JP Search engine submission tool

[johnhamman]

Is there a tool out there that is good for submiting to the asian, (preferably Japan),Search engines?
john

[daikon]

Yes. It's in your hand right now...click, click. :)

Goo Add URL [goo.ne.jp]

Google JP Add URL [google.co.jp]

Infoseek JP Add URL [infoseek.co.jp]

Lycos JP Add URL [search.lycos.co.jp]

And here is a Japanese search engine relationship chart [ejapaninc.com].

[bill]

johnhamman, I think daikon has the right idea...but I get the feeling that you're looking for one of those automated site submission software packages. I haven't used any, so I wouldn't be the best person to ask... I've heard that SubmitWolf works with a few Japanese engines.

Here are a few more SEs you can submit Japanese pages to by hand:

alltheweb [alltheweb.com]
AltaVista [addurl.altavista.com]
FreshEye [fresheye.com]

if you're motivated and aren't looking to spend money, then these directories are worth a submission:

All About Japan [allabout.co.jp]
DMOZ [dmoz.org]

of course you can also pay to get Japanese content listed here:

Yahoo Japan [yahoo.co.jp]
LookSmart Japan [submitasite.jp.btlooksmart.com]

[johnhamman]

Hey guys, Thanks for the links. First of all let me start by saying that i beleive the best way to submit is by hand. Haveing said that, this is very difficult if you cant read Japanesse. i basicly have to translate each page as i go thru babelfish or whatnot and its anoying. I was hoping that there was a software package out there like webpossition pro that would speed up my task at hand. By the way. Im sure this will sound silly but, will the search engines in JP read english metatags? or should i stick with the JP language tags? and will it hurt the site if its on a server in the US, but with a .jp domain?
john

thanks again

[bill]

johnhamman I thought that's what you were looking for ;)

I looked thru Google for submission software packages in Japanese. Although a lot of the stuff looked like fly-by-night SEO spam, there are a few Japanese language programs that appear to do what you want...however, you'd have to run them on a Japanese OS, and it sounds like you're in the market for an English solution...There's not too much available on that end from what I saw. Maybe you could get someone to code you a solution. There really aren't that many Japanese robot driven SEs left anyway ;)

will the search engines in JP read english metatags

The engines that take meta tags into consideration are dwindling, and the ones that do really aren't going to bring you that much traffic anyway. That said, I'd say that if you're fishing for Japanese traffic, you'd better have Japanese content. Targeting Japanese visitors with English sites will most likely bring only a trickle of traffic.

will it hurt the site if its on a server in the US, but with a .jp domain?

I think I remember that there were a few experimental robot driven SEs that only crawled Japan based IPs...but that was a few years back. I haven't heard of any recent limitations to the physical location of your host. As long as the DNS propagates, I think you're safe hosting anywhere you like.

[negubon]

Trellian software has
submitwolfJP
[trellian.com...]
You may want to try this.

peace.

[takah]

I sometimes uses submitwolf jp, and it works well. You can also try TopDog (http://www.topdog.com/ ). TopDog supports some Japanese search engines.