Understanding Search Engines

There are many types of search engines. According to the way of submission, we can separate them into Free Submission Search Engines and Manual Submission Search Engines.

1. Free Submission Search Engines - These kind of engines allow for free submission. You can use the Auto Submission tool of Dynamic Submission software to submit your web sites to these engines. Generally Speaking, there are 3 types: General Engines, Directories and FFA.

General Engines - also call Spider Engine or Indexing Search Engines. For this 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. Example is Google, AltaVista, etc.

Directories - Internet Directories engines. 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 - collections of Free for All pages (FFA) 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.

2. Manual Submission Search Engines - Not all the Search Engines accept Auto Submission. There are three types of Search Engines for which you need to do manual submission: Free manual submission engines, Pay-Per-Inclusion engines and Pay-Per-Click engines. You can use the Manual Submission tool of Dynamic Submission software to manually submit your web site.

Free manual submission engines - For these kind of engines, you can submit you web site without payment. However you need to do the submission manually. For example, AltaVista Free Engine requests you to enter a computer generated image code each time when you login, which means you have to submit your website manually. Another example is open directory engines - dmoz.org. You need to browse in the directory and select the right category before you do your submission.

Pay Per Inclusion Engine - advertiser needs to pay a fee to search engines in order to get their web sites to be listed in the search engines. Yahoo, LookSmart, etc. are these kind of Engines. Normally, your web site will be indexed by the search engines within 24 hours and your listing will be updated frequently. You are also requested to pay a renewal fee for your listing every 6 months or annually. However, this doesn't guarantee a particular position in the search results, you still need to optimize your web site manually in order to achieve higher ranking.

Pay Per Click Search Engine (also known as Pay Per Ranking, Pay Per Placement, Pay Per Performance or Pay Per Position) - It 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. For more information, please visit Guarantee a TOP position with Pay-Per-Click Search Engines!

How long does it take to have my web site indexed?

Please note that many search engines take a few days to a few weeks to index your web sites to their database. Many major search engines take more than 4 weeks even 6 weeks to index your web page. Please give yourself enough time for the engines to add your site to the database.

How Spider Engines work:
After you 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 more than 2 weeks, while some other engines may take more than 6 weeks.

Note: Please also note that there is not guarantee that your web site will be indexed by search engines even the "robot" has visited your site. Normally, you don't receive any reply from those "spider" engines when your web site has been indexed.

How Directory Engines Work:
For directory type of engines like Yahoo is different to those spider engines such as "AltaVista", "Google" etc,. Yahoo. depends on real people to decide who gets listed in their indices. For instance, Yahoo! has dozens of editors who review submitted sites and decide whether or not to include them on the Yahoo! lists. And, while there's no guarantee that an editor will even look at your site once you submit it, you are very lucky if they accept your submission with in a few days.

How Pay-Per-Inclusion Engine Works
For Pay-Per-Inclusion engines, normally your web site will be indexed within 2 to 7 days depends on the payment plan you sign up. Some Pay-Per-Inclusion engines such as Yahoo or LookSmart request you to pay more if you would like to have your web site indexed within 3 days.

How your web site rank?
Furthermore, even though your web site has been added to the database, but because thousands of web sites will be added to the search engines every day, if your web site does not list on the top position of the engines, it is very hard to find your web site. Submit your web site to the search engines and how well your web site rank on the search engine are two DIFFERENT things.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to get your web site to the top 10 position in 2 or 3 days
To get your web sites list at the top position of the search engine is a progress, it does not happen just overnight. You need to learn and study the way how to improve your web ranking and use the tools we provide in Dynamic Submission to improve your ranking smoothly. It is impossible to expect your web sites to be indexed at the top positions in just 2 or 3 days. Normally, it may take 2 or 3 MONTHS to move your web site from the bottom to the top.

How to improve my web ranking?
The best way to improve your odds of getting listed--and highly ranked--on any search engine or directory is to use the right words. Please use all the tools we provided within the Dynamic Submission to optimize your web site and move your site to the top position on all major search engines by the keywords you selected.

With directories, those words include choosing the proper category where your site should be listed, and making sure that your pages are interesting enough to catch the editor's eye. Creativity can be the key to getting a good directory listing.

You need to be creative in a different way to attract a search engine's attention. Search engine spiders sort and rank sites using "keywords"--terms that they think describe the content on your site. These keywords can be located in one or more places on your page: the title, the first few paragraphs of text, and inside Meta tags on your pages. Not all search engines look for keywords in all those places, however. And some weight words in different places higher than in other places.

The content of your web page is the key to get your web site to be list on the search engines. If your web site is only designed for "Good Looking" such as contain only the images, flash, javascript etc, but there are no "valuable" contents on the page, your web site will be simply ignored by the search engines because the search engines will index web sites which contain the "valuable information" not just "good looking" image. For more tips on how to improve your web site, please visit our Proven Tips to Improve Search Engine Ranking