Search Engines

Submit your site to search engines Be sure to submit your web site to as many search engines as you can.

• Are The Search Engines Censoring The Internet? It seems everyone wants to be listed in the search engines. However, the are apparently some concessions to be made.
  • The Problem With Search Engines Search engines are the most used and least trusted way to find information on the web. Use them to promote your site, but be sure and build up other ways for people to get to you.
• General Search Engines There are just a dozen or so big general search engines to concentrate on.
  • AltaVista AltaVista is one of the busiest search engines. It is also one of the best places to get your site listed. Their Scooter spider flitters all over the web looking for sites to add to their index.
    • Scooter Scooter is the spider for the Altavista search engine
  • Direct Hit Direct Hit is a good search engine that spiders about every 30 days
  • Excite Excite is one of the hugest search engines on the web.
  • Google Google is the hugest search engines on the web.
    • Googlebot Googlebot is the spider for the Google search engine
    • Google And Duplicate Content So does Google penalize for duplicate content? Or is it just another urban legend?
    • Google's Search Options Google has many different search options. This table lists them all.
    • Google - Page Rank Explained What is this thing called Page Rank? Does it really matter?
    • Frequently Asked Questions About Google (For Surfers) Some of the questions commonly asked by surfers appear on this page.
    • Frequently Asked Questions About Google (For Webmasters) Many of the questions commonly asked by webmasters are listed and answered on this page.
    • How Did I Get Listed in Google? Sometimes you get listed in Google evem though you didn't even try. Here are some of the ways.
  • HotBot HotBot is one of the most popular search engines. Getting listed here is always a great idea.
    • Slurp Slurp is the spider for the Inktomi search database. This is used by Hotbot.
  • InfoMak Infomak is a great search engine to be listed in.
  • Lycos Lycos is a great, heavily advertised search engine.
  • WebCrawler WebCrawler is another great search engine.
  • What-U-Seek What-U-Seek is another great search engine.
• Directories are great places to get your web site listed A directory is a list of web sites which is usually maintained in some manner by human beings. These have the advantage over search engines in that they are typically better matches for your needs.
• Here's a list of many of the search engines available Submit your web site to as many of these as you can and you will get more traffic.
• Use ROBOTS.TXT to control search engine indexing You can use ROBOTS.TXT to keep search engines from indexing parts of your site
• Cloaking Want to get your site thrown out of the search engines for good. If so, then by all means use cloaking to manipulate yoru search engine rankings.
• Search Engine Spamming Using somewhat questionable techniques, you can force your site to be higher in the rankings, and thus get more traffic. That is, until you get caught...
  • Domain Name Spamming You can artificially raise your site in the search listings by manipulating your site's domain name.
  • Guestbook spamming Some unethical companies and webmasters perform mass postings to thousands or even millions of guestbooks to gain pagerank.
  • Log File Spamming Some webmasters leave reports of their hits (including referrers) open to public viewing. This can be used to unethically raise a site in search engine rankings.
• Highlights from a recent posting on WebMasterWorld Recent evidence suggests that Google may be run by aliens...