subject: Are you listed in the Top Search Results? Website Submission Facts [print this page] Over 90% of US search engine traffic is driven by Yahoo! or Google owned search technology - source: Search Engine Watch. Additionally Ask Jeeves owns around 5% of the traffic. You may hear the names of many other search engines, but most of them are powered by the above search engines in one way or another. For example, Yahoo! owns Inktomi,AltaVista, and AllTheWeb.
What are Meta Search Engines?
Meta search engines do not crawl the web, but combine the results of other search engines. If you are listed in the top few engines then you will also appear in meta search results. Vivisimo is an example of a meta search engine.
Search Engine Submission Software
There is no reason to purchase search engine submission software. Any search engine worth being listed in will usually list your site if you get just a few incoming links. Also people who claim to resubmit your site monthly are trying to take advantage of you. Search engines will keep your site in their index if you have a few decent inbound links.Most people do not even submit sites to search engines anymore, but here are links to the only five search engine submission pages we potentially use.
Free Search Engine Submission
Most people rarely submit pages to search engines since they know these engines will follow links and index the pages (that is what search engines do). Anyone who tries to sell you submission software is ripping you off. If you want to submit your site (please note submission does not guarantee inclusion) then these are the locations where you can.
Submit to Google (free) - powers around half of US based web search.
Submit to Yahoo! (free) - powers over 40% of US based web search. Requires a free Yahoo! id. Yahoo! also has a paid inclusion program by the name of Overture Site Match.
Submit to Ask Jeeves / Teoma ($30) - powers around 5% of web search. Ask Jeeves / Teoma is the only major search engine which does not have a free site submit option. Eventually (usually around 1.5 months) they will list your site in their search results if you have a few inbound links.
Submit to Gigablast (free) - powers a much small percentage of search than the other engines, but it is quick to index pages when the site submit is working. Directory Submission Directories are human compiled search engines. They generally each have their own specific focus and taxonomy. By listing your site in a few directories you can ensure that
