Free Submissions

Which engines still offer free submissions?

[Cheree_D]

With all the recent changes, I can't figure out which engines allow you to submit for free. I have submitted to Yahoo, Google, DMOZ, but who else am I missing?

I tried to submit to Teoma/Ask Jevees and Looksmart but they both appear to be paid inclusion only. Is this true?

I understand that if I have incoming links to my site, that I will be picked up by Teoma. Which other engines work like this? (That is, no free submission, but inbound links get you in the back door.)

Who should I be hand-submitting to these days?

Thanks for any advice.

[hannamyluv]

No one, actually. All of the major search engines now catalog what they find by link and frequently faster than if you hand submit.

Now, the directories (DMOZ) are different. You do need to hand submit there, but DMOZ is the only major one that is free and worth the time to hand submit.

[Web_Savvy]

I understand that if I have incoming links to my site, that I will be picked up by Teoma. Which other engines work like this?

Google :)
Yahoo (and their other properties : Altavista, Alltheweb...)
MSN
.... I'm probably missing others here, I'm sure other members will fill them in.

inbound links get you in the back door

Many here believe that letting the SE spiders 'discover' your site (via inbound links) is at least somewhat better than handsubmitting.

Hope this helps.

[Cheree_D]

Thanks guys for the feedback so far. I always thought to optimize my web page first and submit it to the engines, wait a few weeks, and in the meantime, collect a few links. But it seems I should get busy acquiring inbound links as soon as possible, then optimize my site and submit. Or at least start the process of getting links to get the ball rolling (since this is the time consuming part) and optimize at the same time.

Still trying to get a good implementation process for SEO.

Thanks for the feedback.

[simonuk]

Once you have one web site that is well indexed the need to submit to anything else other than DMOZ is not needed.

I add a link for the new site on 1 to 5 older sites and normally within a few days they start crawling the new site.

Getting external links is now a much faster way of getting a new site seen.

[0pn1]

Free submissions are still available and even though some people are saying - don't bother. Use every source you can find even one clickthrough from these sources could be a potential guest/client or sell.

The best site I have found for a list of free submission search engines in one place is www.<snip>
They have a nice little list of search engines that still allow free submission.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 3:28 pm (utc) on Sep. 30, 2004]