Adding Your Web Site to the Search Engine

All search engines enable Web authors to add the URL of their own Web site to the search engine. Most of them do this with some type of online form. A link to Google's Advertising Programs page (http://www.google.com/submit_content.html) appears at the bottom of every Google page. (See Figure 16.2.) As you can see, Google offers several ways to advertise your Web site through its free index, or you can submit your site to specific programs for a fee. Just choose the right option for you.

Figure 16.2. Google's Advertising page enables you to add your Web page to the Google index.

Yahoo!'s Suggest a Site page (http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html) offer similar flexibility (see Figure 16.3).

Figure 16.3. Yahoo!'s Suggest a Site page enables provides option for submitting your Web site.

Tip

Some Web sites offer to add your URL to many (if not all) search sites with one form. Companies such as Add Me (http://www.addme.com/submission.htm), for instance, charge a fee for this convenience. However, you probably want to add your own site information to the most popular search sites (Yahoo!, Excite, AltaVista, Lycos, LookSmart, and Go.com) to assure yourself the best chance of being found.