Lee, don't EVER *register* for anything like this. You will be attacked with SPAM until the day you die. Go to each SE's submit area and MANUALLY do it yourself. You also get better results that way. SE's submission areas don't take kindly to submission services or software that do it in 'masses'. Many are now requiring email confirmation and dynamically generated on-the-fly passwords for submissions to ensure you're an individual and not a submission service software. The remainders will follow suit.
Don't ever pay to be listed. The SE's that are or were charging have (just as I suspected) either have gone out of business, or about to, and no one is using their engines for searching anymore since they can't find anything with them! Yahoo for example, has practically gone out of the SE business. I told them this would happen when they started to charge, but why would they listen to a nobody like me?? ;-) They now have to use Google's feed since their own engine is dead....thanks to charging for submissions. Now, all those that were.......uhh....'shortsided' enough to pay Yahoo (for their $200 submission service), are getting listed way below those that didn't pay a cent @Google since Google's feed shows up before Yahoo's own results (except for the "premium" sponsor listings)! Same thing is going to happen to Excite since they just started to charge for submissions. Stay away from those since no one will be using them to search due to the fact only a few huge businesses will dumb enough to pay them. When one searches using any of these paid SE's, their results are severely tainted due to only a few hits!! Submit to Google, AllTheWeb, ScrubTheWeb, AltaVista, Lycos, AOL (dmoz), MSN, etc., and most importantly, DMOZ. And, those that USE those type SE's for searching will get ALL the unbiased, untainted results they need. Usually you don't even have to submit. The good SE's like Google, AltaVista, Lycos that spider the web on a regular basis will find your site if your tags are well worded and correct. The saying "build it and they will come" usually holds true here. -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hi all... awhile ago.. I remember there was discussion about ways to be registered with search engines for free...I couldn't find the topic in the archives...anyone remember?? thanks in advance.. Lee ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
