Submitting Your Website  

Now that your site is built properly, it is time to submit it to be indexed. One common approach is the use of automated submission software. We highly advise against this method and suggest performing manual submissions. Many search engines lately seem to be ignoring sites submitted with software. Doing it manually should only take a few moments and is well worth it. It should take roughly anywhere from 1 week to 3 months for the site to be indexed. Below are links to the major search engines that you should submit to. Once you get indexed by these, you will be in indexed by the rest.

Order of Submission - Primary Major Engines

1. Overture

If driving traffic to your site quickly is your main goal, then Overture is the place to start.  Assuming that you are willing to pay for traffic on a per-click basis, Overture can produce results in five days or less.  For this reason, we consider it to be the fastest way to test just about anything in regards to a sales site in our quest to develop winning keywords, sales-copy and sales conversion formulas.

Links to some of Overture's Site Match providers

http://www.positiontech.com
http://ov.ineedhits.com/
http://prioritysubmit.com
http://infospider.com/
http://marketleap.com
http://content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/sm.jhtml

2.  Google AdWords

Once again, if driving traffic to your site quickly is your main goal, then there's nothing faster than paying for inclusion.  Google AdWords can have you receiving traffic in as little as a single day after activating your account and detailing your ad.

3.  Google (main engine)

If "free" is your primary criteria, then Google is the place to start.  Keep in mind, however, that ranking at Google depends greatly on how many inbound links a page has.   Therefore, it is realistic to expect that the longer your page is on the web, the more links it will accumulate and, therefore, the better Google will rank it.  This is a generalization but for the most part, it is true.

(Search engines that also use Google's database are Netscape and others)
http://www.google.com/addurl.html

4.  Yahoo

What was the inktomi database is now the Yahoo Search Engine which currently provides results for: Yahoo, MSN,, espotting, Goo, About and Hotbot.  There is no guarantee that Yahoo's free Search Engine will index your site.  However, if your site is new or if it isn't yet indexed, there is no harm in using their AddURL.  Your best bet is to pay for inclusion through Overture mentioned above.

http://submit.search.yahoo.com/

6.  Ask Jeeves / Teoma

Ask Jeeves is working hard to play catch up with Google and Yahoo in the arena of organic search results. They recently acquired search assets that (they say) gives them 7% of the overall search market.  Although, that may not seem like a lot., it's much more than any of the other self-driven search portals can claim outside of the Yahoo properties and Google.  Pricing is $30 annually for your firs URL (web page) and $18 for each page thereafter.

Understanding Share Of Visits

Share Of Visits: Search Sites, April 2004

The chart below shows the share of all visits made to both search and portal web sites by US web surfers during April 2004. The chart only shows sites that are search-oriented. Portal-oriented sites are listed further below.

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