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I will register your site using the Basic (free!) submission
forms on Google, Yahoo, and Open Directory. The Open
Directory includes other search engines such as Snap, Go, Lycos,
Excite and many others. However, I am not responsible
for how these search engines will rank your site in the listings.
Search engines each have their own formulas for determining
relevancy.
Registration on these sites can take 3-8 weeks before your site
will appear in the index of these directories. Many of these
sites also offer an "Express Registration" for a fee.
These fees can range from $30 up to $250 or $300. However,
your site would be indexed in two or three days. If you
decide to use Express Registrations on these sites, you will need
to do this yourself, as a credit card is required.
How do Search Engines
Work?
Search engines have 3 major elements. The first is the
"SPIDER" or "CRAWLER". After a web
site is registered for review, the spider will visit the site,
read it, and follow all the links to other pages within the site
and within the Internet. Your site has thus been "spidered"
or "crawled". The spider also returns to
the site every few months to look for changes.
The second part of the search engine is the INDEX.
Everything the spider finds while "crawling" your
site, goes into the index. The index is like a catalog
containing a copy of every page the spider finds. If a web
page changes, the catalog is updated on the spider's next visit. Sometimes
it can take a while for new pages to be added to the index.
Thus a web page may have been "spidered" but not yet
indexed. Until a web site is indexed, it is not available
to those searching with the search engine, although it IS
available to anyone who directly types in the URL.
The third element of a search engine is its SOFTWARE that
sifts through the millions of pages recorded in the index to
find matches to a search, ranking those matches in what it
feels is a relevant way. Not all search engines will index
the same sites, and each search engine has its own formula to
determine what are the most relevant matches. Therefore,
not all search engines will produce the same results.
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