Major Search Engines
 How
often have you received and email offering to "Submit
your website to 85 bazillion search engines for only $29.95/mth!"
or some such offer? The fact of the matter is this: most of the
major search engines consider automated submissions a form of spam
and while they won't penalize your site for it, they will discard
the submission without hesitation. Another significant consideration
can be answered by a question, "which search engine do you
use?" If you are like the vast majority of people you will
have answered Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL or one of about 10 different
search engines. With well over 95% of all searches being conducted
on the top 15 engines (some of which are PPC engines)
do you really need to have your site listed on the other thousands
and thousands out there, and is it worth the risk of not being listed
on one of the major engines to get listed on the smaller ones that
may or may not bring you a couple visitors a month?
As a rule of thumb, submit manually, submit to all the major search
engines and monitor those engines to see if your site is indexed
(listed with the search engine). Once it's listed don't resubmit.
Submitting your site multiple times to a search engines
does not improve your chances of positioning well. It's
essentially like telling you where the corner store is. At first
it may be helpful but once you know where it is, being reminded
frequently just gets annoying.
Below you will find links to articles on search engine submissions
and also a list of the major search engines you should submit your
website to along with links directly to their "Add URL"
pages.
Articles On Search Engine Submissions:
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Major Search Engines And Their Add
URL Pages
Please note: The percentage totals come to more
than 100%. This is due to people's use of multiple search engines
when they were unable to find the information that they were looking
for on the first engine. Data accurate as of June 2004 based on
Neilson/Netratings.
| Market |
Search Engine |
Add URL |
Note |
| 41.6% |
Google |
Add
URL |
Easy and free. By far the most important of all the search
engines to submit to |
| 31.5% |
Yahoo |
Add
URL |
They have a few submission options. You will have to choose
free or paid depending on your budget and what you hope to accomplish. |
| 27.4% |
MSN |
Add
URL |
The Add URL goes to their paid submission Add URL page. They
get their natural listings from Inktomi which is owned by Yahoo.
A submission to Yahoo should get you indexed naturally. |
| 13.6% |
AOL |
Add
URL |
AOL gets their main results from Google so submitting there
is all you really need to do. |
| 7.0% |
Ask Jeeves |
Add
URL |
You will need to be a member and note that there are fees
for submissions. |
| 3.7% |
Lycos |
Add
URL |
Paid submission through Insite. |
| 3.0% |
Netscape |
Add
URL |
They get their main listings from Google. Once again, a submission
to Google is the most effective submission you can do for you
website traffic. |
| 2.7% |
AltaVista |
Add
URL |
AltaVista's main listings are powered by Yahoo helping make
Yahoo a close second in exposure and importance. |
Also See:
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