We submit your website to the top 19 search engines and directories.
After a few weeks you will begin to find your
website name within those search engines. Your
website will also receive a page ranking, this
ranking will fluctuate so if you are interested
in a higher ranking, we can direct you to a
number of different services that specialize in
search engine placement. Below are some commonly
asked questions about search
engines and how they work.
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| Q: What's an Internet search
engine?
A: An Internet search engine is a tool that web
surfers use to search the Internet. Think of it
as a Yellow Pages for Internet web sites, but
much more advanced. People type in words or
phrases for which they wish to search, and the
search engine returns a list of web sites that
match that word or phrase. For example, a search
for "online bookstore" might return web sites
like Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble's Web site.
A search engine is a critical tool in finding
information, products and businesses on the web.
Q: How do I get to a search engine?
A: Each search engine has its own web site that
you can visit in order to perform searches.
Search engines are also built into AOL and into
web browsers like Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Q: What's the difference between a Search Engine
and a Web Directory?
A: A search engine searches all the sites on the
web (or all the sites that it knows about on the
web, to be more precise). A directory only
includes sites that have been reviewed and
accepted by a person. Search engines generally
will find more sites than directories, because
search engines automatically add more and more
sites to their databases as they find them. But
directories generally have higher quality
listings because these sites have been screened
and reviewed by a human being. Some search
engines, like Google, Looksmart and Yahoo
combine a directory with a search engine for
comprehensive search results.
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Q: How do I get my
site listed in the search engines?
A: If there are multiple links from other web
sites to your site, then your site may already
be listed in some or all of the search engines.
Many search engines send out 'spiders' or 'bots'
that endlessly follow links from web site to web
site seeking out new pages to add to their index
databases. If your site is not yet listed in a
specific search engine, then you can generally
find an "Add URL" feature on the search engine's
home page that allows you to request that your
web site be added to the search engine.
Q: If I add my web site to a search engine, will
I get more visitors to the site?
A: Possibly, but not necessarily. There are
literally millions of sites on the World Wide
Web, and several billion web pages! Search
engines attempt to index as many sites as
possible, but generally only cover a small
percentage of what's out there. Even so, a
search for "books for sale" on Google returns
over 3 million pages that match this search
phrase! When a user performs a search, he or she
will generally only look at the first 3 or 4
pages of web sites that are returned (usually
the first 20 to 40 web sites). If your Web site
does not show up in the first 4 pages for a
particular search word or phrase, then you might
as well be invisible.
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