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Frequently Asked Questions
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How do I submit my site to search engines?
Below you will find the resources on the web for submitting your website to Directories and search engines.
Standard submission for Yahoo.
For submitting for free to a non-commercial category. If you use the free submit choice, there's no guarantee that your submission will be reviewed quickly or at all.
Your submission to a non-commercial category is more likely to be accepted if your
content is not overtly commercial.
For commercial submission, Yahoo requires that sites pay a Yahoo Express submission fee of $299 per year. This fee doesn't guarantee that you will be listed, only that you'll get a yes or no answer within seven business days. However, the majority of sites are accepted.
For commercial Yahoo Express Submission Form go to:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Submitting to Search Engine Crawlers:
Google is the most important crawler-based search engine. Several major search engines like Yahoo and AOL have their main results "powered" by Google.
The best way to get listed with Google is to build links to your web site, and it is also the best way to get listed for free with all the major crawlers. Crawlers follow links, so if you have good/popular links pointing to your site (link building), the crawlers are more likely to find and include your pages.
If you submitted your site to the major directories and got listed with one or more of them, you may not need to do additional work to get listed with crawlers.
Link building by far is the most important way to get listed and ranked. Google does provide an "Add URL" page that lets you submit a
URL directly to its crawler:
Add Your URL To Google go to:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
For more detailed information on submitting to search engines go to:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
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