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Manual search engine submission is always better then the auto submissions at least in the case of top search engines as the search engines now a days detect the site submitted automatically and penalize them so the better option for website promotion and good search engine positioning is manual search engine submission. You can submit your websites to them for free we have a list of top search engines submission link urls.

Submitting Your Website to Google
While Google does have an Add URL page, it is not a definite way into the database and you should not rely on this entrance gate. You should not over submit your website to this page, or submit more than your homepage through this form. As a result of competitors spamming the search engines with their competitors URL, the search engines cannot outright ban a website that has been submitted through these forms, but you should be very careful.

Google Indexing Time
The time that it takes Google to crawl and index your website is not set in stone by any means. Lately, we are seeing websites and individual web pages added to the database during the course of the month, which is not referring to the large database update that occurs once a month. The time that you wait for your website to be included into Google's database can range from a few days to 1 ½ months, dependant on a number of factors.

Submitting Your Website To AOL
AOL currently uses Google for its search results, which means that by following the above guidelines for Google, your website will be listed within AOL's search engine results pages (SERPs).

AOL Indexing Time
The indexing time for AOL is in direct correlation with the indexing time for Google, as AOL now uses Google's search results to power the search portion of their portal.

Submitting Your Website to Yahoo!
The Yahoo submission process is pretty simple and straightforward: find the category within the directory that best suits your website, and then pay the $299 annual registration fee to Yahoo!. Remember to take your time and think carefully about the category that you are submitting your website to, as the $299 is non-refundable.

Thinking along the same lines of not wasting your $299 only to be denied entry into the Yahoo! Directory, there are many things to consider before submitting your website. The first thing to do before submitting your website to Yahoo is to read their Express Registration Terms of Service. There is also a good thread at WebmasterWorld.com that rounds up some of the known issues to check for before submitting your website to Yahoo!. In general, your site must adhere to usability standards and must be viewable in all browsers, but there are many other things to watch for before taking the plunge.

Yahoo! Indexing Time
Don't say you didn't get anything for your $299 registration fee! For only $299, you get a human review of your website within 7 business days, at which point they will notify you if your website has been added to the directory or declined. If your website has been added to the directory, your website will appear within a few days, and will show up within the search results in the next update.

Submitting Your Website to Inktomi
Although Inktomi has lost some clout when AOL switched to Google results, they remain to be worth the submission fee to some as they provide search results to MSN and HotBot, and also provide backfill results to Overture and LookSmart. Inktomi's pay-for-inclusion (PFI) program will cost you $39 for the first URL, and $25 for URLs 2-1000. To submit to the Inktomi database, you will have to sign up with one of their reselling partners: VeriSign, Inc., PositionTech, ineedhits.com, or Trellian. To make sure you aren't upsetting Inktomi or triggering any filters, you can read over their Content Guidelines.

It is important to note that you don't have to pay to be included in the Inktomi database. Many people who have chosen not to pay the registration fee for Inktomi have found that their websites were visited by Inktomi's spider, Slurp, and their websites were added to the database. It is also important to note that this is not 100% reliable.

Inktomi Indexing Time
If you opt to go PFI with Inktomi, your website will be spidered and added to the database within the first 48 hours following registration. Following your website being added to the database, Inktomi's spider will visit your website every 48 hours and refresh each page that have paid for. (Side note: this makes it easy to test their algorithm and tweak pages to rank well.)

If you don't opt for PFI with Inktomi, you will have to be patient for your website to show up in the Inktomi index, if it appears at all. It is not a sure thing, but it has become more common lately. Keep an eye out for Slurp, Inktomi's spider, showing up in your log files, as you will more than likely be added to the database once Slurp spiders your site. A good way to insure that Slurp finds your website is through link popularity.

Submitting Your Website to AltaVista
Submitting your website to AltaVista is a part of the submission process that you should remember, but not one that you should stress, as their level of search engine referrals is not anything to boast about. Regardless, AltaVista could make a turnaround, and you will want to be there if they do. AltaVista offers many different forms of submission to their database: Basic Submit (free submission), Express Inclusion (PFI) through InfoSpider, and their Trusted Feed program, which is reserved for high-volume submissions (over 500 pages). You can find links to all AltaVista submission options and programs here.AltaVista has been spidering websites very heavily in the past months, and we have seen faster indexing times, which we will discuss below. When submitting through AltaVista's Basic Submit, you are allowed to submit 5 URLs from a given website in the course of a day (Side note: 5 URLs is a good guide for most free search engines that require more than the root page submitted). Submitting through Basic Submit was a shot in the dark roughly a year ago, but Scooter, AltaVista's spider, has been spidering websites very heavily and many websites have been added rather quickly for free. Is this the sign of a turnaround? Don't jump the gun! ;) AltaVista's PFI program, Express Inclusion, is run very similar to Inktomi's PFI program through its Reseller Partners. AltaVista has outlined a few of their Submission Policies which you should read before submitting to their website. AltaVista does not have anything in particular that it requires before submission, but the points outlined in the

AltaVista Indexing Time
The indexing time for AltaVista was, and still is for many, a shot in the dark, with regards to the Basic Submit. AltaVista's submission page states that web pages will be reviewed within 4 to 6 weeks of submission, but there have been reports of many before and many after. It is not reliable, and if your campaign is on a certain timetable, you may not to opt for the Express Inclusion. If you opt for the Express Inclusion, you will have your web pages reviewed within 2 business days and then added to the database. Following this inclusion, your registered web pages will be refreshed every day (Side note: Just as with Inktomi, this makes for nice SEO testing).

