Client FAQ

Are there thousands of search engines?

Some people promise to submit your web site to 50,000 or more search engines.

There aren't thousands of search engines on the Internet. The majority of these 50,000 so called "search engines" are free for all (FFA) link pages or special interest web pages. Submitting your web page to thousands of FFA sites means that you'll end up with thousands of spam email messages. In addition, you won't receive a single visitor when you submit your web site about office equipment to a directory of poets in Poland.

There are four major players There's only a handful of search engines that can really bring visitors to your web site. As always, it's quality that matters, not quantity. For this reason, you should concentrate on the important search engines when you submit your web site to search engines.

Currently, there are only four major players: Google, Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask.com. They are responsible for the bigger part of the search engine traffic you can get because they also power other search engines, for example the search engine on AOL.com displays Google results. In addition, there are country specific search engines. If you have a German web site, you should also submit to the popular German search engines. In general, there aren't more than three or four relevant search engines in a country. The majority of the web surfers uses the same search engines.

Internet directories can be a good addition Internet directories are different from search engines because all web site submissions are reviewed by humans. There are several directories where your web site should be listed. One of the more important directories is The Open Directory Project at www.dmoz.org. You should also submit to topic specific search engines. If your web site sells garden equipment, you should submit your web site to specific garden directories. Even if they send you only a few visitors, they could improve the link popularity of your web site which helps your ranking in other search engines.


If you have problem submitting your site to those major search engines, BC Studio can help you.