Submitting To Yahoo
Yahoo is an important crawler-based search engine because many people use the Yahoo site and it provides main results of several other services
As covered with Google, building links is the best way to get listed for free. Yahoo also offers a free URL submission form that you'll find listed on yahoo website.
What if you aren't picked up for free? Yahoo has paid inclusion programs that guarantee to add the pages you submit quickly. The downside to these programs is that you'll be charged every time someone clicks on your listing. If you run out of money, potentially, your listing may be dropped. However, there's still a chance that even if you run out of money, you might continue to be listed for free.
Confused? You're to be forgiven, if so. The programs are so complex that beginners are not recommended to bother with them. Instead, there's a good chance that many pages in your site will just naturally get listed for free.
By the way, Yahoo's crawler incorporates technology from three different crawlers that it purchased in 2002 and 2003: Inktomi, AltaVista and FAST's AllTheWeb. Any references you hear about those crawlers are now superceded by the single Yahoo crawler that operates.
Submitting To Teoma
Teoma is an important crawler-based search engine because it powers the main of the results that appear at the popular Ask Jeeves web. In fact, Ask Jeeves owns Teoma.
Teoma has no free Add URL page. This doesn't mean that you can't get listed, however. Teoma crawls the web, so if you have links pointing at your web site, you may get included naturally
Submitting To MSN
MSN Search is an important crawler-based search engine used by many people. It is currently powered by Yahoo's crawler-based results. However, by the end of 2004, a new crawler-based search engine being developed by Microsoft should be taking over.
That new Microsoft search engine is already available to the public in a limited fashion. |
