Free
Search Engine Submission Advice
- By the SearchEngineOptimizationPromotion.com team
Before
you start doing search engine submission, double check your
website page-by-page for missing links. (A missing link is
a link that points to a nonexistent page.) They are also called
dead links. The search engines might think your site to be
"incomplete" and therefore push the rank farther
down.
Once
you are sure there aren't any missing links your website is
ready for free search engine submission.
You
will find many professional search engine submission service
providers on the Internet who claim they will submit your
site to thousands of search engines for free. They also claim
they will improve the link popularity of your site by putting
a link to your site in many websites. The free search engine
submissions service providers may submit your site using self
made unreliable automatic submission software which the search
engines hate. In fact they may panelize your site for being
submitted that way. Even if they do not, your site is unlikely
to get high rankings.
Manual
submission is always recommended!
The search engines want you to visit them and submit the site
manually.
Apart
from submitting your site to major search engines like Google,
Yahoo, MSN you should also submit your site to local search
engines and directories where ever possible. The Local and
the Meta search engines take the help of major search engines
to show their results, but if for certain keyword results
are not found they display results from their database.
Some
webmasters also submit their sits to FFAs. What are FFAs?
They are "Free For All" promotion
sites. If you have read somewhere that they will submit your
site to 6000+ sites for a low cost, what they mean is they
will submit your site to these FFAs.
FFAs have been in existence since around 1995.
These are pages with the sole purpose of listing links. Practically
anyone can post their ad on these pages for free. The problem
is there is no one to monitor the system. The result is junk
sites getting listed. The traffic you get from these sites
will be low and very poor in quality. Since you will need
to submit your email as well, these FFAs will bombard your
inbox will emails everyday.
Another
problem with submitting your site to FFAs is that there are
many who use their services. Since most of these FFA pages
have limits to the number of sites they can list at any point
of time, it implies that older sites are removed from these
pages as new sites are added.
This
means that when you submit your site to the FFA pages using
the free search engine submissions service, these FFA pages
will list your site for only a few days or even a day, but
will keep spamming your mailbox with junk mail for your life.
Its advisable to stay away from FFAs.
Every
search engine has its own rules and ways to spider the web
pages submitted to them. Some want you to submit only the
home page and some let you submit each and every page of your
site. We recommend you submit all your pages at least once
to the search engines. You should submit no more than 5 pages
a day. Once done the search engines will keep crawling your
site every 2-3 weeks.
We have listed below submission URL of major search engines,
you can use them to submit your website. Before you start
free search engine submissions go to the submit URLs of the
following search engines and research their current submission
policies. Then start submitting. For your convenience the
free search engine submission URL is given along with the
respective search engine. Note the list constitutes of MAJOR
SEARCH ENGINES only.
- Google
Submission URL: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
- HotBot
Submission URL: http://insite.lycos.com/searchservices/lite_step1.asp
Also note that HotBot takes its results from Inktomi.
In order to register your site with HotBot, you should submit
your site to Inktomi
using its paid inclusion service. We recommend that you
use Inktomi's paid inclusion service because it has become
very difficult to get listed in Inktomi without paying.
- Fast
Submission URL: http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
Other
search engines? It's not necessary to submit to any other
engines. WHY?
- AOL
It takes its results from Google.
In order to register your site with AOL, you should submit
your site to Google.
- MSN
You are listed automatically in MSN's Search Engine when
you submit to Inktomi.
Use Inktomi's paid inclusion service because it has become
very difficult to get listed in Inktomi without paying.
- Netscape
You are listed automatically in Netscape's Search Engine
when you submit to Inktomi.
Also, Netscape uses Google
as a secondary Search Engine. To get registered in Netscape
submit your site to Google and Inktomi.
- WebCrawler
You are listed automatically in WebCrawler when you submit
to Excite.
- IWon
IWon takes its results from Google.
In order to register your site with IWon, you should submit
your site to Google.
- Lycos
In US nobody cares for Lycos anymore, but Lycos UK is still
popular.
Lycos is fed by Alltheweb
(FAST) who are still taking and spidering free submissions
at their add URL page. To get listed in Lycos submit to
FAST.
Note:
Once your site is submitted there's a lag before your
pages actually show up in search results. First it will
be "spidered" by the search engines. It means
the search engines will take a snapshot of all your pages.
New sites are dumped in a different database. They do
not show up in the results for at least 5-6 months.
We recommend you submit your site to the major
directories too. One of these directories "Yahoo"
can bring you very targeted traffic.
Some
of the major directories where you should try to get listed
are:
Yahoo!
Open
Directory
There
is difference between submitting a site to the search
engines and the directories. The directories rank a site
on the basis of the Title and the Description of the site
that were submitted while the site was being registered.
The directories often have human editors who decide whether
your site is worth including in their directory or not.
Whereas the search engines send a program (software also
called as Robot)
to visit the site and decide its worth.
You
can find information on submission to major search engine
directory here. You will learn how to submit your
website to major directories like Yahoo and Open Directory.
We are highly experienced in SEO/SEM/Pay Per Click Management.
Please contact us regarding
any query you may have.
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