Registering with Search Engines

[underwaterworld]

Does anyone know how i can register my site to yahoo, ask, lycos and all other search engines.

[garyhay]

Yahoo will review a site if you pay them. Your site has to meet certain critera and if it does not they will bounce you. Suggest you post your site url so we can have a look at it.

The answer to the real question is hard work or PPC per per click

www.overture.com or www.inktomi.com

[allen]

Rubbish. Not total rubbish, just rubbish.

It's a good site with lots of good content (particularly text-based content) and www.google.com. Oh yeah, putting your site in www.dmoz.org gets you into google faster in my experiance.

You can, of course, also use PPC advertising.

Allen

[pinbrook]

you can go to each search engine and find the submit your site link and go from there. Most engines now require you to pay, all paid for listings come above free listings.

Google is the only engine where with optimisation you can get to the top - they also offer paid for adverts down the right hand side, and sponsored links! Mirago is free too

the best engines to bite the bullet and pay for are Yahoo and Looksmart. these 2 engines combined with google give excellent results.

Other engines which will take your money include Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite, Ask Jeeves,......but I don't really think they offer value for money


and there is Overture ppc keyword bidding

Oh and don't forget DMOZ...very important to help with Google

[yvonne]

The value of linking

Hi Gavin

The very BEST way in my opinion to get your site listed in most of the bigger search engines (except Yahoo's directory & Looksmart) is to get your site linked to from other highly ranked sites that are frequently indexed by search engine spiders and not by direct submission. Spiders seem to prefer sites they've found on their own rather than those they're directly sent to. The often give such sites a higher ranking and index more of their pages than on direct submissions.

yvonne

[allen]

Don't forget though, that many sites use Google's listings as well as their own - and virtually all the search engines use the DMOZ directory.

Allen

[cdicken]

Guys

Great discussion, but just for future reference this sort of question is more appropriate for the 'Ecommerce Business Issues' Topic.

[jonmac]

Use dmoz.org for Google and visit other search engines and look for the Add URL bit and do it manually. But first ensure you have all your meta tags in place and a good title and description all including good keywords and phrases.

[cdicken]

I have now closed this thread - if you would like to, please continue in discussion in 'Ecommerce Business Issues'.