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14-Jun-2005, 10:07 PM #1
No charge URL submission for search engines
I am have been looking at different search engines to submit my site URL for inclusion in their engines. I thought that this is a free service but they all seems to charge something. Which search engines accept URL submission without charging? Thank you.
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14-Jun-2005, 10:28 PM #2
Google
Yahoo
Altavista

Those three, I never incountered any charges from them
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17-Jul-2005, 04:12 PM #3
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Google
Yahoo
Altavista

Those three, I never incountered any charges from them
Do you know if our chance is high to get a URL accepted without paying?
They say it will take several weeks for their engines to crawl to the URL . And in your past experience, does it means 2 weeks or 10 weeks? Thank you.
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17-Jul-2005, 04:24 PM #4
Well on Google, my site is usually added within the month (2-4 weeks).
Yahoo and Altavista sometimes take longer to add. They don't seem as efficant as Google
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17-Jul-2005, 04:41 PM #5
Let Google find it on its own. You'll get a better ranking.
Submit it to DMOZ, if anything.
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17-Jul-2005, 07:42 PM #6
If your host has cpanel, cpanel has a script that will submit you to most of the major sites.
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17-Jul-2005, 10:24 PM #7
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Let Google find it on its own. You'll get a better ranking.
Submit it to DMOZ, if anything.
What is a DMOZ???
I just submitted to Google. Is it too late to do something else?
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17-Jul-2005, 10:26 PM #8
http://dmoz.org

Its fine if you already submitted it, but submission isn't going to give you good rankings. You need to have good content, and other people linking to your site to get up in the listings.
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30-Jul-2005, 05:28 PM #9
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http://dmoz.org

Its fine if you already submitted it, but submission isn't going to give you good rankings. You need to have good content, and other people linking to your site to get up in the listings.

Do you know if is it only your url in another site or the actual number of visitors going to site by clicking that link to get a higher ranking?
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31-Jul-2005, 02:46 AM #10
yeah google bot will find your site eventually, and there are lots of web spiders around, and some of them aren't nice, u'll save bandwidth by making robot.txt to block some bots, not all bots are nice.
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Concentrate on Google, Yahoo, MSN and the others will follow and pick it up.

Google changes from time to time but if you want them to pick you up it takes a combination of things.

Content is King--the more pages and info the better.
Popularity-when highly ranked sites link to your site, google thinks you are important too. Get linked from other pages.
Get linked from BLOGS, Newsgroups, anywhere there is a lot of traffic.

Format you page as follows

-Few photos with alt tags, and 300-600 words of text.
-Page titles with 3-6 word titles starting with most important keyword..every page should have different title
-H1 Header with most important keyword (2-5 words)
-H2 headers with next most important keywords at top of paragraphs (2-5 words)

Meta Tags
- description meta tag that has good description using the header text and keywords
-10-15 key words taken from the text and header of the of the page
- index, follow tag that tells robots to follow to rest of pages after home page
-return tag the tells robot to come back in 30 days for new info
-comment tags with description and top five key words

Tags in the header should look something like this

<TITLE>4-6 keyword title</TITLE>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="add key words here separated with commas">

<META NAME="description" CONTENT="15-20 word description using keywords .">

<META NAME="category" content="type of site">

<META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">

<META name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">

<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days">

<META NAME="author" CONTENT="name and web site of author">

<!--// another description of the site 15-20 words. //--!>


one of the quickest ways to get listed is a referral from another site. A site that is ranked high on google gets spidered almost every day and if one of those sites puts a paragraph in their news about your site and puts a link to you, the spider will follow the link to your site.

If your site is formatted similar to the tags above with some good content, you will get listed asap.

Normal submissions are reviewed once a month by google but you never know when that day is so it could be 1-30 days before your site is reviewed for listing.

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