What good is it to have a website promoting your business if it does not get any hits?
Everyone should know the answer to this question, but many businesses do not take the necessary action to aggressively pursue surfers to view their websites. The only way to improve the amount of visitors to your site is by registering your URL with the universal guides to the World Wide Web, known as search engines. |
 This page is intended to assist with the involved process of registering with the search engines and directories that are usually considered major players.
If you are serious about good placement, on a monthly basis you will want to read the search engine and directory policy on their placement guidelines.
Some sites are listed even though there is no way to register with them so that you will know they have not been overlooked.
Some of the search engines are powered by Excite, LookSmart, or Inktomi. Excite encourages separate registrations. There is no way you can register with Inktomi separately.
AltaVista (www.altavista.digital.com), a major search engine, policy page, META tag info, registration page
America on Line Netfind (www.aol.com/netfind/) search engine policy page, registration page
Ask Jeeves. http://www.aj.com "first natural language search service" info: They use five search engines. No way to register separately.
Excite (www.excite.com), a major search engine, policy page (start here and go through their list), registration page They have a team of people who review sites; but you cannot register for that review.
HotBot (www.hotbot.com), major search engine, policy page, registration page
Infoseek (www.infoseek.com), major search engine and directory, policy page, spamming info, registration page (Be careful when registering here. You could very easily report your website as a "dead URL" by pressing the wrong button.
Infospace (www.infospace.com) major directory. registration page
Looksmart (www.looksmart.com), major directory, policy & registration page
Lycos (www.lycos.com) major search engine with an "associated" directory, policy & registration page
Magellan (www.mckinley.com) search engine and directory. policy & registration page. They are powered by Excite. They admit that registering with them is the same as registering with Excite.
Netscape (http://www.netscape.com/), search engine powered by Excite. There is no way to register with them directly. Their "add a URL page" is a very clever advertisement.
Northern Light, (http://www.northernlight.com/ or http://www.nlsearch.com/), search engine and directory. policy & registration page.
Snap (www.snap.com) search engine and directory, partly powered by Inktomi, policy & registration page Because of their television advertisements, they should be a major entity real soon.
WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com), search engine, powered by Excite, policy page, registration page Even though they are powered by Excite, they are a major entity.
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