Submitting a website to search engines

cosmo

What is the best way to submit a website to search engines?



I've been using search engines to find out, and i've come up with a lot of garbage, and whenever i find a site that looks reliable and will submitt the site to many different engines it is not free.



What is the best and most reliable way to submit a site to multiple search engines free of charge?



Does anyone have experiences with search engines (good or bad)?

dogcow

You can add META tags to your pages when web crawlers find your page they will remember the meta keywords. otherwise most search sites will have an "Add URL" link to manually enter your site into it.

eugene

you can also include a robots.txt file to show respectful crawlers what directories you want indexed and what directories you don't want indexed...

zonetuke

Definitely set your meta tags correctly. But some engines ignore them. I use <a href="http://www.trafficstudio.com/dumptruck/about.htm"; target="_blank">DumpTruck</a> which is pretty good for submissions.



Also see these links:

<a href="http://spider-food.net/meta-tags.html"; target="_blank">http://spider-food.net/meta-tags.html</a>;

<a href="http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html"; target="_blank">http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html</a>;

<a href="http://www.searchengineworld.com/engine/index.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.searchengineworld.com/engine/index.htm</a>;

bradbower

I agree, META tags are the best way to get famous, though to get found out, first you have to get linked, and not be at some places like GeoShitties (not that any half-brained webmasters would create a worthwhile site there, or anything). I put up META tags on my site, <a href="http://brad.digistatic.net/"; target="_blank">http://brad.digistatic.net/</a>; , and now whenever you search for "brad bower" on google, some of the top links are my site and my livejournal, which is nice. Now if only people I used to know would try to find me, and know that it's actually me whose journal and site they're looking at..

leonis

The name of your domain also can affect the search result. Of course if only works if you are lucky enough to have the exact domain name that you want.



When you are setting META tag be very careful about the words you use.



Here's the story....my site for example. I put words "fantasy", "surreal" and such into my meta tags. Those porn site search engines always look for those kind of words.....in other words....my site always is referred by those porn network! <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



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bradbower

Yeah, that's also true. Which is why I'm a little irked my webhost is taking so long to fix whatever is causing <a href="http://www.bradbower.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.bradbower.com/</a>; to be broken!