Submitting Your Website to Fast/AllTheWeb
Fast/AllTheWeb is yet another search engine to go down the PFI highway. All is not lost though, as websites are certainly still added via their free submission option. SEOPs and webmasters have four options for submitting their website to Fast/AllTheWeb: 1) Free submission, 2) Lycos InSite Select, 3) Lycos InSite Pro, and Lycos InSite Enterprise. Lycos is the North American Fast PartnerSite reseller for Fast, and InSite and InSite Select are PFI programs that are offered. You can view all submission options and programs here. These PFI programs follow the same suit as Inktomi and Info Spider, but registering your URLs is less expensive. Registering your URLs through Lycos InSite Select requires an annual membership of $18.00 and $12.00 per URL annually. Lycos InSite Pro allows URL registration coupled with a Hosted Site Search. Lycos InSite Enterprise is for large websites that would like to submit hundreds or thousands of URLs to the database via a direct feed. The pricing model of InSite Enterprise is cost-per-click (CPC). If your search engine optimization campaign has some flexibility in terms of time, it is probably best to opt for the free submission option at Fast/AllTheWeb. When submitting via their Add URL page, you only need to submit the root or index page of your website. Fast's spider will follow the links from this page and crawl the rest of the pages on your site (This is one place where the importance of internal linking and its structure comes into play). Having your website listed in Fast will result in your pages being listed on AllTheWeb.com, Lycos.com, and numerous European search engines.

Fast/AllTheWeb Indexing Time
While their PFI program has the traditional indexing time; their free submission time is in one of few that has steady, decently quick indexing time. If you submit your website to the search engine via the Add URL page that is listed above, you can expect to see your website in the database within a month. Many have seen websites listed in the database in much shorter time spans, with the majority hovering close to a month. When you register a URL through the PFI programs, your web pages will be reviewed and indexed within 48 hours. Fast will refresh your registered URLs every 24 hours, which is directly in line with Info Spider and similar to Inktomi. (Side note: as with Inktomi and Info-Spider, these web page refreshs are helpful in SEO testing)

Submitting Your Website to ODP
Obtaining a listing in the Open Directory Project (ODP), sometimes referred to as DMOZ, is very important for numerous reasons. The biggest reason for working hard towards an ODP listing is the influence that the listing will have on your Google rankings and PageRank. Not only will an ODP listing gain you entry into the Google database, it will give you a boost in PageRank depending on what category you're in, and also increase your rankings.

With a PFI program the guidelines that a website must meet are flexible as the webmaster or SEOP is paying the registration fee, so the search engine can justify taking the money and burying the website in the SERPs if there are glaring problems. This is not the case with the ODP by any means. When submitting your website to the ODP, you must check your website, double-check your site, and then triple-check your site! The categories of the ODP are monitored and run by volunteers that sign up with the directory. The editors of each category have certain guidelines that they must adhere to when reviewing websites for inclusion, and on top of this your submission is subject to their personal opinions and preferences that they will apply to their choosing process. The fact that all submissions are free is of course a wonderful thing, but also leaves the editor feeling less obligated to list your website in the directory. The ODP has their Submission Policies and Instructions which you should read before submitting, but you should check your website in the same manner that we described for Yahoo above. The ODP can be hard to get into, and even harder to gauge the amount of time for inclusion into the database, which we discuss below.

ODP Indexing Time
Ask a handful of SEOPs and webmasters, and they will tell you that if there is one thing the Open Directory Project could improve, it is there sporadic and at times lengthy inclusion times. As each category has a different volunteer editor, the inclusion time can vary from 1 week to 6 months. An important thing to emphasize is that you should only submit your website once to the Open Directory Project. Only submit your website once. As we mentioned above, volunteers run the ODP, so it may take a long time for the editor to review your submission. Don't ruin your chances of inclusion in the directory by over-submitting your website to the directory, when the fact of the matter is that the editor is swamped with submission and simply hasn't seen your submission or hasn't had time to review it yet.

Best advice for ODP: submit your website, follow it up with a nice email to the editor, and then be patient.

Note:- We check links to the submission link urls regularly in case any submit links not working pls email the webmaster at sedirmain@rediffmail.com

Search Engine	Manual Submission link
Google	Google Submission link
Altavista	Altavista Submission link
Northerlight	Northerlight Submission link
Fast	Fast Submission link
Voila	Voila Submission link
MSN	MSN Submission link
Ah-ha	Ah-ha Submission link