Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Top Ten search engines to add your site

If you want to add more traffic to your site, one thing you can do is to add them to search engines. There are a lot of search engines around the internet. You may want to add your site to all of them but I won't do that.

Why? Because I'm lazy. Instead of adding your site to every search engine that you can find, why not just add your site to the The Top 10 Web Search Engines & Directories instead?

Let me give a quick view of the top 10 search engines and directories and also the page where you can submit your url to them. (Note: I can't find the submit URL for #2, #4, #5, #6, #8 so if you know the website, please let me know so that I can complete the list. Thank you)

1. Google - Submit your site to Google
2. Vivisimo - Read Note 0
2. Yahoo - Submit your site to Yahoo
4. About
5. Ask /AskJeeves - Read Note 1
6. Dogpile - Read Note 2
7. MSN - Submit your site to MSN.
8. KartOO - (first time I heard of this search engine. Actually it looks cool, using flash and maps to display results instead of the conventional all text results)
9. Alltheweb - Submit your site to Alltheweb. Read Note 3
10. Dmoz.org - I can't access the page for now =(

Note 0: As you may have noticed, there are two #2s in the top 10. This is not a typo because the it is the results of a tie. (Edited after 1st comment hehe ^_^)
Note 1: Based on some postings in this forum, it seems that askjeeves / ask will just index you on their own and you can't submit to their submit manually for free or even if you pay (possible scammers).
Note 2: Since dogpile is a search engine that searches other search engines, the only way you can add your site is to add them to the search engines that dogpile searches. (eg. Google, Yahoo etc.)
Note 3: You may be wondering why the submit url for Alltheweb is the same as yahoo. Alltheweb states that their search results are provided by yahoo.

2 comments:

aj said...

you have 2 #2. ;)

Unknown said...

ah I forgot to mention, Yahoo and Vivisimo were tied at # 2. Thanks for visiting. =)