Where to submit your website to

Friday, March 24, 2006

Following up my post about how to generate and submit sitemaps to Google and Yahoo!, I was asked where to submit your sites in general. I wholeheartedly recommend the list below, and of course, there are many more places - just don't fall for the "Submit Your Site to 80,000 Search Engines". Firstly ask whether there really are that many search engines and secondly, if so, what sort of quality are they and finally, do you want to be associated with them?

Google
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Yahoo! (Registration required)
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

MSN
http://search.msn.co.uk/docs/submit.aspx
http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm

ExactSeek Family (E-mail address required)
http://www.exactseek.com/add.html

About.com
See http://a-zlist.about.com/ and contact the guide directly. Tends to be non-commercial sites only.