Submitting Your Site to Major Search Engine and Directory

Search engines and directories are the primary means of finding web pages on the web. This means that it is important for your web site to be listed on the major search engines.

In addition, its great to work towards a good ranking for your website. This way your website will appear at the beginning of the search engine listing rather than be lost at the end.
There is no standard way the different search engines seek and classify web sites. But understanding how the major search engines do this increase the chances of your website having a good listing.

Different search engines works different way. You may refer to the URL below to submit to those major search engines. Kindly be informed that some search engines takes a few days to index your site, and sometimes requires even a few weeks.

Google http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
(Regarding Yahoo, it works differently. It require you to "Suggest your site")
DMOZ Directory http://dmoz.org/add.html
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/addurl/default

Malaysia Local Search Engine / Directory
Cari http://search3.cari.com.my/newlinks/addlinks/
Catcha http://search.catcha.com.my/cgi-bin/l/add.cgi
New Malaysia http://search.newmalaysia.com/cgi-bin/addurl.cgi

Russia Local Search Engine / Directory
Yandex: http://webmaster.yandex.ru/ Go to the site by clicking the link or copy the link to the Google Webpage Translator, Enter the captcha code

Rambler: http://robot.rambler.ru/cgi-bin/addsite.cgi Go to the site by clicking the link or copy the link to the Google Webpage Translator , Enter the captcha code.

China Local Search Engine / Directory
Baidu: http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html


Why submit to Search Engines?

We know that internet users search for websites or information on the web mainly through enquiring on a search engine or directory. The Search Engine responds to this by looking through its database and displaying all the matching sites - all in a jiffy. That is why it is important that your website is listed in the database of major search engines and directories. This way it will be possible for others to locate/find your site.

Examples of major search engines are Excite, Google and AltaVista.


Why submit to Directories?

We know that directories are as much used by internet users to search for websites or information on the web as that of inquiring on a search engine. That is why it is important that your website is also listed in the database of major directories (in addition to getting it listed in search engines).

The directory responds to keyword search by looking through its database and displaying all the matching sites - all in a jiffy just like a search engine. Alternatively in a directory, users could go through categories into subcategories and find the relevant information.

Examples of major directories are Yahoo, Open Directory and Lycos.


When to submit?

Its best to start submitting the website address to the relevant search engines and directories as soon the website is ready. If the website is still under construction, many of these search engines and directories will not index the website.




1. Submit your blog URL to search engines and directories

2. Once the search engines receive your blog URL, they may visit, review and index your site.

3. Visitors use these search engines to find what they are looking for by typing in keywords and phrases.

4. The search engines provide visitors with results, using the sites they have indexed and reviewed.

5. The visitors review the result and select the site that best suits their needs. If your site qualify, the visitors will click on the link and they will be redirected to your blog.

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