How to get listed?

Don't wait to be discovered! Submit your URL directly to the search engine or directory.

Search Engine submissions.
There are two ways to submit to search engines and directories, manually or using an automated submission tool. Here is a summary of both methods.

Manual Submission - Use the Add URL form from the search engine site itself. This way, you have absolute control over where your site is submitted. However, this process is that it is a very time consuming and labor intensive activity. Some search engines bury their Add URL form so far down in the site that one wonders if they are intentionally trying to thwart potential applicants.  
Automated Submission Tool - Fill in the data once and the tool automatically submits your URL to multiple engines. It is a fast, easy one step process and you only have to fill in the data forms once. There are several features you should look for in an automated submission tool. The number one item of importance is to make sure the submission tool does not submit to directories. If you look down the list of places the tool submits and you see directories listed, leave and do not look back! You can be assured that our Search Engine Starter only submits to search engines. The second thing to look for in an automated submission tool is to find one that allows you to pick and choose which engines to submit to. If you are doing well in one engine, but not in another, you may want to submit to the search engine where you need improvement and not submit to the engine where you are doing well. Again, our Search Engine Starter provides the user the flexibility to submit any page on their Web site to their choice of 100 different search engines. Find a submission service that monitors search engine spam. Because most submission services submit to many search engines, you may receive spam email by some of the smaller engines that occasionally sell their email addresses.

Note: It is not the submission tool company that is selling the email addresses, it is the search engines themselves. Our Search Engine Starter will use an alternate email address when submitting your site. Additionally, Our SES monitors the search engines it submits to and purges spam-abusive engines from the submission list.

Bottom Line: Submit your site to directories by hand. Save time by using a submission tool to submit to search engines. How often do I submit? Your best strategy is to submit weekly until your site gets listed. Check your listing frequently. If your site disappears suddenly, you may be the victim of a search engine database omission. Search engines frequently have multiple versions of their databases and they aren't always in sync. You may be listed in one version of their database and not in another. Your only recourse is to resubmit your site. To see if you have even been picked up in a search engine, go to the search engine's site and do a search with your company's domain name as the search query.

Directory Submissions - Submitting to a directory is a much more involved specialized process. Don't do it in a rush and don't use an automated submission tool. The better submission tools, like Search Engine Starter, don't submit to directories. Visit our page on Registering Your Site With A Directory for more information. How long does it take to get listed? These times vary with search engines and directories. The search engines will optimistically report a very short time, but most sites get listed within the following times: Google 4 - 6 weeks Lycos 4 - 6 weeks WiseNut 6 weeks The reality is that most search engines and directories are very backlogged and slow to get listings added to their databases. Don't be surprised if you experience waits much longer than these. As mentioned earlier, you may wait over 5 months to see your site get listed on Yahoo!, if it gets listed at all. We recommend that if your site isn't listed within the time periods above, that you resubmit your site to the search engine where you are not listed. Is being listed in the search engines good enough? Unfortunately no. A listing won't automatically increase your traffic. A good ranking may. You want to be listed on the first three pages of the search engine results page. Most web surfers aren't patient enough to look more than the first 20-40 listed links. In fact there is a considerable drop off just going from the first to the second page.

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