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As above.

I know there are some freeware or shareware programs that will do this for me, can anyone recommend one or two in the guise of links etc.

thanks.

Pete.

http://www.submitexpress.net/ (40 websites)
http://www.trafficattractor.com/ (a program where you can be submitted to 3,100 search engines)

Just make sure you put a little-used e-mail address in (or create a new one at Hotmail) as you will be spammed into oblivion :-)

Instead of using a website to join lots of search engines, you could just use meta tags, then people using every search engine will be able to find you.

View the source code of this site - these are the meta tags:

<meta name="description" content="DVD news, reviews, discussions and information.">
<meta name="keywords" content="dvd reviews, dvd news, region hacks, dvd, reviews, news, region, region 1, region 2, multi, region, hacks, views, information, dolby digital, digital, dolby, dd, 5.1, anamorphic, video, film, movie, uk, digital versatile disc">

Just change the content=" " of each.

I hope this helps,

xfilesgurly

Do these programs get you submitted to the big search engines like yahoo, google and lycos???

The top one is a web-based referral scheme and does get you referred to the better known search engines.

If you want to be number one you either have to have a lot of hits, a lot of links from other sites, good meta tags and (most important of all) money :-)

Personally, the number of hits I get doesn`t bother me : if one person every year benefits from the stuff on my site, I`ll be happy. Just so happens that about 1500 unique visitors a day tread the boards at `450 and that was mainly built up by word of mouth and posting on related sites :-)

This item was edited on Thursday, 8th August 2002, 22:38

Why not submit yourself to the Open Directory Project? (www.dmoz.org) Most search engines trawl through it so you don`t need to submit to everything.

Takes about 8-10 weeks to get your listing though.

I spent 4 weeks searching for submission tools and submitting my site. Then I found this site: http://www.selfpromotion.com - go there and read everything on it.

To summarise the single most important piece of information: get yourself listed on the yahoo directory. That, followed by dmoz is crucial. It took me 6 days to get listed on yahoo and on the day it appeared my hits went from 300 per day to 3000. That was one week ago; they`re now at 8000 and rising. Most major search engines use these two directories as their primary source. Google takes 2-3 months to first pick up a site (I`m still waiting). Altavista, however, has already put me at #1 (ahead of the official website).

The downside to all this? I need to up my hosting fee to pay for the extra bandwidth! My site is http://www.norahjones.info

To refer to an earlier post - metatags are important - most search engines rely on them, some insist. However, your site still has to be submitted or cross-linked from an already-searched site (e.g. yahoo, dmoz) to be found.

This item was edited on Friday, 9th August 2002, 12:41