Site submission is the process of suggesting a site to a search engine. It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective visitors. Search engines use computer programs called Robots to automatically go from page to page through the web, reading content, and adding it to their databases. To speed up the process of getting your site indexed, they usually have a way for you to submit your site for indexing. You usually only have to tell a Search Engine the URL (address) of your site and it takes care of the rest. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site's Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages.
Most people confuses crawler-based search engines with human-based search engines. Crawler-based search engine uses a program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns the list of documents i.e. webpages. You are not required to submit your site to such spider-based search engines. They can find your site on even if you don't submit your site. Whereas search engine such as Yahoo! are human based search engines and you are required to submit your site so that they can index your site. Human-based search engines are based on people listings.
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There are some sites such as FreeWebsubmission, AddMe, SubmitExpress which can do bulk site submission to various search engines as they claim. But how far can we trust them is far to unanswered.
Below is the list of some search engines where you can manually add your site and be satisfied.
Major Search Engines
Google - Submit site to Google Some popular search engines which are powered by Google includes Netscape, AOL Search, Alexa, IWonMSN Search - Submit site to MSN
Yahoo! - Submit site to Yahoo! (Requires yahoo account log in) Some popular search engines which are powered by Yahoo includes AllTheWeb, AltaVista,
NB: Many Search Engines these days also depends upon Open Directory Project such as DMoz. ( Submit to DMoz )
Other Search Engines
- Aesop - Submit site to Aesop
- Amfibi - Submit site to Amfibi
- AXXAsearch - Submit site to AXXAsearch
- BigFinder - Submit site to BigFinder
- Cipinet - Submit site to Cipinet
- ExactSeek - Submit site to ExactSeek
- Find Once - Submit site to Find Once
- Gigablast - Submit site to Gigablast
- InfoTiger - Submit site to InfoTiger
- MixCat - Submit site to MixCat
- NetWhat Search - Submit site to NetWhat Search (only one site per day allowed)
- Scrub The Web - Submit site to Scrub The Web
- SearchIt - Submit site to SearchIt
- Splat Search - Submit site to Splat Search
- Subjex - Submit site to Subjex
- Surfgopher - Submit site to Surfgopher (requires reciprocal link)
- TrueSearch - Submit site to TrueSearch
- What U Seek - Submit site to What U Seek
