Major Search Engines and Directories

    In Chapter 5: Major Search Engines & Directories provides you with essential info on today’s most popular and most powerful search engines in the world. Get a little history on each company and learn some stats that determine the success of these search engines in the World Wide Web. Also, find out the significance of directories, and how they can also be used to make your site findable by the billions of internet users on the planet.

  • Major Search Engines and Directories
    • Search Engines and Directories
    • Search Engine Guidelines
    • Search Engines
      • Google
      • Yahoo
      • MSN
    • Directories

       

      Yahoo Directory, Open Directory (DMOZ), Google Directory, Lists of Other Directories

    • Forums

Forums


    These sites serve as a portal for discussions, based on various topics and issues. A registered user has the liberty of opening up a new topic or thread, and other members can view the thread and post comments on it.

    Forums are excellent places to get your site noticed. Most of the forums on the World Wide Web can be accessed free of charge, and the web user only needs to register an account before he can post topics or reply to messages.

    Forums also have built in trackers, which can determine how many times a thread has been viewed, the number of replies sent to it, as well as the latest or most recent post submitted. What’s more, members of forums can avail of inbox messaging, so they can send private messages to other members.

    When replies to threads are posted, most forums allow the user to paste in a link to his website. A lot of search engine spiders take their time to go through forums to they can index even the replies posted by members.

    Sometimes, when opening a new thread, it pays to include keywords in them, as well as useful links for spiders to follow. Like most directories, joining and sending in posts in forums are free, and you don’t need to worry about the added cost.