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Submitting Your Site To Search Engines

Has the number of visits to your web pages been a little low lately? If people who would like to see your site can't find it; it might be the reason. If that's the case, it is probably time to register your URL with some of the more popular search engines.

While it's possible to visit the search engines individually, you can save time by using one of the many free URL submission tools on the Web to add tour site.

Here's how to use Add Me to assist in registering your personal site with 34 search engines, including AltaVista, Excite, InfoSeek, Yahoo and others:

1. Prepare your site with the <META> tag. This helps search engines index your pages properly and provide meaningful descriptions of your pages in their search results. <META> tag syntax information can be found at:
   http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/html/tagpages/m/meta.htm
2. Point your favorite web browser to http://www.addme.com .
3. Fill out and submit Add Me's Page/Listing Information form. You should only need to fill out this form for your site's home or top-level page. The individual search engines will follow the links on that page to the other pages in your site.
4. Next, you will be presented with a series of web pages allowing you to selectively register your page with any of the 34 search engines supported. Add Me will do its best to fill in the individual search engines' URL submission forms and then prompt for any additional information required.

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