Top 10 Search Engines, Submission URLs
From current statistics and testing, here are the current top search engines delivering organic traffic. In addition, below, I’ve supplied submission URLs.
Remember, when submitting to search engines, make sure:
- Have a valid email address. The better known and trusted the email provider, the better.
- Only submit your home page URL once you want your website to be crawled by a search engine spider. It may take minutes or weeks for your website to be crawled.
- Be patient, and do not resubmit in efforts to trick search engines. Only resubmit if you haven’t been listed and it has been two months that you have waited.
- Remember you will not appear at the top of search engines instantly. You need to prove your website over time to websites and people. There are a huge number of relevant items you can do to increase the chances of your website moving up on the Internet. These items all will improve rankings, conversion rate, and stickiness. To learn more, visit this website every few days as I will post helpful information twice per week.
Top search engines and submission URLs
- Google
http://www.google.com/addurl/ - Yahoo
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/ - Ask
http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18 - AOL
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html (results from DMOZ are pulled into AOL and others) - MSN
http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx - Live
same as #5 - Alexa
http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters - Netscape
http://wp.netscape.com/escapes/search/addsite.html (leads to DMOZ) - AlltheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com/help/webmaster/submit_site - AltaVista
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/default (leads to Yahoo)
Important to Note
- There are thousands of search engines. The top ten listed above will include the majority of searches, but many other search engines are worth submissions.
- Submitting to search engines doesn’t do a lot. It only makes sure that if you have a good website, you have more chances of being indexed and found if you have a well done website.
- Once you are indexed on a search engine, you may be on page 100 of listings where you are not found by people often. To move up to the top of page one of search engine listings, you need to consistently market and build up your website. There are thousands of ways to do this.
