Step # 5: SUBMISSIONS TO SEACH ENGINES & DIRECTORIES

Website can be submitted to two kinds of search locations

• search engine
• online directories

looksmart, dmoz and yahoo are online human edited directories. You have to fill out the submission form.

But first we understand the search engine submission.

Go to any search engine and click the link "submit your site". That will take you to the form where you only have to enter the url or address of your website then click the submit button. Your site will be indexed with search engines. Results will be obtained according to your tagging which we did in step 4.

Directory submission is a bit more complicated as you have to chose exactly the relivent category according to your product/ website.

For the submission of cotton yarn site I would follow the following path in yahoo. You can chose the category as per your product.

• www.yahoo.com
• business & economy
• business to business
• industries
• textile
• manufacturers
• cotton

I recommend the following search engines and online directories to submit your site with..,

Yahoo is online directory which is organized by categories.
How to Submit

• Regular (free of charge & 8 weeks required for listing)
• Business Express ( $ 199 one time non refundable; 7 day guranteed review, recommended)

MSN is a search engine which does not take free submissions
How to Submit

• Basic Submit ($149 one time , it takes 8 weeks to index the sites)
• Express Submit ( $ 299 one time non refundable; 2 day guranteed review, recommended)

Lycos is a search engine, submission is free.
How to Submit

• Free Submission (free of charge & 8 weeks required for listing)
• Dmoz Results ( display some results from dmoz online directory)

Excite is a search engine which does not take free submissions.
How to Submit

• Basic Submit ($149 one time , it takes 8 weeks to index the sites)
• Express to Submit ( $ 299 one time non refundable; 2 day guranteed review, recommended)

Altavista is a search engine which is the partner of looksmart.
How to Submit

• Basic Inclusion (free of charge & 6 weeks required for listing)
• Business Inclusion ( $ 199 one time non refundable; 7 day guranteed review, recommended)

Google is online directory which is organized by topics.
How to Submit

• Regular (free of charge & 8 weeks required for listing)
• Provide secondary resultsto Yahoo

Looksmart is online directory which is organized by categories.
How to Submit

• Submissions ( $ 199 one time non refundable; 2 day guranteed review)
• It provides results to Altavista, Excite, MSN & Iwon

dmoz is online directory which is organized by categories.
How to Submit

• Regular submission in categories (free of charge & 8 weeks required for listing)
• It provides results to Lycos, Hotbot, AOL, some results to Google also.

AOL is online directory which is organized by categories.
How to Submit

• Regular (free of charge & 8 weeks required for listing)
• It depends heavily on dmoz directory indexing

Netscape is a search engine & affiliated with dmoz.
How to Submit

• Regular (free of charge & 8 weeks required for listing)
• Site is submitted in dmoz directory

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