegal content
  • Do not submit sites "under construction, contain broken graphics or links
  • Don't submit sites consisting largely of affiliate links
  • Be sure your site isn't already listed on dmoz.org
  • Submit a site to the single most relevant category.  Sites submitted to inappropriate or unrelated categories may be rejected or removed. Go directly to that category on dmoz.org and then click "add URL."  Follow the instructions on the submission form carefully.  Descriptions of sites should describe the content of the site concisely and accurately.  They should not be promotional in nature. Submitting a promotional description rather than an objective, well written description may significantly delay your site from being listed or prevent your site from being listed at all
  • Because this is volunteer-based editing and inclusion it can take up to 8 weeks (of late, almost ALWAYS 6 or more months) to get listed in The Open Directory. Once there, it may take additional time for the listing to be used by sites using ODP data. You may be rejected by the category editor without explanation, or simply ignored, but a common cause is that you may not offer unique content to the topic. The thing to remember is that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within The Open Directory before you register your pages. Just registering with The Open Directory does not assure a suitable ranking

Google - Search - Submit

  • Please enter your full URL, including the http:// prefix
  • You may also add comments or keywords that describe the content of your page. These are used only for our information and do not affect how your page is indexed or used by Google
  • Only the top-level page from a host is necessary; you do not need to submit each individual page. Our crawler, Googlebot, will be able to find the rest
  • Google updates its index on a regular basis, so updated or outdated link submissions are not necessary. Dead links will 'fade out' of our index on our next crawl when we update our entire index
  • Basically, Google's position is that we prefer no hidden links, no hidden text, no automatic tools used for positioning, and no cloaking. We prefer that Googlebot get the exact same page that users see. In general, you can assume that we're as conservative as possible. We don't like hidden links/text in divs/layers/iframes/css, or links that are inconspicuous or punctuation, for example. Similarly, we don't like cloaking or sneaky redirects in any form, whether it be user agent/ip-based, or redirects through javascript, meta refreshes, 301/302's, or 100% frames." More details are available at: Guidelines and SEO Issues.

Overture - Search - Submit (Pay-per-click)

  • Advertise only to customers who are already interested in your products or services
  • Pay only when users click through to your site
  • Set your own cost-per-click
  • To appear on Overture, you must first open an account and deposit money (credit card accepted). Once you have an account, fill out the Overture Simple Signup form. In the form, you should bid on the keyword phrases where you want your site to be listed. Also, specify a title (max 40 characters) and a description (max 190 characters). Your title and description can vary for each keyword, even if linked to the same page. Remember that the keywords that you bid on must be related to your linked page. To be listed below the paid listing section (free listings), you should submit your site to Inktomi

Inktomi - Search - Submit 

  • Inktomi considers spam to be pages created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results." More details are available at: Spam Policy and Guidelines. Report spam: reportspam@inktomi.com
  • Submission Times - Initially, it can take up to 4 weeks to get spidered into the Inktomi database. Inktomi will respider every page in its database on a monthly basis.

Looksmart - Search - Submit 

  • Free listings through Zeal. Zeal is an increasingly important part of the LookSmart Network, offering free listings to noncommercial and not-for-profit Web sites. If this is you, go here http://zeal.com/
  • LookSmart is different from other paid advertising services by selling paid listings to commercial sites with no guarantee of success. The small business program, LookListings Small Business, lets you get one URL per web site listed with LookSmart. You pay a one-time $49 review fee, like a credit review process determining whether you will be accepted or rejected (5 day period). When accepted, you are changed $0.15 for each click that you receive from your LookSmart listing at any Looksmart or partner site that carries its listings. There is an additional $15 per month minimum billing charge equal to 100 clicks
  • Before submitting your site to Looksmart, you should first scan the Looksmart directory to find the most appropriate category. Second, you should make sure your title and description does not exceed 35 and 145 characters respectively. After this, you can then proceed to fill out the form and submit your site. Looksmart will contact you by email about your submission

Alltheweb - Search - Submit 

  • Submitted sites will be scheduled for addition to AlltheWeb.com. We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear. For more information, please see the Webmasters FAQ.

Lycos - Search - Submit 

  • Lycos receives their web results from a variety of sources. The results from the "Popular" section of Lycos comes primarily from the Lycos web editors. In the "Web Sites" section, results come from the Open Directory, Fast Search (All the Web), and the Lycos web crawler. The Open Directory powers the category links at the top of the "Web Sites" section, and also provides some web site matches. Below the category links are web site links, which come primarily from Fast Search. Secondary links are provided by the Lycos web crawler
  • Although it is not as significant in the results rankings as it used to be, the Lycos web crawler is still spidering the web. The Lycos web crawler does not weigh META tags heavily. Indexing is based on an algorithm that takes a look at components of the URL name, Meta title, text body headings and subheadings, how frequently words appear, where these words appear in relationship to one another, as well as a document abstract (based on full body text). Any web page that does not have a minimum of 75 words is not indexed but Frames are supported. Lycos does not care about case sensitivity. They will not allow special characters in text, so avoid ?, =, and $. Pages are added in 3 to 6 weeks

