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Studies shown that the search
engines are the #1 or #2 way that people find websites. Therefore it is
critically important to build websites that incorporate elements that achieve a
high ranking in search engine listings. According to a survey done by
PCDataOnline this is how people find sites:
| Search Engines/Portals |
48.2% |
| Bookmarks |
24.0% |
| Typing in the URL directly |
20.3% |
| Page Links |
6.3% |
| Banner Advertisements |
1.3% |
searchenginecolossus.com
international Directory of Search Engines. Gain quick, efficient access to hundreds of search engines from around the world!
Search Engines - click on any of the links
below to add url.
NOTE: Search engine technology changes
as am writing, so most technique will not work
- AolNetfind.com has recently
switched over to Open Directory Project. Who power secondary
results?
- AskJeeves -
index power by directhit.com. Learn
more about ask.com.
- Google
becoming a search engine of choice. Is default search
engine for yahoo.com, not a search engine to ignore.
Ranking base on Link Popularity. Click
here to find out how to increase ranking.
- Altavista
top 3 search engine. Indexes webpages within 1 week. Quickest to
list any page around while other take up to 3 months. Click
here to learn how to submit properly.
- iwon.com
search result power by inktomi.com. Learn
more about iwon here.
- Lycos a really tricky search
engine to achieve ranking, Meta-Tags are ignore, only title and
first 150 character of body is index, however, it does support
ALT tags. Can take up to 1 year for site to be index. Read
me about lycos here.
- Fast Search
engine, learn how to increase
ranking.
- Excite
directory power by Looksmart.com. Excite only
support description Meta-Tags. Indexes only title,
description and body. Learn
how to to submit url to Excite here.
- Anzwers
- Hotbot Learn
more about hotbot.com
- Go InfoSeek learn
more about go/infoseek.com
- Inktomi.com
heavy weight player, so having your pages indexed and staying
index is a league of its own. Ranking is base on click
popularity. Learn
more here.
- RagingSearch.com
a direct competition to Google.com launch by Altavista.com a dedicated
search engine, no distracting banner ads in home page.
- InfoSpace
search result power by open directory.
- DirectHit
power search result for AskJeeves.com. Learn
how to increase page rank at Directhit.com
- Nothern Light
does not support metatags, indexes your title, and first 200
words in body. Find
out how to submit perperly here.
- Magellan
another causality
- WebCrawler
partner with looksmart to power there index. No longer accepting
url submission. Click here
to learn more about webcrawler.
Directories - Directories like Yahoo depends on humans editor to list all sites.
Meta-tags, are ignored. Submit a title and description with BEST KEYWORDS
that defines your site to the correct category for your entire site to be review
by a editor.
- About.com
- Yahoo.com
with over 40 million hits, can't be ignore, submitting correctly
is the key. Learn how to submit
to yahoo.com properly here. Used Google.com for no directory
results. Yahoo rank site according to click popularity.
- Dmoz.org [
Open Directory ] Largest volunteer human directory. Disadvantage
is the directory you submit it, the editor my be your competitor
and deny you listing for no reason require. Default directory
for Google.com, netscape.com and hotbot.com...... READ
MORE
- Snap.com
now know as NBCi.com another human power directory. Ranking is base on click
popularity, make your title and description stand out from your
competitors. Find out more
about snap submission here.
- LookSmart
to submit to looksmart.com you will have to find the category
your site belongs and submit within category by clicking on
SUBMIT A SITE. Looksmart no long offer free submit. $199 free
reviewer will review your site within 48 hours you will be
notified whether your site qualifies for inclusion in the
directory. For $49 reviewer will review your site within 8
weeks. Looksmart is default directory search for the following
search engines: Excite.com, MSN.com, CNN.com Altavista.com and
many other ISP partners. Read
MORE
- Go.com
both a index and a directory. Infoseek power go.com index
listing. Adding url to category is
quick and simple. Click here to
read more about GO.com url submission.
Pay to Click Search Engines.
payperclicksearchengines.com
- well organize site for pay per click search
engine comparison.
- Goto - bid on selected
keywords and rank according to bid amount. Being listed top 10
is sufficient. Partner with Earthlink, AOL, AskJeeves and
MORE...... Click here to
learn more about go2.com
- FindWhat - bid on keywords. Much
lower traffic than Goto.com. Findwhat.com does not require
editor approval for keywords.
- Brainbox.com
pay as low as .001 per click.
- Rocketlink
now know as Bay9.com - Really poor
traffic, but 10x cheaper to bid on generic keywords, like
business, e-commerce and cash.
- Netflip - pay to click search
engine. Netflip.com pays there user a percent of bid term for
searching. (not recommended, fraud alert)
- Searchhound
pay per click, only allow to bid on first 5 listing for any
given keywords. Secondary search is from searchhound index, all
site are listed at random. Click
here for to bid on key words at Searchound.
- 7Search
pay per ranking search engine. Uses a meta crawler for no bid
results.
- OneSearch
- SimpleSearch
pay per click, bid on top keywords for only one cent. Uses
directhit.com for non bid searches.
- ePilot.com
- paying user 3 cent a search. Uses Findwhat.com for
no bid results.
- godado(UK)
- ColarStamps
stop offering pay per click. Default search by Fast.com
- eFind.com - rewarding
user to search
- Sprinks.com
run by about.com.
- Win4Win.com
bid on keyword for higher placement.
- SearchGalore
pay per click, not an active website. If no bid on keywords no
result for search will appear.
- ustarthere.com
What is a Meta Search Engine? A Meta Search
Engine is a website where you can run a single search and it searches all the
major search engine's databases on the web and then gives you the best results
on a single page.
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