Free Searchengine Submissions
There are several search engines that allow you to submit URLs for free. You can indeed drive good traffic to your site with free searchengine submissions. The downside is that it will take 4 to 8 weeks before your site begins to show up in these search engine results.
Google - more time is spent doing Google searches than at any other site. You only have to submit the URL of your home page and Google will "crawl" your whole site and index every page it can find! However, it can take several visits over a number of weeks to find all your pages and include them in its database. Google has lost some of its luster lately, unfortunately, as Yahoo recently dropped Google's listings from the Yahoo web search results. Google continues to provide the listings for web searches at AOL. 4 out of 4 stars - Click here to submit your site to Google.
Yahoo Search - with free registration, you can submit your site for free inclusion into Yahoo's search results. It is well worth your submitting your site to Yahoo, given the potential traffic you can generate. Yahoo remains the second most popular search engine, and Yahoo's web sites are the most visited set of Internet sites. It will take a few weeks for Yahoo's robot to crawl your site, and then include you in the published results. 3 out of 4 stars - Click here to submit to Yahoo Search.
MSN Search - although this service is still in Beta mode, it is an excellent idea to get your site entered into the MSN database for when it goes live. MSN is a hugely popular destination site, and the new MSN search features should drive considerable traffic to pages that rank high in the search results. Fortunately, you can submit your site for free. The MSN bot will crawl your site and should, over time, end up indexing all your pages. 3 out of 4 stars - Click here to submit to MSN Search.
The Open Directory Project is something that many people haven't heard of, but it is a powerful force behind some well known search sites. The starting place is the DMOZ Directory, and you must find the right section of the directory for your web site. Then click on "submit a site" and you will be taken to the form to fill in. The ODP is run by volunteer editors, who screen every submission. If your site is accepted, and many are not, then you will be added to the directory that is used by Netscape, AOL, HotBot and more. Learn more about submitting to DMOZ. 2 out of 4 stars
For a head start in getting your website into the smaller search engines, try MetMechanic's free service and submit your URL to:
- Lycos/Fast
- ExactSeek
- Voila
- Eule.de
- Power Search
- 4AnyThing
- A2ZSolutions
- EntireWeb
- Findinfo.com
- Fireball
- JaydeOnline
- LinkMania
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