Even
though most of your traffic will come from big players like Google and Yahoo!, there are
hundreds of search engines and directories where you can list your site and get additional
traffic.
Here is a comrehensive list of the best search engines and directories on the web:
!Mr. Wordsmith - directory and search
organized by category. Also offers pay per click search engine and webmaster affiliate
program.
!Mysearch7 - offers a reciprocal link directory
with search capabilities.
!Web Search - search engine combining third
party results with pay-per-click listings. Also offers a webmaster affiliate program.
11AA.com - offers links for students of Asia, Africa,
and Latin America.
Submission Tips:
Save a file in Wordpad or other text editor, containing the title of your webpage, a
short and accurate description of your site (no hype), and your URL. Open it every
time you want to submit your site so you can just cut and paste the information (it will
save you time).
Include your keywords in your page title. It will increase the relevance of your
page for your selected keywords in search engines.
Keep track of your submissions. Download the following Excel spreadsheet and use
it to follow up on the status of your submissions:
123World.com - directory includes links to
airlines, airports, seaports, chambers of commerce, companies, United States, countries,
publications, and international organizations.
1DO3.com - online directory that aims to anticipate
the things you might want to do using the web.
411.com - offers various searches for a number of
concepts.
4anything.com, Inc. - features relevant
information on a variety of subjects.
A Top Quality Site - offers links, online
games, downloads, news, and resources.
AardvarkTravel.net - worldwide travel
search engine and directory with links to tourist information, flights, cruises, tours,
hotels, and other accommodation.
About Boot Camps - offers a boot camp
directory with listings ranging from computer training to parenting.
About.com - extensive network of sites by subject
specialists who write articles, host discussions, publish free email newsletters and
provide personally-reviewed links for each topic.
Abrexa UK - family friendly U.K. search engine
providing site reviews, age ratings, and spam warnings.
Aeiwi - indexes sites according groupings of
keywords.
ajiffy - provides pay-per-click advertising and an
affiliate program.
Albert - search the web using the company's
Albert Meaning Interpreter (AMI) technology.
Alexa - offers a web search and browser toolbar that
learns from users and provides them with context sensitive information about sites.
All Academic - provides free academic searches
of the Internet. Authors can index academic work as well.
Allestra - offering a variety of links organized
into targeted categories.
BoardReader - search message board information
on the web.
Boxmind - online library that categorizes a wide
variety of subjects and subject areas, offering carefully reviewed and edited links to
external sites.
BrainFox Media Services - search engine which
combines an existing directory with paid listings through their pay-per-click program.
Business Center - directory offers
information for businesses and business travelers.
Buzzle.com - offers links, message boards, jokes,
stories, and free email. Subjects include sports, arts, finance, family, computers,
shopping, entertainment, and more.
Care2 - environmental portal full of healthy living
tips, eco-directory, click-to-donate sites, e-cards, and more. Generates donations for top
environmental nonprofits.
CategoryWeb - offers offers wholesale search
results with a search engine which combines the DMOZ directory with paid listings.
Cheats.com - directory of business, shopping, and
recreation sites.
Clever Project -
publications and ongoing work at IBM Almaden Research Center to develop algorithms and
systems for solving the problem of information overload.
Clickey - keyword based search engine of
registered domain names.
Clickforchoice - offers a web directory and
keyword searches.
Clickla - search engine serving both pay-per-click
and spidered search results.
Community-based
Navigation - We are testing an enhanced version of Mosaic that supports fast Likert
scale rating and automatically pools item-ratings in a community server that can recommend
and evaluate URLs.
CompInfo - reference site and search
engine for computers, software, and business.
CompletePlanet - directory of search
engines and searchable online databases.
CosmicClick - provides pay-per-click and
spidered search results.
Cyber Web Search - directory and search
engine offering postcards, games, classified ads, email, and more.
Daypop [read review]
- current events search engine indexes the best news sites and weblogs on the Net every
day.
InvisibleWeb - directory of databases,
archives, and search engines.
IQSeek.com - search engine allowing sites to bid
for placement under specific search terms.
Irena - Web
Connections Finder - glean from a target page of this Web server all relevant
hypertext links and their annotations. Irena is especially useful for locating links to
resources referenced in long, complex and densly written HTML documents.
itList - keep your favorite sites and email
addresses on the Web.
Jump City - The online version of the
book,"What's on the Web", published by Internet Media and available in
bookstores nationwide.
Kanoodle.com - bid-for-location search engine
with a focus on music. Also offers email, chat, a Love & Advice section, and more.
Kanoogle.com - offers a searchable directory of
web sites with personalization available.
KartOO - presents results and related links in a
graphical map based format.
KaZaZZ - includes search, news, tools, personalized
lifestyle profiles, comedy, movie and book reviews, articles of interest, and thought
provoking questions of the day.
LookSmart (Nasdaq:LOOK) - provider of commercial search
listings products and graphical advertising products that help businesses generate
cost-effective sales leads.
LuXPoint - Internet directory and search for
Luxembourg.
Lycos - online destination site combining elements
of navigation, community, and commerce.
MonsterSeek - bid-for-placement search engine
with an affiliate program available.
MOSHIx2 - Japanese and English search engine. Also
has a browsable directory of sites.
Netscape Search - combines results from the
Netcenter, Open Directory, and the Web.
Netword - a word or short phrase that provides free
access to an Internet destination. People & companies are creating Networds so you can
find their information easily.
New Atlantis - offers sub-directories
organized by subject.
Northern Light - customize search folders
for integrated web and article searching.
Re: QUEST dot Net - library of Internet resources
for student and professionals.
Resource Discovery Network - dedicated to providing
effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching, and
research community.
ReverseDirectory.net - collection of
links to phone number and people locators, maps, and other resources.
RoPile - offers a pay per click search engine with
an affiliate program available.
SurfSafely.com - offers family-friendly search,
using a web directory open only to PICS rated sites, enabling content selection using
parental controls.
Surfy! - Internet access, search, email, downloads,
and more.
Teoma - compares links of sites that are subject
relevant.
TheIndex - for locating commercial, professional,
technical, and academic information, products, and services.
TheLinks - includes major search engines,
plus 800 numbers, zip codes, usp, yellow pages and medical databases.
Turbo10 - allows you to search the "deep
web" via a collection of databases and search engines, which you can customize.
Searchers can also cluster results into topics and sort by relevance, speed, and source.
TurboFind.com - offers a directory of popular
categories and search engine for the Web.
WebExhibits - illustrated educational
exhibits, with brief summaries, ratings, and reviews.
WebLens - offers sections for classic and
specialized searches, search tutorials, knowledge networking, and more.
Webocracy Internetwork - media think tank
committed to furthering the views of a liberal, thinking society through a polemical
approach to established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or
dogmas.
Webpilots, The - features tours of the Web with
an easy-to-use graphical interface.
Webtaxi - provides a single interface for both
parallel and nonparallel methods of searching multiple sites.
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