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Warning:
Don't try to submit to The Open Directory unless
you have enough useful information on your
site. If your site is only one or two pages
long, then you won't likely get listed. They
want medium to large sized web sites with useful
and unique content. Strive for at least 15
pages. If
you need more content,
articlecity.com
has some free articles you can post on your
site. Simply find the category that closely
matches your theme and add them. Be careful
though, don't use too many articles because the
engines may penalize your site if you have too
much duplicate content.
2)
The second way to get listed in Google is to use
their own Add URL form located here
http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
This method is not as dependable as listing with
The Open Directory, but it can get you in.
Google admits that they may not add every site,
so don't be surprised if this does not work for
you.
3)
The third
way to get listed is to be linked from another
web site that is already in Google. That way,
when Google's spider goes to visit that site for
updates, it will pick up the link to your site
and add it. This method does not always work,
but many sites do get in this way.
Getting into
Yahoo and MSN
Most websites get into Yahoo
and MSN by getting spidered from other sites.
Meaning if you're already linked from another
site or web directory, MSN and Yahoo's robots
will eventually find you when they update their
search index.
If you don't want to wait to
get spidered, you can submit directly to MSN by
going here
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx.
Do not keep re-submitting your site. It will not
speed up the process of getting listed and may
even get you banned.
Yahoo does not have a direct
submission link so their engine will eventually
find your site once you get linked from other
sites that are already in their index.
The Yahoo Directory
Not to be confused with the
regular Yahoo search function, the Yahoo
directory is also a place you can add your site.
When you go to Yahoo.com and enter a search into
the box, you are using their regular search
engine, not the directory. So it is possible to
be included in Yahoo's regular search index and
not be included in their directory.
The Yahoo directory is
actually a categorical listing of sites located
here
http://dir.yahoo.com and it's not used
very much by web surfers. The real benefit to
being listed here is to have a high quality link
pointing to your site. Many search engines
look at who is linking to you and
if you have a link from the Yahoo directory, it
may give you some "credibility" points.
Some believe that having a
listing in the directory will help boost your
site in Google and other engines. There is no
solid proof of this, however. Yahoo also states
that if you are listed in their directory, it
does not have any affect on your position in
their regular search results.
If your site is commercial it
will cost you $299 per year to be included in
Yahoo's directory. So if you can justify/afford
the cost, I would still recommend getting into
Yahoo just to have the high-quality link
pointing to your site - but don't expect a lot
of traffic from the actual page you'll be listed
on.
It's up to you to decide if
it's worth it or not. Many webmasters do quite
well in the "Big 3" search engines without a
listing in the Yahoo directory.
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