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Tips: Submissions to search engines.
Getting listed and improving your listing with
search engines is part art and part science and can take time and effort with no
guarantees. We are available to help in part or
whole to help you with promoting your website.
Listing your website on search engines can be
labor intensive. Perhaps the best approach is to apply resources to editing
the pages you are submitting to make them 'tasty' to the search engines, use
automated software to send to hundreds of search
engines in hopes that many will list for free, and then follow up by manually
submitting your website pages to search engines you feel are most likely used by
potential customers.
Note the following
information may have changed since publishing.
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are welcome to e-mail recommended changes to this page. This information is
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various sources, from which there can be no warranty or responsibility by
Cocoa Village Publishing as to the legality, completeness and accuracy. Cocoa
Village Publishing assumes no responsibility for this information.
Automated Submissions:
Thousands of websites with link compilations, search engines, exist.
Manually submitting to thousands of websites would be labor intensive.
Many of those are infrequently used, but are free to submit to and accept
automated submissions. In this situation the optimum solution may be to
purchase or lease software or automated services to bulk submit your website
pages to many search engines. The efficiency of the process may be low,
but the larger numbers of submissions for your labor and costs can make up for
it.
Some Examples:
Exploit Submission Wizard
note: windows based software that allows user to submit with
their own computer and internet connection. note the software requires a
subscription, lease, to effectively use.
site: http://www.submissions.com/wizard/index.html
Submit-in-an-Instant
note: "Submissions Online offer two levels of service, the free
'Submit Lite' service and the 'Full Submission' service. Our full submission
service costs"
site: http://www.submit-in-an-instant.com/loadform.cgi?A=submissions
Information relevant to manual submission of web pages to search engines:
Spiders - Automated Search through your
website:
Most search engines provide an online submission form to
add your Web site to their search engine or directory. They usually ask you to
fill in several form fields for your site including the URL, title, description,
and keywords. Note that a lot of search
engines now request or require payment to reduce time and improve
submission chances. The submissions may not be guaranteed even with additional
payments.
When filling out the requested information a good rule of
thumb is to submit the same descriptive information to each search engine you
add your site to. The best way to do this is to use the contents of the meta
tags created for your web page that you are submitting.
Google
note: The best search engine on the Internet In our humble
opinion.
site advanced search page: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
site add page: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
MORE SEARCH ENGINES:
http://www.cocoavillagepublishing.com/marketing/
website_promotion/submissions/tips/more_searchengines.html
Directories; you have to find your category:
It's pretty much essential to submit to the Open
Directory Project and if economically feasible the others. You should only need to do it once, but you may need to pay
something or volunteer effort to expedite. The directory web sites
usually require you to find or recommend a category page for your site and from there click
to request adding your url.
Open Directory Project
http://www.dmoz.org
Sites Using ODP Data" search on:
All the Web - AltaVista - Deja - Google - HotBot - Lycos - Northern Light
- Yahoo
Note you may see the following significant notice
after submission to dmoz: "Once your site has been accepted
into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several
months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open
Directory data, such as AOL Search, AltaVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos,
Netscape Search, etc. We make updates of the data available weekly, but
each partner has their own update schedule."
MORE DIRECTORIES:
http://www.cocoavillagepublishing.com/marketing/
website_promotion/submissions/tips/more_directories.html
Search for Search Engines:
Search engines, sometimes called link compilations, keep changing.
Thus a need for search engines of search engines:
SEACH ENGINE COLOSSUS
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF SEARCH ENGINES: "Search Engine
Colossus offers you links to search engines from 202 countries around the
world! Conduct exhaustive web searches. Search the web using your choice of
language. Locate your new favourite search engines. Make your own website
submissions..."
META SEARCH ENGINES:
Like the real world, the internet has parasitic and symbiotic
relationships. There are search engines that take the results from
other search engines and redisplay with their own advertising. Generally
you can not submit your url to a meta search engine, rather you submit to the
sites they meta search from. Some examples:
Metacrawler.com
site: http://www.metacrawler.com/
note: Searches the major search engines, throws out the duplicates and
summarizes the
Dogpile.com
site: www.dogpile.com
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