Get Your Website Listed In Search EnginesBy Garnet R. ChaneyLast update: October 2003You've read my article on website promotion, and you would like some quick ideas on where to submit your website? I've listed the search engine submission pages of the biggest search engines for you here. You can submit your own site for free. Search engine submission is the process of making search engines aware that your website exists. To see if the major search engines already know about your site, go to them and type in a search phrase like www.YOURDOMAIN.com, (for example www.garnetchaney.com), or the name of your website "My Sleep Center"). If you don't see your website listed, then maybe you need to "submit your site" to the search engines. When you submit your site to the search engines like Google, or AllTheWeb, just enter the URL of your home page. Eventually an automatic robot, or web spider, will visit your site to read your home page. It will add the words on your home page to it's index. Later it will come back and read the pages that are mentioned in the links on your web pages, and eventually, by following links, it will visit all the pages on your site. So unlike the olden days, when you had to submit every page of your site individually, now you do not have to do that. Modern search engines will automatically discover all the pages of your site that are linked to with normal URLs. You may have heard of several services around the net that promise to submit your site for free to 250,000 search engines. In general these sites are just a scam to collect your email address. Most of the sites they "submit" your site to are FFA sites, or "free for all" sites that are filled with single line links to all kinds of websites. These FFA sites generally get very little traffic, and the search engines have been programmed to ignore them. There is some rumor that submitting your site to one of these FFA sites might actually damage the "electronic opinion" that is calculated for your site when the search engines add your site to their index. In general most of the search engine traffic you get will come from the search engines on my list below. Here is my short list of the top websites to submit your site to: Free places to submit your site Hint: If you would like to find more places to submit your site, go to Google and search for "submit site" and "add your url".Paid places to submit your site - MSN - Uses Looksmart sitelistings.
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