Free Search Engine Submission to the Major Search Engines

You should start your search engine submission process by submitting your web site to the major directories and crawler-based search engines that allow free submission. With the industry consolidation, this has now become a simple process. Just submit your site to Google, Live Search, Yahoo, and the Open Directory and you’ve got free search engine submission covered. To get good results after submission, spend some time and money for Pay-per-click and search engine Optimization.

Google is the most popular search engine on the Internet.  The best way to ensure a high listing on Google is for your page to be linked to from many other relevant web sites. Google's robots jump from page to page on the Web via links, so the more sites that link to you, that is, the higher your Link Popularity, the more likely it is that you will have a high ranking. Go to our Search Engine Optimization page for more information on getting a high search engine ranking on Google and other search engines.

Live Search is now doing its own crawling. You can submit your site to it for free.

You can now get listed in Yahoo for free since its default search results come from crawling web sites. Since Yahoo now owns Alltheweb, AltaVista, and Inktomi make sure you submit your site to Yahoo.

Getting listed in the Open Directory Project is a multi-step process, but well worth your time as many search engines get results from these pages. You should first read the Instructions on how to add your site. Then look at the categories in the directory to decide which one you would like your site to be listed in. To add your site use the Add URL link on the directory page you would like your site to be included in.

Once you have Optimized your pages for the crawler-based search engines its time to consider Pay-per-click search engine submission.