Search Engine Submission and Web Site Indexing

In the industry of Internet marketing, search engine submission is very important! It is not the responsibility of a Web designer or developer to index, announce, promote or market the Web sites they design for you. Submissions and indexing is part of web announcing which is part of search engine marketing and is best handle by a professional Internet marketing specialist, like myself.

There are some "marketers" who hold that search engine submissions are not important, that you should just wait till the major search engines find a link to the site and hope it gets crawled. In some cases this reasoning does well, for instance, in this way you might avoid getting any "newly submitted" penalties, but I don't feel that one needs to really worry about that any more. I take a more aggressive approach. If I know your Web site is being frequently crawled by a major search engine then I would just let them crawl it. However, in most cases, I don't think a premium search engine would mind if you ask them to look at your new site next time they crawl.

I feel there are many proven benefits from aggressive search engine submission.

• Small traffic from a lot of places ads up!
• Good second tier search sites can become premium contenders.
• A great way to insure international findability.
• A well maintained directory or meta indice may contribute to off page ranking factors like link popularity
• Broadens your Internet community

I have a couple hundred book marked searchable databases covering virtually every industry and I do a lot of submitting by hand, the old fashioned way, except in depth. I also have a couple of great submission programs that help increase the number of places your site will appear, in addition to the major search sites and my bookmarks.

I do offer Web site indexing as a stand alone service too. All of my search engine marketing campaigns include an intensive and custom search engine submission package.

Here is a partial list of the search sites I'll submit your Web site too for inclusion. All of these sites allow free submission and do not guarantee inclusion. Free submissions take time. Time to submit and time for the listing to appear. When you need action fast you add PPI and/or PPC to your Web Announcing budget.

The major SE’s

Alta Vista
Inktomi
MSN
Hotbot
About
NBCi
Looksmart
Overture
Google
Lyco’s
Fast
All the Web
Teoma
Ask
Yahoo
Looksmart
Open Directory Project
AOL Search
Hot Bot
Lycos
Netscape
Infospace
Excite

Second Tier Search Engines and Directories:

National Directory
Mixcat
Rex Internet Resource Exchange
Entire Web
Subjex
Websurfer
Open Here
Quango
Pocoweb
Cozy Cabin
Cyberfetch
Alexa
Search Hippo
2Kcity
Lookseek
Exactseek
Hotrate
Try America
Aeiwi
AlaskaBot
Librarians Internet Index
Zensearch
411 Locate
City Yellow Pages
Dallasweb
411 Find
Zensearch
Aesop
Topsearchnet
Letsfinditnow
Admcity
Searchit
Questfinder
Superpages
Canlinks
Turnpike
Biz Cardz
Surfgopher
Starting Point
Frequent Finders
Info Tiger
Jayde
Northern Light
Quest Finder
Scrub The Web
Stop Dog
Super Snooper
Walhello
WhatUseek
Yahooligans

Popular International Search Sites:

Acoon (Germany)
Blitz (Germany)
Euroseek
Excite (Australia)
Find Once (UK)
Fireball (DE)
Free (France)
Hot Bot (UK)
Indibil (Spain)
Lycos (France)
Lycos (Germany)
Lycos (Italian)
Lycos (Spain)
Lycos (UK)
Origo (Norway)
Search Engine (UK)
ShinySeek (Italy)
Sun Steam (Norway)
Superva (Italian)
Sympatico (Canadian)
Unearth (New Zealand)
Voila (France)
Voila (Spain)
WebSearch (Australia)
Web Wombat (Australia)

That is not all of them but it is a lot of them. Also, I can find topical and regional indices that are specific to your business. These are great sites to be listed in!