This page was designed to help you submit your own web pages to the top search engines. Each search engine has different criteria and rules and it is important that you follow these rules if you want to succeed in your submissions. The link next to each search engine will take you to that search engine's home page. The information provided under each search engine is a basic guide of it's criteria. Pay close attention to any penalties. The link at the end of each section will take you to a page we have created to help you submit to the top search engines.
WEBility takes no responsibility for wrongly submitted pages or it's out come.
Alta Vista -- http://www.altavista.digital.com
Indexed Pages: Approx. 30 Million
Frame Support: Alta Vista does NOT support Frame style pages
Meta Tag Support: YES -- and it is important that you use a Meta Description tag
for Alta Vista to accurately summarize your page
Database Refresh: Monthly
Average Submission Time: 1 to 3 days (slow at end of May)
To submit a page to Alta Vista
click here:
Excite - http://www.excite.com
Indexed Pages: Approx. 55 Million
Frame Support: Excite DOES support Frame style pages
Meta Tag Support: NO
Accepts multiple <TITLE>s: YES
Database Refresh: Weekly (so they say but evidence indicates otherwise)
Average Submission Time: 6 weeks
Keyword Concentrations in <body text>: 3% to 7%
Keyword in URL Significant: Yes
Keyword Order: Not significant ("hawaii travel" and "travel
hawaii" are the same)
To submit a page to Excite click here:
Then, at the very bottom center, click "add site"
Next, add each URL that you wish to register one at a time. You can also choose to enter the "optional" in the form directly below the web site submission fields.
Tip: after you register, use the "back" button on your browser to get back to the registration page. Then you can simply enter copy and paste (from your text editor) the next URL, and so on until you have completed registering all the URL's in your web site.
HotBot -- http://www.hotbot.com
Indexed Pages: Approx. 55 million
Frame Support: Hot Bot does NOT support Frame style pages
Meta Tag Support: YES
Database Refresh:
Average Submission Time: 1-2 Days
To submit a page to HotBot click here:
Infoseek - http://www.infoseek.com
Indexed Pages: Approx. 30 Million
Frame Support: Infoseek DOES support Frame style pages
Meta Tag Support: YES... be sure to use <Meta>'s for your summary
Database Refresh: every 3 weeks, (so they say)
Last known update: N/A – instant submit
Average Submission Time: Usually 2 - 10 minutes, but can take up to 3 days.
Penalties:
Do not repeat any keyword in the keyword <meta> tag.
Do not use the exact same <bgcolor> value as the <font
color> value.
Don't use the <meta> refresh tag or server side redirects.
Submit your pages slowly, avoid using "high speed" automatic
submission tools.
Don't submit a page more than once in a 24hr period.
Pages with hidden text will be removed IF observed by Infoseek's
"Spam Force."
To submit a page to Infoseek click here:
On the bottom of the page, there is a list of links, click "add site".
When you get to the "add site" page, read their info. You will find that registering with Infoseek is simply a matter of filling in the box and adding your URL's one at a time.
Infoseek now has an easy way to check the status of any URL that you have already submitted to their index... http://www.infoseek.com/AddUrl?pg=CheckURLStatus.html
Indexed Pages: Approx. 30 Million
Frame Support: Lycos DOES support Frame style pages
Meta Tag Support: No
Accepts multiple <TITLE>s: YES -- but no evidence that it improves position
Database Refresh: 2 weeks
Submission Time: 1 - 5 weeks (Lycos is getting quicker, we have seen some changes in
two days time frame)
To submit a page to Lycos click here:
Lycos has one of the most "friendly" submit pages on the Internet. Be sure to read the information on this page.
You will also find that Lycos has a very "user friendly" way to find out if your URL is in their catalog... it is on the same page as the "submit" page and easy to use.
Northern Light – http://www.northernlight.com
Indexed Pages: Approx. 50 Million
Frame Support: Northern Light does not appear to support Frame style pages
Meta Tag Support: NO
Accepts multiple <TITLE>s: None found in top searches
Database Refresh: Monthly
Case Sensitive: Yes
Word Stemming: No (a search for "tool" and "tools" will give
different results)
Average Submission Time: In the past, 3 weeks. Now slower
To submit a page to Northern
Light click here:
WebCrawler - http://www.webcrawler.com
Indexed Pages: Approx. 2 Million
Frame Support: WebCrawler does NOT support Frame style pages
Meta Tag Support: None at this time
Database Refresh: Monthly (so they say)
Average Submission Time: 6-12 weeks
WebCrawler is owned by Excite and is obviously using a very similar ranking criteria when compared to Excite. On many searches we've found that the result listings for both single and multiple keyword searches are almost exactly the same as the results for Excite. The index, however, seems to be a much smaller copy of the larger one at Excite, many pages that show up in the Excite index don't show up in the WebCrawler index. So, in general, you are dealing with almost the same ranking system as Excite but with a much smaller index of pages. We do know that Webcrawler is using Excite's spider to index the pages, or it is sharing the same database information.
Submitting to WebCrawler
WebCrawler recently updated their "help getting listed page", most notably the following information was published:
Submit your main URL and those of the main sections of your site
WebCrawler strives to present users with the greatest possible breadth of
search results listings, rather than trying to index every document of every Web site we
know about. Unlike some others, our robot spider doesn't necessarily "dig down"
to index every page on your site, although it does traverse links recursively to save them
for future exploration.
We strongly encourage you to submit your main URL (also known as a site's "root" or "index" URL) to us, as well as your site's main subsidiary pages, and not every single document of your site, especially if it is a matter of hundreds or even of thousands of URLs. Please do not submit more than 25 URLs for any given server. Cases in which WebCrawler receives disproportionate numbers of submissions for the same Web site will be subject to automated and/or human review, and will be processed as WebCrawler sees fit.
To submit a page to WebCrawler click here:
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