Search Engines for the Complete Newbie

Okay, youve got your website on the Internet. Now what? Just because its there doesnt mean anyone is going to see it. To get your site seen, you need to get it listed in the Search Engines.

A Search Engine is the first place someone on the Internet goes to look for...anything. So how do you get listed in the Search Engines? First, ask yourself what YOU would type in a browser to find YOUR website. Do you have an online gift shop? What do you sell in it? Use those words AND phrases as your keywords.

Got them ready? Good. Now, what do you do with them? You use them - in your website description, page title(s) and meta tags.

Your what? Meta Tags. These keywords are placed within the HTML Code of your web pages. Slow Down! HTML Code? HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language, to be specific) is the code that makes the "pieces" of your site (graphics, text and/or links) show up where you want them to on your web page.

Once you (or your website designer) have the keywords in place, you can "submit" your site to the search engines. You CAN use a submission service to quickly add your URL, but...you dont know for sure if its been added unless you do it yourself.

Each Search Engine has its own specific rules for submission. Be sure you read their policies thoroughly because they change often.

Here are the links to the top FREE search engines to submit to:

Alta Vista
http://addurl.altavista.com/sites/addurl/newurl
All The Web
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
Hot Bot
http://www.hotbot.lycos.co.uk/submit.html
Google
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Lycos
http://www.lycos.co.uk/service/addasite.html
Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html

Other Important Engines

Aeiwi
http://www.aeiwi.com/submit.html
2kCity
http://www.2kcity.com/search/addurl.asp?page=adurl
Exact Seek
http://www.exactseek.com/add.html
Find Once
http://www.findonce.com/submit/
Frequent Finders
http://www.frequentfinders.com/addsite.php
Surf Gopher
http://www.surfgopher.com/addurl.htm
Info Tiger
http://www.infotiger.com/addurl.html
Master Site
http://www.mastersite.com/addurl.htm
National Directory
http://www.nationaldirectory.com/addurl/
Scrub the Web
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
Search It
http://www.searchit.com/addurl.htm
Splat Search
http://www.splatsearch.com/submit.html
True Search
http://www.truesearch.com/addurl/
Googley
http://www.googley.com/cgibin/search.cgi?AddSite=prompt
Infomak
http://www.url.infomak.com
What You Seek
http://www.whatyouseek.com/addurl-secondary.shtml
Walhello
http://www.walhello.com/addlinkgl.html
Subjex
http://www.subjex.com/submit_url.html

Youre finished. Or are you? There are a LOT more search engines out there...just type "search engine" in one of them and see what comes up! There are also pay-per-click engines and directories...but this article is for the Newbie. Lets
not get you overwhelmed!

I hope this article helps you understand more about what is involved in search engine submissions. If you have questions, send them to jwright@aboutaffiliates.com. Ill answer them as best I can.

About the author.

Written by Jude Wright (c) 2002
Jude has been on the Net for about eighteen months and has started her own ezine: All About Affiliates and More. Subscribe: subsc@aboutaffiliates.com

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