There are hundreds of search engines and directories on the Internet, but experts say that most of your search engine traffic comes from the top Internet Search Engines and directories. In order to receive a top listing, you should submit your site to these search engines manually because some of the top internet search engines can now detect website URL submission software. Experts also believe that some search engines will drop sites that do not regularly update their website URLs.
I have created this search engine submission site to allow Internet webmasters an easy method to submit web sites manually to the top Internet search engines and to improve your website's ranking. The easiest method of doing this is to copy your website URL to the clipboard (highlight it and press CRTL-C) and then from this page, just click the "add" URL link next to the search engine. This will take you directly to each individual search engine submission site. Then press CTRL-V to paste your website URL into the submit URL field to register your website. The search engine will then register your website URL with the database and add it to the index. Remember to use the "back" button on your browser to return to this page. Bookmark this page now and return to it once a month to submit your site to the top search engines. For more information on search engines, URL registrations and website promotion please visit the Search Engine Watch site listed below.
| Top Search Engines | Add Site | Comments |
| AOL.COM Search | Uses Open Directory | |
| Alta Vista | add | |
| Direct Hit | add | Direct Hit is a company that works with other search engines to refine their results. |
| Excite | add | also Powers AOL Netfind |
| FAST Search | add | |
| Go / Infoseek | add | |
| goto.com | directory | Paid Directory, Non-paid results come from Inktomi. |
| add | Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites because users across the web have in essence voted for good sites by linking to them. | |
| HotBot | add | In most cases, HotBot's first page of results comes from the Direct Hit service, and then secondary results come from the Inktomi search engine, which is also used by other services. It gets its directory information from the Open Directory. |
| InfoSeek | add | (Same a Go / Infoseek) |
| iWon | iWon has a directory of web sites generated automatically by Inktomi, which also provides its more traditional crawler-based results. | |
| Inktomi | Used at HotBot and others | |
| LookSmart | directory | LookSmart is a human compiled directory, it also provides directory results to MSN Search, Excite and many others. AltaVista provides LookSmart with search results when a search fails to find a match from among LookSmart's reviews. |
| Lycos | add | Its main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary results come from either Direct Hit or Lycos' own spider. |
| Magellan | add | |
| MSN Search | add | Microsoft's MSN Search service is a LookSmart powered directory of web sites, with secondary results that come from AltaVista, RealNames and Direct Hit. |
| WebCrawler | add | |
| Netscape Search | add | Netscape Search's results come primarily from the Open Directory and Netscape's own "Smart Browsing" database, which does an excellent job of listing "official" web sites. Secondary results come from Google. |
| NorthernLight | add | |
| Open Directory | directory | Lycos and AOL Search also make heavy use of Open Directory data. AltaVista and HotBot also feature Open Directory categories within their results pages. |
| RealNames | The RealNames system is meant to be an alternative to the current web site addressing system; it is strongly featured in results at AltaVista, Go and MSN Search. | |
| SNAP.com | directory | Snap is backed by Cnet and NBC. |
| Yahoo | directory | Yahoo supplements its results with those from Inktomi. |
| Aeiwi | add | |
| EuroSeek | add | A European based search engine |
| G.O.D. | add | UK based global directory. |
| HotLinks | It collects members bookmarks to form its listings. | |
| Qango | directory | Directory similar to Yahoo but small. |
| Voila | add | Global search engine, Performs translation in real time |
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