Search engines are by far the starting point for Internet
users each and every day from home and the office. With nearly
90% of Internet traffic originating from the major search
engines and directories daily, getting your website listed
with the major portals is essential. The larger search engines
index over 120 million documents, so competing for the top
spots is extremely difficult and competitive. This guide documents
what search engines look for when indexing, what to avoid,
and other tips to help boost your rankings.
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Search Engine Review
Alexa
Review
Alexa is a browsing aid that relates similar
web sites together based on certain criteria. |
Altavista
Review
Altavista is one of the largest scale search engines that
indexes your entire website. |
AOL Netfind
Review
America Online's Netfind is a very important resource
to ensure that AOL users can find your site. |
Ask Jeeves
Review
Ask Jeeves is a natural language search engine which attempts
to resolve your questions into appropriate answers. |
Direct
Hit Review
Direct Hit is the largest popularity based search engines
which powers most of the industry players. |
Excite Review
Excite is a medium/large scale search engine and portal
that is increasing its popularity. |
FAST Search
Review
FAST Search is a new contender in the search engine market
but has already become a major player in under a year. |
Google
Review
Google is a most popular search engine. |
Hotbot Review
Hotbot is a medium/large scale search engine which has
now become part of the Lycos Network. |
Looksmart
Review
Looksmart has become one of the most commercialized search
engines and directory services since its inception. |
Lycos Review
Lycos is a large scale search engine and web portal that
has increased its services beyond searching the web. |
Metacrawler
Review
Metacrawler is a meta search engine which queries multiple
sites at once including major industry players. |
Open Directory
Project Review
The Open Directory Project (ODP) is one of the largest
databases that powers multiple search engines. |
Yahoo Review
Yahoo is the oldest and still the most popular directory
service for searching the web. |
