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We have discussed at length how to prepare your site
for search engine submission using meta tags. Now that your site
is ready for submission, let us discuss various options and resources
available in the Net.
How to Register
There are mainly three ways you can submit your site
to search engines:
1. Manually submit sites to search engines
In this method, you visit a search engine, check its
submission guidelines, look for 'Add URL' button, click it and fill
out the submission form.
This is a tedious but very effective way of submitting
sites. Use this method to submit sites to major search engines (some
of which are listed below)
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.aol.com
http://www.deja.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.alltheweb.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.infoseek.com
http://www.looksmart.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.magellan.com
http://www.metacrawler.com
http://www.msn.com
http://www.northernlight.com
http://www.WhatUseek.com
http://www.webcrawler.com
http://www.yahoo.com
etc.
The Indian Search Engines are:
http://www.rediff.com
http://www.yahoo.co.in
http://www.123india.com
http://www.khoj.com
http://www.indiatimes.com
http://www.jadoo.com
etc.
2. Use Site Submission Service
There are many paid-for and few free sites that will
submit your site to search engines. Most such sites have two levels:
a free and a pay level. In free level you'll get 20 or so search
engines for free submission. If satisfied with the result, you may
opt for pay level to submit your site to thousands of search engines.
A few examples of such sites are:
Get Submitted
Free search engine submission site. One has to register as member
before using their services. Among very few sites who are still
providing totally free submission service.
Auto Submit
Allows free site submission to 20 sites.
Self Submit
Allows free site submission to 16 sites.
Add Me
Allows free submission to upto 20 search engines/directories
Submit-It
Payment-based search engine submission service
Submit Express
submits website URL to 40 top search engines for free.
U Submit
Registers website with 27 of the top Search Engines and 1354 Link
Listings on the Internet Free.
3. Search Engine Submission Software
This is a software to be installed in your PC. After
connecting to Internet, this software will send a robot or spider
to submit your site to selected search engines. This is a very handy
process if you are submitting many web-pages to large number of
search engines at regular intervals. A few examples of such software
are:
SoftSpider
Spider-based Search engine submission tool. Submits to 9,000+ promo
sites.
Submission-Spider
A suite of search engine submission tools.
TrafficSeeker
In addition to site submission, it has a built in scheduler, meta
tag creator, link popularity checker, Doorway page creator, FTP
Uploader etc.
Add Engine
IMPORTANT:
Above list of free or paid for sites/software is an
illustrative one. There are many more such products/ services. We
have not done any evaluation - please exercise usual precautions
before paying for a product or service.
Related Links:
Source: FAIDA
- Newsletter on Business Opportunties from India and Abroad
Vol: 2, Issue 30
January 3' 2002
Author :
Dr. Amit K. Chatterjee
(Amit worked in blue-chip Indian and MNCs for 15 years in various
capacities like Research and Information Analysis, Market Development,
MIS, R&D Information Systems etc. before starting his e-commerce
venture in 1997. The views expressed in this columns are of
his own. He may be reached at amit@infobanc.com
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