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Free Search Engine Submission

General Information:

Use this control panel to submit your website to 15 top search engines. Just enter your URL and other information below, check the search engines you want and press 'Submit.' After a short wait you'll get a report on the status of your submissions.

To reduce the wait, please only submit to no more than three search engines at a time.

Some examples of URL's:

- http://www.yourdomain.com
- http://www.yourdomain.com/secondpage.html
- http://www.yourdomain.com/fruits/apples.html

For more information check the notes and search engine tips below.

Enter Your URL Here:

Enter Your Email Address Here:

Enter Your Name Here (only required by Northern Light):

Primary Language:

Geographical Location:

Category Which Describes Your Website:

Select Search Engines: (For best results only do four at a time)

AltaVista Excite Anzwers

Webcrawler Infoseek Northern Light

Lycos HotBot Euroferret

WhatUSeek Voila Canada.com

Fireball Google Eule

Press this button only once. There will be a few minute wait as we submit your URL and wait for responses.

Notes:

Submit your website as often as you like or whenever your make changes.
If you have web pages covering different topics then make sure you submit a URL for each web page.
Search engines occasionally stop taking new URL's or are shut-down for maintenance. If your site is not accepted by a search engine then try again the next day.
This submission page can only be used by Intersessions clients. All other URL's will be rejected.
Yahoo, one of the most popular search engines, requires you to select a location in their directory for your website. As a result, we can't submit your URL directly. However, you can follow this link to Yahoo's submission instruction page.

Search Engine Tips:

Getting indexed by the major search engines is important - they can send you a lot of traffic. In fact, they are responsible for sending the majority of visitors to most sites. The search engines below are the most popular, used by millions of people every day.

Ranking Method: How the search engine determines your ranking. The closer you are to the top, the more people will check out your site. Here are some of the various methods Search Engines use to rank sites. Below you'll find a table describing which search engines use what!

Title, Page Text, Meta Tags, Alt Tags: Keywords (words which your visitors might be searching for) in these parts of your page will help. If your not sure what these terms mean, check out the Sitelaunch Checklist.
Site Popularity: How many other sites link to yours. The more sites that link to yours, the better your ranking.

Engine	Description	Ranking Method	Popularity
55,000,000 pages indexed	A very successful engine, Excite has acquired two other engines: Magellan and Webcrawler.	Title, Page Text	23.05%
30,000,000 pages indexed	Lycos offers search functions, as well as a directory called "Web Guides".	Title, META tags, Page Text, Site Popularity, Alt tags	1.18%
110,000,000 pages indexed	The largest Search engine in the world, HOTBOT was ranked #1 by CNET's Search Engine Shootout.	Title, Meta Tags, Page Text, Site Popularity	2.41%
500,000 pages indexed	Yahoo! is actually a directory, not a Search Engine. Due to it's huge popularity, it is one of the most important places to register.	Individual site review	40.01%
2,000,000 pages indexed	Started as a research project at The University of Washington, Webcrawler was bought by America Online, then Excite.	Title, Page Text, Popularity, Alt tags	4.40%
100,000,000 pages indexed	The favorite of experienced surfers, Alta Vista has recently partnered with Yahoo!	Title, Meta Tags, Page Text, Alt tags	14.15%
30,000,000 pages indexed	A combination directory and Search Engine, Infoseek also reviews and recommends sites.	Title, Meta Tags, Page Text, Alt tags	8.00%

Meta Tags: Controlling how your Web page is indexed

In the absence of any other information, most search engines will index all words in your document (except for comments), and will use the first few words of the document as a short abstract. It is however possible for you to control how your page is indexed by using META tags to specify both additional keywords to index, and a short description. Let's suppose your page contains:

<META name="description" content="We specialize in grooming pink poodles.">

<META name="keywords" content="pet grooming, Palo Alto, dog">

The search engines will then do two things:

They will index both fields as words, so a search on either poodles or dog will match.
They will return the description with the URL. In other words, instead of showing the first couple of lines of the page, a match will look like the following:

Pink Poodles Inc
We specialize in grooming pink poodles.
http://pink.poodle.org/ - size 3k - 29 Feb 96

AltaVista will index the description and keywords up to a limit of 1,024 characters.

META tags are placed between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags at the top of your web page. Depending on your HTML editor you may need to use the 'edit source code' feature to put them in.

Other Tips:

Title: Your title is very important; it is one of the first things read by a visitor, and is also very important when a Search Engine ranks your site. A title should be descriptive, and contain your keywords, briefly outlining the focus of that page.
- A bad title: "Jim's Music!"
- A good title: "Jim's Jazz Online - concert listings, new CDs, music reviews and more!"
Alt Tags: Alt Tags are words or descriptive sentences inserted into an image link. This tag is used by some search engines, and is quite easy to include. The alt tag also allows visitors surfing without images to understand the site better. Most browsers display the alt tag as the image is loading. Here is how to include the tag in the HTML source code. If you are using an editor to make web pages, it should be quite easy to include the tag.
Normal image tag:

<IMG SRC="example.gif">

Image with alt tag:

<IMG SRC="example.gif" ALT="check out these great examples!">