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Add Url - Individual Submission
Access the 10 top Free add url sites in order of importance
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This is the only way to be certain that your url is added and some engines will not except multiple add url programs! The table below is in the order of importance of the search engines. Click each to go directly to the add-url pages. Our Add-Url ranking is based on the most up-to-date information we can find. We strive to anticipate the trends so that you do not have to come back and change your site or revise your submission policy. The table below will make it clear to you the ever increasing incestuous relationships between the search tools. It can still sometimes be avantagous (and they will not penalise you) to add your url to various incarnations of the same directory or spider. For instance it has been much quicker to add your url and get into Excite using excite.canada (bot of page) than excite itself. You will see that we rank Google & AOl & MSN before Yahoo - you will want to see why. You will see that although they do not have rows to themselves the Inktomi search engine - click here - (2) |
Follow the numbers for - the top 10 - Free add url sites
in order of importance
| Search Engine - click to Add-url / Site Submission |
Share of All Searches Made | Spider Results Shared With : | Related Directory | Directory Shared With |
Google (3) Our top choice because 1. Large share (version used by Yahoo) 2. Becoming top referrer for many sites 3. Fast to accept sites 4. Fast to promote sites 5. still FREE (whereas yahoo now insists on their fast route and you HAVE to pay) |
14.0% | Yahoo / AOL-Netscape | <- shares its results with | <- shares its results with |
| MSN Search (Looksmart Directory charges for inclusion) (bCcentral Inktomi Search Index - free inclusion- (2) above) |
35.4% | Inktomi Shares results with: MSN Search also Hotbot Canada.com Anzwers |
MSN Directory (Part of Looksmt Netwrk fees charged) |
Looksmart Network: MSN Search Excite@Home AltaVista Netscape-Netcenter |
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AOL Search (Only uses Inktomi - free -if Open Directory - http://www.dmoz.org - is empty ) (1) and (2) above) |
5.6% | From Inktomi | Dmoz Directory | Dmoz Directory: AOL Search Netscape Search Hotbot Lycos Direct Hit |
(Directory) - (Searches also bring back Google Results) commercial sites HAVE to pay now there is longer any free route But yahoo will still accept your site without payment if it is non-commercial there some evidence that a much quicker route is through Yahoo! Canada who also put your site in the main Yahoo directory they say "Yahoo! Canada gives priority to sites with content specific to Canada " but do not exclude non-canadian sites! |
24.4% | Fetches results from Google | Yahoo is a directory | none |
AltaVista (4) (Still Free and Fast) |
4.1% | none | Looksmart Directory | Looksmart Network: MSN Search Excite®Home AltaVista Netscape-Netcenter |
Find paid "list your site" link bottom of the page that opens. Non-paid results come from Inktomi - top |
2.6% | From Inktomi | Goto is a directory | Results share with many |
| Search Engine - click to Add-url / Site Submission |
Share of All Searches Made | Spider Results Shared With : | Related Directory | Directory Shared With |
Dogpile (No submission - Searches other Search Engines) |
2.3% | Gets its Results from the other Engines | none | none |
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Netscape Search Owned by America Online - Free - Combines the Dmoz directory and Google search technology |
2.1% | No longer Excite Powered | Dmoz Directory | Dmoz Directory: Netscape Search AOL Search Hotbot Lycos Direct Hit |
Excite (5) - free route - Owned by @home |
1.9% | Swallowed Web Crawler (from which it gets its results) and Magellan (which it closed) not longer powers AOL Search (Netfind) |
Looksmart | Excite@Home uses Looksmart Dir. |
CNET Search.com (You can't submit as they get their results from (they say) 800 specialized engines) |
1.3% | Gets its Results from the other Engines | none |
none |
Lycos (6) (free -spider- includes directory results from Dmoz) |
1.1% | Get Sec results from Fast It Swallowed Hotbot which it runs seperately |
Gets Primary results from Dmoz | Dmoz Directory: Netscape Search AOL Search Hotbot Lycos Direct Hit |
Metacrawler (Does not accept url's itself - it searches Altavista, Looksmart, Lycos, GoTo, Direct Hit, Google, and Infoseek. ) |
0.9% | Metacrawler spider shared with Dogpile | Owened by go2net/Infospace which is a Looksmart 'partner' | None |
Hotbot (7) - free - |
0.8% | Gets its results from Direct Hit and Inktomi | Gets its directory information from the Open Directory | Dmoz Directory: Netscape Search AOL Search Hotbot Lycos Direct Hit |
NBCi (Was Snap) (No longer Free - directs you to goto's fee paying route) |
0.7% | none | GoTo | GoTo |
DirectHit (8) (Free - spidered search index) To rank its sites it Counts the clicks (hits) on the sites on its results pages uses the |
0.7% | Hotbot | Owned by Ask Jeeves who share some of its results | Dmoz Directory: Netscape Search AOL Search Hotbot Lycos Direct Hit |
LookSmart (Directory) - charges FEES - |
0.7% | Gets Sec results from Inktomi | Looksmart is the directory | Looksmart Network: MSN Search Excite®Home AltaVista Netscape-Netcenter |
Ask Jeeves (9) directory - applications received by email |
0.4% | Gets some of its results from DirectHit which it owns | It is a directory | none |
Mamma You can't submit as they get their results from other engines |
0.4% | Mamma shares its technology with countless large and small sites across the net | none | none |
Yahooligans! Free - Directory - must be geared for children 7 -12 |
0.3% | Directory | Yahoo | none |
Northern Light (10) - free submission - |
0.2% | none | none | none |
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