Search Engines Questions & Answers

Q Why aren't my web sites indexed by the Search Engines?

• A.  (We have been using your product for around 5 months now, submitting about every month or so, however, we're not showing up anywhere on any of the major Search Engines. What am I doing wrong?) Click here for the Answer

Q. What's Pay-Per-Click Search Engines?

• A. A Pay Per Click (also known as Pay Per Ranking, Pay Per Placement, Pay Per Performance or Pay Per Position) search engine enables you to list your site at a particular position of the search results according to the keyword bid. You list your website by selecting keywords that refer to your products or services. For each keyword you determine how much you are willing to spend and what position you want. The higher you bid the higher your site will appear in the search results. You can start your bid from 1 cent per click for most of the major PPC engines, some PPC engines have a minimum bid of 5 cents per click.

  In Pay Per Click search engine you only pay for the clicks (or click through) to your web site. Pay-per-click search engine plays an important role to drive traffic to the web site because you only pay for actual clicks if some one clicks on your listing in the search results. It is risk free and a cheaper alternative to listing with the bigger search engines. Pay per click search engines usually combine paid listings with unpaid listings. Usually unpaid listing are provided by search engines like Google, Inktom or DMOZ. If there is not enough bidders for a certain search term, part of the search results will come from those free search engines.

Q. What's the difference between directory, FFA and general engines?

• A. General Engines - also called "Spider" engines or Indexing Engines. For example Google.com, AltaVista etc. For these type of engines, you don't need to submit your web site details. You just need to enter your web site URL and submit it . These engines will retrieve your web site details from the Meta Tag or the body of your web site automatically.

  Search Engines work by 'spidering' the Web to collect the web site information automatically and indexing all the Web pages it finds under specific heading or 'keywords'. When someone goes to a Search Engine and enters specific 'keywords', every page relevant to those 'keywords' is listed in order of importance. The idea is to ensure that your Web site comes out near the top for critical keywords related to your product or service.

  After we submit your web site to the engines, your URL will be first stored in a "temporary" database, and then the search engines will send a "robot" or "spider" later at a regular time to "visit" your web site and determine whether your web site is to be indexed or not. Most major engines will "spider" your web site more than 2 weeks, while some other engines may take more than 6 weeks.

  Directories - Directories are not automatically generated but are compiled by editors. A website that is submitted to a directory is subsequently catalogued and linked to one or more topics. As the directories are set up by experienced editors, they generally produce more targeted results. Example is Yahoo.com .

  FFA - Free For All links (FFA) are pages in which links to website can be entered together with a short comment. Owners of websites thereby enter the registration themselves, and there is no editing board to review the entries. It is free and becomes immediately effective. By submitting to FFA sites you agree to accept e-mail advertisements from these sites. Many FFA site owners try to collect email addresses from the people who submit to FFA sites and send auto-response advertisement or spam email. This is why they're free but in return, you're quick to get listed.

Q. How do 'Spider' Search Engines work?

• A. After we submit your web site to the engines, your URL will be first stored in a "temporary" database, and then the search engines will send a "robot" or "spider" later in a regular time to "visit" your web site and determine whether your web site to be indexed or not. Most major engines will "spider" your web site in 2 weeks, while some other engines may take more than 6 weeks.

  Note: Please also note that there is no guarantee that your web site will be indexed by search engines even after the "robot" has visited your site. Normally, you don't receive any reply from those "spider" engines when your web site has been indexed.

Q. What search engines do you submit to?

• A. There are to many to list here, so here are the first 118 out of 1,088.

Q. Redirected Domains, can I submit them?

• A. I've never come up with a solid answer myself, and domain hosting can be gotten so incredibly cheap. Some of the domains we have submitted were excepted and there were a few that were not, it all depends on how the redirection is done.