URL Submission to Search Engines

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Getting indexed in the Internet search engine is very important
if you want everybody to know the existence of your web site.
Imagine, the Internet is like the earth, and you web site is
like a shop on earth. Unfortunately, unlike the real world, your
shop is not visible; nobody’s shop is visible. It is only
visible after we enter the shop. So how would anybody know about
your shop? In order to let everybody knows the existence of your
invisible shop, you have to tell eveybody about your shop’s
address.

In the early of 1996, I have developed a homepage, which I
dedicated to a kind of music I really like. The homepage is
hosted on Geocities(home of the longest URLs’ homepage
repository) free hosting service at that time. It is almost
impossible for anybody to visit my site by accident because of
the long URL. I tried to let everybody know the existence of my
homepage, send emails, sign guestbooks, join forums, but I
forgot( or I did not know that we have to submit our URL to) the
search engines. The homepage got very few visitors, until I gave
up and just let it be. And now, for your information, the
homepage still exist, but I have already forgot the password. I
do not know how many visitors it got per day now because the web
counter service is also missing.

However, submit your web site’s URL to the search engine is not
enough to start getting visitor. It will take about two month
for your site to be indexed in the search engine. You also need
other plan or strategy to promote your web site. This article is
only about getting indexed in the search engine. Here is some
links to add your web site’s URL to the Internet search engine
or public directory.

Dmoz.org, The Open Directory Project To be indexed in this
directory is the priority. It is the key to be indexed and to
get a high rank in other search engines. There are thousands of
search engines available in the Internet today. Many of them
such as Google, Altavista, Yahoo and Netscape get the listing
from dmoz.org.

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive
human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and
maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The
Open Directory was founded in the spirit of the Open Source
movement, and is the only major directory that is 100% free.
There is not, nor will there ever be, a cost to submit a site to
the directory, and/or to use the directory’s data.

Here is the link to submit your web site’s URL to dmoz.org :

http://dmoz.org/add.html

Google.com I personally think, Google is the best search engine.
Every day I use google.com to search any information from the
Internet. You could find the information from website,
newsgroup, images and directory in one search. Although other
search engine have the same feature, but Google’s website is so
simple. Another advantage is Google also feed about 80 other
search engines. 60% of my previous website’s visitors came from
Google. Here is the link to submit your web site’s URL to Google
: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Yahoo.com – Altavista.com, AllTheWeb.com The second search
engine I like most is Yahoo. Actually, Yahoo is a directory
based search engine. Altavista and AllTheweb’s search index also
powered by Yahoo. So, if your web site is indexed in Yahoo, your
web site will also got indexed in Altavista, AllTheWeb and other
search engines feed by Yahoo. Here is the link to submit your
web site’s URL to Yahoo (require registration) :

http://rds.yahoo.com/search/submit/free/*-http://submit.search.ya

hoo.com/free/request

Submission to over 100,000, 500,000 search engines and
directories. My advice is to not using them. It might be
useless, unless you want your email box to get spammed. If your
site is indexed by big search engines, most probably those
smaller search engine will get your URL as well.

In the beginning of this article, I had mentioned about the
music homepage I built. The homepage now is indexed in every
search engine available although I never submit it to any search
engine. The key is to be linked by other sites. I may write an
article about this later

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