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Search engines are an important part of marketing your web
site. Below you will find helpful tips and links to help you
submit your web site. Please read through this entire page...
it will be time well spent!
These sites will open in their own window.
To return to this page, close the window containing the search
engine site.
Yahoo Before listing your site on yahoo do some research.
Be sure to find the appropriate category for your site (find
local will sometimes get your site listed better)
Google
Just submit the URL and short comment. Google spiders the web
about once per month so your listing may take a month to appear
in their index.
Excite You will find the submit
a site link at the bottom of the page. Excite offers
two types of paid submissions: *Express
Submit for $199.00 (your site is reviewed within 2 business
days) and **Basic Submit for $99.00 (your site is
reviewed in approximately 8 weeks).
Alta Vista
Go to submit a site (located at the bottom of the page).
Alta Vista also offers *express submit but, if you
scroll down the page you will find that they have a free listing
opportunity as well.
HotBot Submit web site appears
mid-page on the left side.
Lycos After submitting to Lycos
keep checking back. You may have to submit your site
more then once to get it indexed. The link to add your
site is towards the bottom of the page.
MSN
You will find the add your web site link about 3/4 of the
way down the page in the center. When you get to the proper
page you find that MSN also uses *Express
Submit and **Basic Submit. If you scroll
down the page you will find a way to add your site for free,
but read about it and you will understand the importance of
paying for submission here.
Northern Light The register
your URL link appears mid page under "FYI User Information".
Web Crawler Another Excite
engine using *Express Submit and
**Basic Submit.
AOL Search AOL Search draws from
DMOZ Open Directory Project. You will find the add URL link
at the top of the page. Follow the directions on the "How
to add a site to the Open Directory" page. Here is what they
say about their directory: "Once your site has been accepted
into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks
to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites
which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, AltaVista,
HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc. We make updates
of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own
update schedule."
Inkotomi
Search Submit Inkotomi is large directory which many
search engines draw their results from. This service is offered
by Network Solutions. It is a paid submission, but very reasonable.
Check it out.
Goto.com This search site can
give you quick results. At Goto.com you bid for your ranking,
so nothing is left to chance. To find out more about it, click
on "List Sites and Products" at the bottom of the page.
*Express Submit for $199.00 (your site is reviewed within 2
business days)
* * Basic Submit for $99.00 (your site is reviewed in approximately
8 weeks).
About Express Submit and
Basic Submit:
"Your site will be listed in the LookSmart Network
of partner sites including Excite, AltaVista, MSN, iWon, CNN,
Time Warner, and over 370 ISPs. Excite and the LookSmart Network
reach four out of five US Internet users - that's 64 million
potential new customers!"
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