Search Engine Submission URLs for Site Promotion

Engine Submission URLs for Site Promotion
It's a continual battle to get your site indexed and stay indexed on the major search engines. You need to resubmit it once a month. For convenience, this page lists the AddURL pages of the major search companies.

AltaVista

http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=addurl

Google

http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Excite

http://www.excite.com/info/add_url_form

Go (also does infoseek). Add a slash (/) at the end of your URL.

http://www.go.com/AddUrl?pg=SubmitUrl.h ... OC_Add_url

Northern Light

http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html

Lycos

http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html

Hotbot (possibly the best way to get noticed by inktomi, which doesn't have a submit URL page, is to submit to Hotbot).

http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp

Direct Hit (influences Hotbot and MSN)

http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html

AllTheWeb (including Fast, influences Lycos)

http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3

Canada.com (appears to influence Hotbot). Has two confirmation buttons in sequence.

http://www.canada.com/search/web/addurl.asp

Directories

It's pretty much essential to submit to these three directories. You should only need to do it once, except for Yahoo! (try resubmitting about every three months). For each directory, go to the correct category page for your site and from there click on Add URL.

Open Directory Project (used by Google, Netscape and many more)

http://www.dmoz.org

Looksmart

http://www.looksmart.com/

Yahoo!

http://www.yahoo.com/

Snap is also a worthwhile directory, but cheekily it forces you to register before submitting.

http://www.snap.com/