Ten
Places You Must Submit Your Site
Author:
Jim Daniels
(Seven
still-free listings and three worth paying for.)
This tutorial will not promise you a top search engine position.
It will also not reveal how to get your site into thousands of
search engines.
Instead, you will discover the exact locations where you can
submit your website for free and the few "paid submissions" that
are actually worth the price.
Yes, there ARE still places where you can submit your website
for free. There are actually seven extremely busy search engines
that have not (not yet anyway) migrated to requiring payment for
listings.
Here's a listing of these engines along with the URLs where you
can add your site(s) for free:
1. Lycos Add URL: http://home.lycos.com/addasite.html (No more available)
2. Google Add URL: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
3. HotBot Add URL: http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp (No more available)
4. Northern Light Add URL:
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html (No more available)
5. DMOZ - The Open Directory Project Add URL:
http://dmoz.org/add.html
6. Direct Hit - An Ask Jeeves Service Add URL:
http://sitesubmit.ask.com/
7. Fast - (Formerly "All the Web")
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3
Those seven search engines above have been responsible for
sending literally thousands of visitors to my website over the
past year. And they will send thousands more. And perhaps the
best part is that I didn't have to pay them a dime.
But that's not to say that paying for a listing in a search
engine is a bad thing. Sure, lots of "purists" have been bashing
the search engines' move to charging for listings. But let's
face it, they are in business to make money too. And advertising
revenue is not what it used to be for many of these companies.
Their CPM (cost per 1000 banner impressions) rate has dropped
significantly and they need other revenue sources. So why not
charge businesses for a listing?
Now as a small business owner you cannot go around and start
paying every search engine that wants a hundred bucks or more
just for the privilege of listing your site (or just considering
it!) So you have to concentrate your budget on just the search
engines that can deliver serious website traffic. Those are the
engines, or networks of engines with the most traffic themselves.
After researching the field, I've narrowed this down to just
three that are undoubtedly worth the price. They are...
8. Yahoo! Business Express http://help.yahoo.com/help/bizex/
Currently $199 for non-adult sites, Yahoo! still has the busiest
directory by far and you'll get lots of traffic from a decent
listing.
9. The Looksmart Network's Express Submit
http://submit.looksmart.com/
Also $199, this network powers over 1/2 million websites
including AltaVista, CNN, Excite, iWon, Microsoft Network,
Netscape Netcenter, NetZero and WebCrawler.
10. Inktomi's Search/Submit service www.networksolutions.com/catalog/searchsubmit/welcome.jhtml
(Not available any more)
At just $30 a year for the first URL and $15 for each
additional, this is a cheaper solution to the Looksmart Network
submission. Inktomi powers searches through AOL, iWon, MSN and
the Looksmart directory itself. The best part is that the
network updates every 48 hours so you get your listing in
quickly.
OK, there you have it. A quick, cut to the chase, search engine
submission guide. Just be sure that before you submit your site
to ANY search engine or network that your site is ready to be
listed favorably. This means adding targeted keywords to your
content, META tags and title as well as spell checking and
browser checking your site. Once you are sure everything is set
to go, visit those 10 URLs and submit your site!
About the
author:
Tutorial by Jim Daniels of http://www.bizweb2000.com
Jim's new, no-hype, step-by-step Guide to Making a Living from the Internet is
at http://www.make-a-living-online.com
Read Jim's free web-based guide and discover how you could make your living
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