Search Engine Submission for Your Website

If you have a web-based business or a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then submitting to a search engine is the best way to advertise and market. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio advertisement, banner advertisement, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, though they may be effective in a small proportion.

Be wary of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines, as these are empty promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it manually by contacting search engine companies and directories.

Before you begin submitting your website to search engines, make sure it is professionally designed with the right key words, good graphics and pictures, and relevant content. Incomplete websites should not be submitted. When submitting to a search engine, make sure to include information about your website, keywords, and any other relevant information, such as your company’s name and contact information.

Simply submitting your website to search engine companies does not guarantee that it will be listed and ranked highly. Because there are thousands of new websites launched every day, it may take some time for them to take your site up for review by human editors. One important thing to remember when submitting your site is to include a site map so that web robots can easily crawl it.

Submissions without sitemaps are rarely considered by search engines such as ‘http://www.google.com.’
Many online businesses provide search engine submission services. You can do it yourself using a software package and service such as this one:

http://www.webposition.com/order/trial.asp?

WT.mc id=google%3A%7Bifsearch%3Asearch%7D%7Bifcontent%3Acontent%7D%3A%7Bcreative%7D%3Atrial%3A%7Bkeyword%7D&WT.srch=1

Alternatively, if you require professional assistance, visit the following websites:

http://www.addpro.com/professional submission

http://www.submitawebsite.com/aboutus.html

Avoid using automatic submission services.

Here is a list of the most well-known search engines and directory services:

Search Engines
AltaVista Go.com/InfoSeek
HotBot, Google
Excite/Webcrawler

Directories
Inktomi AOL Search
Open Directory by Lycos
MSN and Yahoo!
Snap LookSmart

Aside from the ones listed above, there are thousands of search engines and directory companies where you can submit your website to as many as you want. The following links provide information about other search engines and directories:

http://websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/blsearchenginesatoz.htm

http://websearch.about.com/library/tableofcontents/blsearchenginetableofcontents.htm

Search Engine Submission for Your Website