Google
Submission URL: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
How long does it take to index a page? 2-3 months aprox
Submission Limit per Day: 10 pages
Submit all of your important pages to Google. However, with Google's unique way of indexing, your links should be picked up by this engine with no problems. But, why take a chance - submit your important pages. You can submit up to 10 URLs to Google a day and be safe.
With Google’s supplying Yahoo!'s supplemental index, submitting to Google has become very important.
With Google, be sure to have other sites link to your Google pages, or those pages may not be picked up in the index.
To check to see if your pages are in the index, search for your domain name like this: www.yourdomainname.com
Then, click on "Find web pages that contain the term." From there, you can choose "Search within results" to narrow down the search to particular pages.
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AltaVista
Submission URL: http://add-url.altavista.com/cgi-bin/newurl?
How long does it take to index a page? a few days with Express Inclusion, their pay inclusion program; 6 weeks through their free Add URL page.
Submission Limit per Day: through free Add URL: 5 pages or more
With AltaVista, rely on the use of links to get the pages in your site indexed. Unless you've made significant changes to your pages, don't resubmit them. Instead, let AV's spider find those changes during its next spider run.
Try submitting your pages using "www" and not using it in the URLs.
To check to see if your pages are in the index, enter your URL in the search box like this:
url:yourdomain.com (reveals every page under the root domain)
url:members.prodigy.com/yourwebsite/ (narrows the search to pages within your site, if you're under someone else's domain)
url:members.aol.com/yourwebsite/yourwebpage.htm (finds a specific page at your site)
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HotBot / Inktomi Engines
Note: Your best bet for submitting to the Inktomi engines is to go through their pay inclusion program. For more information, visit: http://www.positiontech.com/. If you don't want to pay to submit, your next best bet is to submit to Inktomi through Anzwers.com.
Submission URL: http://www.anzwers.com.au/cgi-bin/print_addurl.pl?
How long does it take to index a page? 2 weeks if not through their pay inclusion program; 48 hours if through pay inclusion
Submission Limit per Day: 50 pages
As you know, Inktomi supplies results to HotBot, GoTo, MSN Search, and many more search services. To get your site into the Inktomi engine faster, try submitting to Anzwers.com instead of through HotBot, or again, through their pay inclusion program.
Be sure to submit all important pages of your site to HotBot. Try submitting the same page using different variations of the page. For example:
http://www.HereIAm.com
http://HereIAm.com
http://www.HereIAm.com/index.html
You may find that your sites using the "www" are ranked slightly higher than those without the "www."
To check to see if your pages are in the index, use their Check URL form: http://hotbot.lycos.com/help/checkurl.asp
Or, visit HotBot's main page and choose the "Advanced Search" button, which is on the left-hand side of the page. The SuperSearch page will appear.
Find the Location/Domain box toward the middle of the page, and enter your domain without the "http://www" prefix in the domain box. You can choose other variables, such as the page depth and the number of search results you'll be shown. Click on Search.
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Lycos / FAST
Submission URL -- Lycos: http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html
Submission URL -- FAST: http://alltheweb.com/add_url.php3
How long does it take to index a page? 20-40 days (in FAST)
Submission Limit per Day: 50 pages
With both Lycos and FAST, you can safety submit all of your important pages, even though both engines are “deep crawlers” and should find the links on their own.
Try omitting the "www" when submitting your pages to Lycos.
To check to see if your pages are in the index, search for your root domain, such as: mysite.com
Some of your pages will usually be listed. If not, search again, but leave off any suffixes, such as ".com" or ".edu" like this: mysite
In Conclusion
When submitting to the search engines, play it safe. Don't submit over and over again, and look at each engine's submission guidelines carefully. If you're going to err, err on the side of being conservative.
Don't trick them. Give them content, content and more content.
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Top 10 Search Engine Tips
1)Many directories list websites in alphabetical order (Yahoo). When submitting to a directory or designing your title, make the title start with the letter 'A' or some other letter low in the alphabet. Be sure that it make sense to who is searching and remember your keywords.
2) Watch how close you submit your site for resubmission time? Delete all cookies off your computer and reconnect to your ISP.
3) Be careful not to over submit. Submit no more than 3-5 pages per site to a search engine on the same day. When submitting pages from several sites, it can be an extra precaution to clear cookies and/or reboot in between submissions. Reconnect to your internet provider whether it is dial up or otherwise (Rebooting will do this).
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5) When hand submitting to the smaller engines, set up an 'off-main' e-mail account to catch the spam which is likely to follow your submission.
6) Whenever possible, opt for hand submission over bulk submission programs. Many of the 'search engines' bulk submission programs that claim to submit your site to 1000+ search engines are actually submitting to lists - not search engines or directories.
7) Don't waste your time submitting to FFA (Free For All) listings. Your sites usually only stays listed for 24-48 hours and then dropped.
8) Try not to repeat a keyword in your Meta Tags more than three times. Go over five times and you may be asking for trouble. Also, omitting commas may help you form more phrases.
9) Review the html page code of competitors websites who rank higher than you to see how they did it. Be creative and find your own words that will rank well.
10) When a news story breaks that will generate significant web interest, quickly develop a keyword rich and optimized page dealing specifically with the subject matter of interest. The site should contain links to other sites that provide information on the subject. Submit the site to the engines that index quickly for a fee. (AltaVista). Add your banner ad to this new page you have created or some text which says, "This information gladly provided to you by Your Website Name" and a link to your homepage.
Article by:
Anne Laidlaw
Profitable Keywords 2004 GOOGLE Software
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