MSN - Search - Submit 

  • The top search results are generally in Looksmart sequence. Since Looksmart is a PPC (pay-per-click) directory, if your account balance falls to $0 your ranking in this section of MSN will vanish. This means that the rankings in MSN are not stable on a day-to-day basis and that you should consider paying into the Looksmart program
  • Your site must be in English
  • Your site cannot contain pornography, pornographic or adult advertising, gratuitous or graphic violence, material that infringes on or violates someone's rights, or material that promotes/disseminates illegal activities
  • Your site cannot mirror or redirect to another Web site
  • Your site should be optimized before you submit. Read our search engine optimization tips to make sure your site is ready for submission

Altavista - Search - Submit 

  • AltaVista is a search engine that uses many sources to produce its results. These sources include the Open Directory, Real Names, and its own web-crawling spider. After submitting a search phase to AltaVista, the user, by default, is given AltaVista's web page matches, which are produced by AltaVista's web page index
  • AltaVista no longer spiders full sites using links between pages. You must submit the specific page you want indexed or it will not be located and indexed
  • Results are presented in the following sequence: 1) featured (doubleclick ad), 2) Overture (2 entries), and 3) its own index
  • URLs will be considered for inclusion into the AltaVista search results in 4-6 weeks
  • URLs that return a 404 error will be removed from the search results
  • Submission of your URL does not guarantee inclusion into the AltaVista search results
  • Once you correctly submit your first URL, you will be able to submit up to 4 more URLs

  • In order to maintain the integrity of the search index, we must sometimes exclude submissions that manipulate search results. Examples of such manipulation include, but are not limited to, the following:

    • Pages with text that is not easily read, either because it is too small or is obscured by the background of the page
    • Pages with off-topic or excessive keywords
    • Pages that duplicate content, either by excessive submission of the same page, submitting the same pages from multiple domains, or submitting the same content from multiple hosts
    • Pages that are machine-generated with minimal or no content, whose sole purpose is to get a user to click to another page
    • Pages that contain only links to other pages
    • Pages of which the primary intent is to redirect users to another page
    • Pages that violate a court order or otherwise are required to be removed by a court or governmental regulatory body
  • Attempts to fill AltaVista's index with misleading or promotional pages lower the value of the index for everyone. We do not allow URL submissions from customers who spam the index and will exclude all such pages from the index

AskJeeves - Search - Submit (Paid)

  • The service includes a Fast 7 day, inclusion into the database powering the US based versions of ask.com and teoma.com, Web Page will be refreshed every 7 days, URL (Web Page) stays included in this powerful database for 12 months, and Click-thru reporting (showing how many visitors have hit your web page), URL submission begins at $30.00 per URL, two to 1000 is $18.00

AOL - Search - Submit

  • Find the most appropriate category or subcategory within the AOL Directory
  • From that category page, submit your site information from the Submit a Site link in the green Open Directory Project box at the bottom of the page
  • All our user-submitted Web content is maintained by the Open Directory Project

Yahoo - Search - Submit 

  • The Yahoo! Directory is organized by placing related materials in subject categories. Sites are evaluated by Yahoo! editors, who visit and evaluate user suggestions and decide where the sites belong
  • Sites have been declined by Yahoo where there is not sufficient unique content on the pages submitted
  • This first step is important, because if your site is already listed in the Yahoo! Directory, you need go no further. You can check by searching on your URL and clicking on the "Directory" option in the navigation bar located below the search box. If your site appears in the "Directory Site Matches" on the resulting page, you are listed in the Yahoo! Directory
  • If your site is already listed in the Yahoo! Directory but you want to change its comments, title, and/or placement, you need to use the change form. This is an entirely different process
  • Yahoo! editors visit each site suggested via Yahoo! Express, and proper categorization on your part helps us process and review your suggestions quickly
  • Once you've found the most appropriate category for your site, you are ready to suggest it. Just click on the "Suggest a Site" link on the top right of the category page
  • In the "category" space on the form, you'll see the name of the category you've chosen. Please be prepared to provide, among other information, your site's title, URL, and a brief description

Fast - Search - Submit To Alltheweb

  • Fast adds information into its database via AlltheWeb.com
  • Using techniques to artificially influence a search engine's precision or relevancy is prohibited." More details are available at: Webmasters FAQ

Teoma - Search - Submit to Ask Jeeves

  • Teoma will guarantee to include your pages if you use its Ask Jeeves Site Submit paid inclusion program which allows your new pages to be listed in a week

Hotbot - Search - Submit to Lycos

  • To rank well in HotBot you should you use keywords in the title and meta tags, use a high frequency of keywords in the body, and use longer documents. The index comes from Inktomi, so please see that the same criterion is followed. Inktomi is a crawling spider technology and thus any submission will lead to a full site being indexed

Iwon - Search - Submit to Google

  • Iwon does not maintain its own database. To have your site be listed on IWon, you should submit your site directly to Google (Adwords - $$ PPC), and Google (Free)
  • See Google for more details

Netscape - Search - Submit to Google or DMOZ

  • Netscape receives it primary search results from Google. The sponsored section is provided by Google. The Open Directory provides the results for Netscape's "Web Sites Categories" and "Reviewed Web Sites." If the Open Directory provides the "Reviewed Web Sites" section, you can still view Google results by simply clicking on the "Search Again using Google" link in the left hand column. You can no longer submit your site to Netscape. To be listed on Netscape, you must submit your site to Google or the Open Directory

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