Since search engines (SE) and directories account for over 80% of the traffic that a website receives, your top priority would be to make sure that your site is listed with them. However, it doesn't help to be listed if your link shows up on the 20th page of search results. Before submitting make sure that your site is optimized for the best possible search ranking.
While there are tens of thousands of search engines on the web, over 90% of the search engine referrals come from the top four search engines (see figure below). They include Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL Search. Needless to say, it is absolutely crucial that your site is listed with these giants. Although you really don't need to submit your site to them (their spiders will eventually find and index your site), it does not hurt to make sure that your site gets queued for indexing.
Although there are many online services and software packages that can quickly mass-submit your site to large number of search engines and directories for you, you should submit your site manually to the major search engines. Automated methods are susceptible to errors and glitches that may prevent your site from being accepted. If you're opting for mass submission, be wary of companies offering to submit your site to "50,000 search engines and directories". Chances are you'll be paying an exorbitant fee this service, and most of the advertised "50,000 search engines and directories" will be useless free-for-all link pages and spammers masquerading as search engines.
Manual Submission to Search Engines
Here the links to submit your site manually to many search engines:
Major Search Engines
1.
Google URL Submission - FREE - You don't need to submit your site to Google (they prefer that you don't). Eventually, Google will find your site and index it on its own. At this time, it takes up to eight weeks or longer to get a new site listed on Google. If you need to get on Google faster, consider running an AdWords pay-per-click program. 2.
Yahoo! URL Submission - FREE - Yahoo! will index your site in as little as 2 to 5 days. 3.
MSN URL Submission - FREE 4.
AOL Search URL Submission - FREE -All AOL user-submitted Web content is maintained by the Open Directory Project (), which is run by a staff of volunteer editors who will accept or reject sites at their discretion. 5.
Excite.com Paid Inclusion - Charges a fee ($49.95 for one url) for guaranteed inclusion within 72 hours.
Smaller Search Engines
Listed in descending order of traffic.* Some of these SE's accept automated submissions; others require manual submissions. All submissions are FREE.
Entireweb URL Submission Scrub the web URL Submission What U Seek Gimpsy WebSquash AeiwiSearchIt Starting Point intelSeek Web World SearchSight SplatSearch SearchEngine.com NerdWorld Qango Buzzle MavicaNet TryAmerica WWWRIOT Walhello Go4.it CanLinks TrueSearch Info Tiger TurnPike Subjex Cipinet ClickForChoice MixCat WebbieWorld SurfSafely Amray NetNose Noago
* Traffic rankings change continually, so the above order may not be accurate.
Mass Search Engine Submission
Although we suggest that you submit your site to the major search engines manually, you may wish to to use an automatic submission tool (see Free Web Tools) or paid service to submit to the many smaller search engines and directories.
Web Launch URL Submission Service - Submit your site to top 34 search engines for FREE. There is no obligation whatsoever for this free service (however, we appreciate your linking to us if you find this service useful). If you need more exposure, we can submit your site to over 300 search engines for just $4.95.
After Submitting
After submitting your site to the search engines, check them periodically to make sure that it's listed. Your site may not appear in the search results because the crawler has not gotten to it, yet. Resubmit if you wish. Resubmitting a site that has been submitted already won't help your site get listed faster, but it won't hurt, either. If your site is listed but is poorly ranked in the search results, check its html to make sure it's properly optimized for the keywords that you are targeting. Even well-optimized, content-rich sites may not get ranked highly at first because of poor link popularity. In that case, keep promoting it the word gets around.
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