Search Engine Tips:
Submitting to Search Engines and Directories is the most important part of SE marketing. If there are links to your site from other web sites, there is a chance of it being crawled by SE spiders without even submitting it to the engines. But the odds are that it will take a very long time and random pages will be indexed rather than primary pages.
Below is a list of Major Search Engines and Directories, and links to their ADD URL pages. As a rule of thumb, you should always submit to major engines by hand. When you use some automated submission services, thousands of urls are submitted from one IP address (usually the server the software interacts with and updates from). The search engine detects that this IP is submitting a large number of pages and tends to ignore it or even ban submissions from that location.
It is always safer, and more productive to take a few minutes to submit manually. It is usually ok to auto submit to minor engines, just make sure you are not submitting to the same engines twice.
Pay Per Click
Engines
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| Powers Galaxy.com, 37.com, CNET.com, and TurboFind.com as well as 10,000 other search enabled sites! | |
| According to independent traffic ranker Alexa.com, 7Search.com is the second most visited pay-per-placement search engine in the world. |
General Search Engines
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Rules of Thumb: Submit no more than 2 pages per domain per day that focus on different keywords to avoid spamdexing. Avoid submitting more than 30 pages per domain at any time. Follow the rules outlined by each engine carefully. |
| Updates
Yahoo! and Netscape default search. Wait 6-12 weeks for addition. |
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| Submit only 2 per domain per day. AltaVista will only accept 10 URLs per domain in a 24-hour period; if you submit more than 50 URLs in a 24-hour period, your domain will be removed from altogether. Submission code required for every 5 urls. Submitted pages take @ 2 weeks to appear. Automated submission not possible. See Other Ways to Submit | |
| Mostly updates Lycos. Rising search entity. | |
| Free
submission of one page of your web site. Registration Required Paid only via Lycos InSite! Affordable! |
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| Powers Inktomi / Looksmart | |
| Small Engine/WorldLight Network: Accepts submissions from Addme.com | |
| Open Directory Project * Important now for indexing of Netscape, HotBot, Lycos, Netscape, AOL, Google, and a host of smaller search engine directories. | |
| Required Site Registration - You can only Enter URL and Email | |
| Easy Add URL feature | |
| Very Important to submit primary domain. | |
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| Paid listings only for Business/Shopping/Services anything Commercial. 299$ Paid Inclusion Only | |
| Suggest pay for inclusion at PositionTech. | |
| Updates Excite, Altavista, MSN, iWon and other popular directory results. Paid Inclusion Only | |
| Powered
by Overture, Looksmart, DMOZ, and Infospace. No longer free submission. Paid Inclusion Only |
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| Inktomi/Lycos based - Submit only 2 per domain per day. 8-16 weeks for addition. NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. | |
| Not a lot of traffic but a classic engine. Look this engine to power larger ones in the future. NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. | |
| A popularity ranking service utilized by some search engines. Works with -new search engine Teoma. NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. | |
| AU NZ engine. Now Powered by Google- AU NZ engine. NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. | |
| Rising Google competitor. Acquired by Direct Hit. NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. | |
| Looksmart
Acquisition 3/2002 NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. |
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| MSN Adult Search | |
| Auto submission OK | |
| Required Site Registration | |
| Small Engine | |
| UK based banner-free engine. Accepts UK sites only. | |
| Florida Related Web Sites Only Please. |