There are millions of searches being performed each and every day. Getting sites indexed in order to receive free traffic from the SEs is one crucial step towards [...]]]> This is a question that comes up often… “To how many Search Engines should I submit my site?”

There are millions of searches being performed each and every day. Getting sites indexed in order to receive free traffic from the SEs is one crucial step towards becoming free in your Internet business endeavors.

So what’s the answer? To how many?

• Google
• Yahoo!
• Live (MSN)
• Ask

These are the “Search Engine Boys” if you so will. Yes, only four. Not a silly 30,000, 3,000 or 300, only 4 (four). These four cover 95% of all searches performed online. All others are either aggregators (i.e., use one of the above SE‘s technology) or are just too insignificant in importance.

As an old saying goes, better focus on the 20% that cover 80% of the market. (Here it’s rather focusing on the 5% that cover 95%.)

That means, whenever you get an offer such as “we’ll submit your site to 300+ Search Engines” — it might sound great but forget it! You do more harm than good to your site’s health.

“But where exactly do I submit my site(s) to?” you ask? I knew you would. ;-)

OK, here we go…

Google

http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo!

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Live/MSN

http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

Ask

None.

Oops! Why “none”? They say they will discover your site through links from other sites to yours.

Now, it may take up to several months until they indexed your site. Yup, that much. I do have a much faster method though.

Do you want to know how to get your site(s) indexed in as little as 48 hours (or less)?

Stay tuned. I’m going to post that tutorial soon. :-)

—Marcus Hochstadt