Yahoo!, the original search engine on the Web, continues to be unique among search engines and directories. Yahoo listings are maintained by humans rather than algorithms. Each site submitted for inclusion is accepted or rejected by a Yahoo editor who actually views and evaluates the Continue reading ‘Submitting Your Website (1)’ »
If it took any significant time to submit your URL to Google, we would say, “don’t bother.” Google only ranks sites that it finds from following links on the Internet with its spider, Googlebot. Even though Google may have your site in its database from your submission, your site will have no ranking until some other included site links to it…and Google’s spider finds that link. The only advantage of submitting your site to Google before it is found by the spider is that your site will show up if someone types in the URL or the exact description of your site in a Google search. Since it takes very little time to search engine submitting, you should do so for that purpose. Although it may be rare that people will type in your URL or an exact match of your description, they are Continue reading ‘Submitting your website(4)’ »
The term “Google” comes from the American mathematician Edward Kasner’s nephew. When his nephew was nine, Dr. Kasner asked him to invent a name for the very large number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The nephew came up with “googol,” later sometimes spelled as “google.” Although the Google search engine was a latecomer in Internet time (not starting until 1998), it now holds a prominent place among the major search engines. The name chosen by its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, suggests that large numbers or large amounts of data do not easily intimidate them. Indeed, at the time of this writing, Google is the secondary listings source for the Yahoo! search engine and one of the top 10 most popular search engines in its own right. It’s also now Continue reading ‘Submitting your website(3)’ »
Now that you’re familiar with the process of picking the right category for your site, you’re ready to select the Suggest A Site link FROM THE CORRECT YAHOO CATEGORY to begin your site’s submission process. Just drill down through the categories from Yahoo’s main page until you come to the appropriate category for your site. Then, on that page, select the Continue reading ‘Submitting your website(2)’ »