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Submitting to the Search Engines and WebCrawlers

By [https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Burke_Ferguson/612]Burke Ferguson

When you want your brand new site to be indexed into major search engines, you usually go to their free submit page and submit your website, correct? Seems like the right thing to do, right? Well, many people fail to realize that not submitting your site is usually better than actually submitting it. Let, me explain. All the search engines, or the MAJOR ones, for our discussion here have what are called webcrawlers. Now, webcrawlers are little programs that go out onto the web and search or "crawl" around looking for websites that are not already indexed into their databases. Google search engine is a well-known engine that does this, its webcrawler "GOOGLEBOT" crawls the web looking for "non-existent" sites that are not in their index(database). To see evidence of this, look at your stats for your website and see if Googlebot has crawled your site lately, chances are it has. -- Start SideNote -- My personal experience indicates that Google actually prefers this method, crawling and indexing, rather than using their Free Submit page. -- End SideNote -- Basically if you want to get your site indexed into Google and the Major search engines, simply post it and wait,... I realize this seems like a weird or bad idea, but take my word for it,... IT WORKS. Another idea is that, if you already have a site that is indexed already in Google, simply put a small link to your new site toward the top of the page thats already indexed and when Google crawls your already indexed site it will automatically index your new site, since it has yet to be indexed. Easy huh? A site map can do the same thing. In order to get all your webpages for your new site indexed simply link your sitemap of your new site as above, and when it crawls your existing site, it will index all the pages of your new site, via your sitemap. Two points to always note: Link all your important pages into a sitemap, important pages first, and link to another already existent site, and let the major engines find your pages on their own, via webcrawling. NOTE: The above works for FREE search engines that have crawlers, Google for example.

See my previous article I wrote last week on PPC and PPI. This article was written by Burke Ferguson of The ACE! ezine [http://www.the-ace-ezine.com]. Burke olds both a BSc. degree in Computer Science as well being Certified in Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Strategies. He also regularly publishes The ACE! newsletter, in which he shares his experience, methods, and knowledge with others. He can be contacted by his main website [http://www.altacanweb.com]AltaCanWeb.com or The ACE! ezine [http://www.the-ace-ezine.com] Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Submitting-to-the-Search-Engines-and-WebCrawlers&id=6663] Submitting to the Search Engines and WebCrawlers

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Our global team consists of just a few hundred people, with almost half being in Palo Alto. We are small enough that nobody's contribution is diluted. Everyone makes a difference. Our team may not be large in size, but we tackle the technical challenges of one of the biggest internet companies.

We come from all over the world. We have very diverse backgrounds and have an exceptionally high ratio of PhDs. We’re all intent on solving some of the most complex computing problems to be found in industry and academia, and we get to test our solutions in the real world.

Brian Pinkerton first started working on WebCrawler, which was originally a desktop application, on January 27, 1994 at the University of Washington. On March 15, 1994, he generated a list of the top 25 websites.

WebCrawler launched on April 20, 1994, with more than 4,000 different websites in its database and on November 14, 1994, WebCrawler served its 1 millionth search query[3] for "nuclear weapons design and research".

On December 1, 1994, WebCrawler acquired two sponsors, DealerNet and Starwave, which provided money to keep WebCrawler operating. Starting on October 3, 1995, WebCrawler was fully supported by advertising, but separated the adverts from search results.

On June 1, 1995, America Online (AOL) acquired WebCrawler. After being acquired by AOL, the website introduced its mascot "Spidey" on September 1, 1995.

Starting in April 1996, WebCrawler also included the human-edited internet guide GNN Select, which was also under AOL ownership.

On April 1, 1997, Excite acquired WebCrawler from AOL for $12.3 million.

WebCrawler received a facelift on June 16, 1997, adding WebCrawler Shortcuts, which suggested alternative links to material related to a search topic.

WebCrawler was maintained by Excite as a separate search engine with its own database until 2001, when it started using Excite's own database, effectively putting an end to WebCrawler as an independent search engine. Later that year, Excite (then called Excite@Home) went bankrupt and WebCrawler was bought by InfoSpace in 2001.

WebCrawler's homepage (June 2010)

Pinkerton, WebCrawler's creator, led the Amazon A9.com search division as of 2012.

In July 2016, Blucora announced the sale of its InfoSpace business to OpenMail for $45 million, putting WebCrawler under the ownership of OpenMail. OpenMail was later renamed System1.

In 2018, WebCrawler received another facelift and the logo of the search engine was changed.

Traffic

WebCrawler was highly successful early on[16] and at one point, it was unusable during peak times due to server overload.[17] It was the second most visited website on the internet as of February 1996, but it quickly dropped below rival search engines and directories such as Yahoo!, Infoseek, Lycos, and Excite by 1997.[18]

See also

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