How to get Listed in almost all Search Engines...
Submit your site to the ODP
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ODP - A Search Engine, but not...
The Open Directory Project (ODP) is the easiest, quickest, cheapest way to get your site listed in just about all of the search engines. ODP is a free service, but they are very strict about submissions, and you may only submit one page. Every submission is actually viewed by a human when submitted to the ODP. This site is now owned by AOL, and the site states that the ODP is a directory, not a search engine. Click to read their submission guidelines at dmoz.org. Take time to browse their site, as several categories may work for your company, but you may only choose one.
Part of their information states:
If your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, Google, Netscape Search, Yahoo Search, and hundreds of other sites. We make updates of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own update schedule.
I don't know of any major search engines that don't update at least once/month, but you can see how timing can make a difference. If you don't want to wait "2 weeks to several months," you can submit your site directly to the search engine(s) where you want to be listed. (See major search engines section.)
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Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) simply means that you've optimized your pages so that the search engine's robots will pull all of the relevant information (both elements that are visible on the page displays and from the code not displayed) from your pages so that users will find you.
Each search engine uses it's own proprietary process to determine which of the various elements on your web page - content, keywords, meta tag programming, internal/external links, robot instructions, age of page, site structure, affiliated advertiser - are used to produce the exact order of each search request.
Let McDel search engine optimize your web pages and submit your site for you. Request sample search results.
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Major Search Engines*
Links to Submit your Site
or How They get your Site Info
Before you submit your site, most of the search engine and/or directory sites ask you to do a search on your company name and your domain name to see if you're already listed in their database. Some of these listings are free; others require payment!
If you want your site listed in the "sponsored results" on search engine pages, you will need to enter into an advertising agreement with the respective site(s).
Let McDel optimize your pages and submit your site for you. Request sample SEO results.
*the ownership of the search engines is an ongoing process! This information current in 2006.
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How Most Search Engines Work
Most of the major search engines pull at least some information from your Open Directory Project (ODP) listing. They also use robots (spiders & crawlers are the same thing) - which is a computer program that pulls information from the meta tags and the pages - including your keywords - and from the robots file on your site. Then, the robot reports the data received from this automated examination of your site to the database and what that search engine has already compiled for you (or adds you to their database).
 Each search engine uses it's own proprietary process to determine which of the various elements on your web page - content, keywords, meta tag programming, internal/external links, robot instructions, age of page, site structure, affiliated advertiser - are used to produce the exact order of each search request.
When a user types in keywords to "do a search," the results are displayed based on the relevance of the information in the database (about your pages) to the keywords requested.
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