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In This Chapter:
Overview
The Submit Site to Search Engines option is a powerful tool
that allows you to quickly list your website on some of the
most popular web search indexes. These web search indexes
include:
- Infoseek
- Webcrawler
- Alta Vista
- Lycos
- Excite
- Hot Bot
- Infoseek Ultra
- Yahoo!
- Netfind
- Magellan
- What You Seek
- Infospace
- New Riders Yellow Pages
Submitting your website to search engines is an effective
way of ensuring that the site you create gets its optimal
audience and web traffic.
While you can submit your site to search engines without
the aid of this option, it can be a very time consuming process.
The automated process makes search engine submissions a quick
and easy one.
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How To Submit
Your Site to Search Engines
When you select the Submit Site to Search Engines option
from your control panel, the Search Engine Submission utility
will appear.
Fill out the information in the form on the top left frame,
beginning with URL, Title of your site and E-mail Address.
All fields in this form must be completed. When you have complete
all fields, click on the "Spool URL" button to continue.
The top left frame displays two buttons: "Go to Next
Form" and "Submit to search
engine" where search engine
is the name of the current engine that you are submitting
to.
If you wish to submit your site to the search engine named
on this button, then click it. That search engine’s
submission page will display in the in the bottom left frame.
Follow the instructions listed on this search engine’s
submission page.
When you have completed the requirements described on the
search engine’s submission page, click on the "Go
To Next Form" button in the top left frame. You may also
use this button if you would like to skip a particular search
engine. A new site will be listed on the "Submit to Search
Engine" button.
Repeat this procedure until you have exhausted the list
of all the search engines.
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