| Major Search Engines Submission |
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| Google (http://www.google.com)- Often called the greatest search engine on the Internet, it is also the most popular according to recent Nielson/NetRaitings polls. This search engine is entirely free for the primary listings, and offers paid listings at the top of the search results, as well as their AdWords program which shows small text banners on the right hand side of the search results. Google bases its search results on website content as well as their patented PageRank algorithm which factors in links from other websites to determining your rank in the search results. l and your website should be in the index within a month, sometimes two. |
| Submit to google at http://www.google.com/addurl.htm |
| Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) - Second most popular, and probably the most famous of all search engines, this icon among web portals controls the search results on MSN.com, AltaVista.com, and Alltheweb.com in addition to its own search results. Submission is free, and I wouldn't recommend paying for inclusion in this directory at this time, though paying to be in the directory is a good idea if you can afford the $300/year. |
| Submit to yahoo at :http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request |
| MSN.com (http://www.msn.com) - The third most popular search engine, MSN, does not currently provide its own search results. The results found on MSN are actually provided by Yahoo!, and you can be listed in MSN by submitting through Yahoo! at the link above. MSN does plan to offer their own search results in the future, and I believe that they are using the old Inktomi index as their starting point so you might want to submit here: |
| Submit to mns at http://free.submit-it.com/msnsubmit.htm |
| AOL (http://www.aol.com) - This popular search engine uses Google search results as its primary and paid listings. See Google. |
| AllTheWeb (http://www.alltheweb.com) - Purchased by Yahoo!, this once promising search engine now uses Yahoo! results and will probably be used as a side project by Yahoo! for various purposes. |
| AltaVista (http://www.altavista.com) - One of the oldest search engines on the Internet, AltaVista was showing its age until Yahoo! purchased it in 2004. It now uses Yahoo! results and is basically just another portal for Yahoo!. |
| AskJeeves / Teoma.com (http://www.ask.com and http://www.Teoma.com) - The Teoma index powers both the popular Ask.com website and its sister site Teoma.com. You can only get into this index through being found by the Teoma Crawler, or via paid Inclusion which you can order |
