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Before you begin, take a minute to prepare the data you will be submitting. Put it where you can easily cut and paste it into the forms you will be filling out at each of these sites.

You will need:

1. Your exact URL (Test it!)
2. Your e-mail address.
3. A brief description of your site.
   • In one concise sentence.
   • In a 25 word summary.
   • In a 75 word paragraph.

That done, you will be able to quickly and accurately provide the information and description that will be requested by most of these submission sites. Whenever possible, these links will take you directly to the page where you can submit your URL.

INDEX: This page is organized into the following sections

• Auto Posting Sites
  A great idea, sure to save you some work. These sites have you fill out one form, and submit it to multiple sites for you.

• The Most Important Places to be Listed
  These are the big databases, the most popular search engines, and the busiest sites. You want your site to be listed at these for sure.

• General Sites to Submit Your URL
  More places that will list your site, some quite large, some less so.

• Good Advice and More Lists of Lists
  These are sites with advice and tons of places to list your site. Many are run by professional web promotional firms who can be hired to do the work for you.

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This listing is a work in progress. (Last updated 5/14/96)

Auto Posting Sites

These sites allow you to fill out one form, and then submit it to many search engines and listings for you.

• Submit It! "Submit It! is a free service designed to make the process of submitting your URLs to a variety of WWW catalogs faster and easier. Register with over 15 different catalogs, but fill out just one form! After you submit the completed form Submit It! will return a page with submission buttons for all the sites you selected. All of your information will be encoded in that page and no more typing will be necessary. Use that page to register your site with the catalogs. Scott Banister's Submit It! is a real gem. A great place to start your adventure. Just keep track of which places you've submitted to with the automatic pages, it will save you multiple submissions later.

• The Postmaster "With NetCreations new PostMaster service, you fill out one form, click on one button and -- presto! -- your announcement is automatically posted to aprox. 24 of the most popular Web sites and publications on the Internet." And many more for a fee.
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  The Most Important Places to be Listed

  These are the Big Databases, The Best Search Engines, and the Busiest Sites

• Alta Vista Web Search "ALTA VISTA is the result of a research project started in the summer of 1995 at Digital's Research Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. By combining a fast Web crawler with scalable indexing software, the team was able to build a large index of the Web in the Fall of 1995. After two months of internal testing, we produced an even larger index consisting of the full text of over 16,000,000 pages. We made the site public on the 15th of December 1995. Within three weeks of launch, we were handling over two million HTTP requests per day." This is the best search engine on the Web. It's so good, it will change the way the business is done on the internet. You simply must be listed here.

• Excite NetSearch "Please note: it's sufficient to send us a single link to your site (preferably the home page). Our spider can find related links automatically." They are one of the largest (more than 1.5 million pages) web databases. Nice search engine, quick with good presentation results.

• InfoSeek "If you would like Infoseek to index a particular site, please send e-mail to www-request@infoseek.com. Please include the site's full URL including "http://". This service comes in two flavors. Infoseek Guide allows a free search of Web pages, Usenet newsgroups, FTP and Gopher sites. Infoseek Professional is a fee based search through a comprehensive selection of business, computer, and medical information.

• Inktomi Search Engine "The Inktomi Search Engine is the first fast web indexer with a large database. December 29: The new database of 2.8M documents is online!" Accepts URLs for later check. Wired Magazine gave its nod to this one. One of the largest databases of sites on the net.

• Internet Mall "Ready to join the Internet Mall? You'll first need to ensure that you meet our membership criteria: 1.You have a tangible product or service that you sell. 2.Potential customers can find out more about your product and order it through the Internet. Excluded are Internet service providers, any multi-level marketing schemes, franchise opportunities, products available through a distributorship, Web publishing or design services, Internet commercial or marketing services, and events, hotels, restaurants or other non-business sites." No charge for basic listing, but you can "sponsor a department or floor" for greater exposure.

• Lycos - The catalog of the Internet "You may schedule your own URLs (or nominate other URLs) for exploration by Lycos. There is no guarantee that a registered URL will remain in the Lycos catalog." Lycos claims to index over 90% of the web. Your URL belongs here.

• Magellan: McKinley's Internet Directory "Over 30,000 reviewed, rated, and indexed Web pages. Please list up to 4 keywords that best describe the contents of your site. Please list up to 4 audiences that best describe the people who will use your site." Reviewed sights have a star rating system and 'Magellan's Green Light' appears next to reviewed sites that have no apparent material of an adult nature. You can also search the unrated sites, which, on my last search, out numbered the rated sites 65:1.

• NCSA What's New "The following is a guide to what NCSA will and will not accept for What's New. Because of increasingly stringent selection guidelines, fulfillment of What's New criteria does not guarantee inclusion on the page. Submissions should be considered candidates for inclusion. What's New: Multilevel sites, Content-rich company home pages, Original content sites, Tasteful, artistic sites, Broad appeal, New or significantly redeveloped sites. What's NOT: Single-page sites, Single product promotions, Personal home pages, Sexually explicit or offensive sites, Sites Limited scope, Previously submitted sites." Worth a try...

• NetMall "Become a resident in NetMall and watch your business grow. Over 10,000 businesses are happily listed and we are currently growing at a rate of 1,200 per month. Don't be left out! ...Don't forget to write down your password for easy updating." No charge for a basic listing.

• New Riders' Official WWW Yellow Pages "Just fill out the form below, and you'll be notified if your entry has been approved to be added. Please be patient! We go through submissions every day! Your entry won't appear in the Yellow Pages until after it is approved." And they publish a nice book too.

• Open Market's Commercial Sites Index. "We list companies, institutions, or organizations with a presence on the World Wide Web, not individual products or services." With 22,000 business listings, they may not be the largest site, but they post your submission quickly and have a nice search interface.

• Point Top 5% Index "Thanks for taking the time to nominate a Web site for Point's Top 5% list. We'll take a look at it, and if we select it to be rated and reviewed, we'll notify you. Please remember to inc