* Free URL submission to Yahoo, Google, AltheWeb and AltaVista By Himadrish Laha

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Google / Yahoo / AOL

Submit to Google for free, and appear in the search results of Yahoo and AOL as well.

Only the top-level page from a site is necessary; you do not need to submit each individual page. Their crawler, Googlebot, will be able to find the rest

Find out when Google last indexed your site:

In the form below, replace allinurl:www.your-domain.com with your domain name:

On the results page click the link that reads ... Archived copy ... At the top of the resulting page the date is when it was last indexed

Google PageRank

To see any page's PageRank, you can either install the Google Toolbar, or if the site is listed at Open Directory, use this tool

PageRank is just one factor of many that needs to be looked at when optimizing a site for Google. PageRank is Google's method of measuring a page's"importance." When all other factors, such as the Title tag and keywords, are taken into account, Google uses PageRank to adjust results so sites that are more "important" will move up in the results page of a user's search

Google looks at which pages link to each other to determine this importance. If Page A links to Page B, then Page A is saying that Page B is an important page.

PageRank only looks at the voting ability of incoming links to a page, and how much they recommend that page.
Every page of a site can have a PageRank, not just the main page
You can pass PageRank to different pages of your own site through the internal linking structure of the various pages
Naming and titling hyperlinks using keyphrases is a separate thing from PageRank. Using keyphrases within your links may help with your search engine rankings, but not your PageRank.

The Google founders published their original research paper at Stanford

"The PageRank given to Page A by a Page B pointing to it is decreased with each link to anywhere that exists on Page B. That means a page's PageRank is essentially a measure of its vote; it can split that vote between one link or two links or many more, but its overall voting power will always be the same."

In other words, for PageRank purposes, it's better to have a page with only a few links on it pointing to your site, than a page with tons of links on it pointing to your site. If a page has a PageRank of seven (out of ten), and it's filled with many links to other sites, those other sites only get a tiny portion of that seven PR because the PageRank gets divided amongst all the links. So in effect, just because a page has a high PageRank, it doesn't mean it's the best one to be linked from.

Also read the very excellent advice of Brett Tabke, this enlightening Q&A with 2 Google employees (is actually in English below the introduction), WebRankInfo and all about theme pyramids

AlltheWeb

This Norwegian index is almost as good as Google.

AltaVista

Still one of the big guns, despite its tempermental ranking system. They let you pay to get listed faster
Free submission: You must visit this page. It's tedious, but helps reduce their spam problems

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Inktomi

This is the database that feeds iWon, 4anything, Overture, ICQ, LookSmart, MSN Search, Snap and soon Yahoo. Submitting to Hotbot is the simplest way of getting into Inktomi's index. Read the official guidelines on what they do and don't like.

ALERT: The main Hotbot site no longer accepts submissions, so I've changed it to their UK site still which still has a submission form but expect it to disappear soon, and don't rely on it working. It seems the only way now is to pay.

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Inktomi's ranking methods

Inktomi has created a Map of the Web that includes 1.7 billion documents. Through this web map, Inktomi selects data, which it includes in several databases. These are Best of Web (BOW), which is some 110 million documents, GEN3 which is around 500 million documents, their Eurocluster, which is 110 million documents and the Asia Pacific cluster (APAC) of around 55 million documents.

Aside from paid inclusion, Inktomi can find sites that are submitted through add URL pages via one of their search partners like HotBot. They can also find sites by crawling the web and following links. When a site is initially found (by whichever method), it usually winds up in the GEN3 database. If it has been submitted via a search partner as a free submission, the URL may be subject to a penalty - however, if the penalized URL is found later by Inktomi spiders crawling the web via another link the penalty is lifted. The GEN3 index is generally refreshed monthly.

The best way to become a BOW site is to have other BOW sites link to you. Although links from directories such as Yahoo, ODP and LookSmart are important and help - they will not guarantee inclusion. You need sites that are already in BOW to link to you, which are on a similar theme and of high stature.

Paid inclusion neither helps (nor hinders) inclusion into BOW. Selection is purely done on the "merit" of the site as viewed by Inktomi through its map of the Web. In many ways, this is similar to the way Google looks at sites through its PageRank system - but Inktomi's BOW is a slightly more "exclusive" club.

More on this topic at Jill Whalen's HighRankings.com - subscribe to her free newsletter High Rankings' Advisor here.

Some Tricks and Ideas

Create a site map - a simple page with text links to every other page in your site. Keep it up-to-date. Submit your site map each time, and the spiders will find everything
If your site map has over 100 links, break it into several pages (Google, for example, only looks at the first 100 links on a page)
Submit every time you update a page. For dynamic sites, trying submitting several days in a row, so the search engine can tell you have fresh content
Any site that promises to submit your site to thousands of search engines is a waste of time, and usually leads to lots of spam
Never pay for a submission service. Either do it easily through here (or the official Add URL pages), or use legitimate 3rd party paid submission services - see this page

Walhello

Mysterious new index with great results. Get listed - it is on its way up.

Non-English Indexes

The people of these countries use their own search engines a lot. Helps if your site is in their langauge, because they will be searching for keywords in their own language.

FRANCE - Caloweb, Lokace, Voila

GERMANY - Abacho, Acoon, Amadillo, Caloweb, Fireball, Lotse, Nathan, OnlinePilot, Speedfind, Tiger

JAPAN - Goo

SPAIN - Caloweb, Voila

Other Indexes

There isn't much point submitting to the smaller engines, but it's harmless if you have time on your hands.

Dead Engines

There is no point trying to submit to these search engines...

Excite - dead, now uses pay-per-click results
Direct Hit - replaced with Teoma
Northern Light - no longer available to the general public
Lycos - now use AlltheWeb's index

Banned?

For one reason or another your site might have been blacklisted. This can happen by accident, so contact these folk if your submissions aren't working (remember that some engines like AltaVista can take 6 months to update their index). Be patient - replying to you will not be a priority unless you have paid them for a listing.

AltaVista - send an online inquiry via their web based contact form
FAST/Alltheweb - try their feedback form
Google - email [email protected] with "reinclusion request" as the subject
Inktomi - send an email inquiry to: [email protected]. Inktomi covers a wide range of major search sites powered at least in part by their engine, including, HotBot, Looksmart, MSN, Overture, and others. See the current list of Inktomi partners

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