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All of them, well most of them wouldn't hurt. It is often quoted that the top 7 search engines account for 95% of web traffic combined; Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, HotBot, Lycos and WebCrawler. Actually, Yahoo isn't really a search engine, but rather a directory. There are hundreds for you to choose from.
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When some search engines index a page, they will check their database for how many pages are linking to that page (or domain). This will give the page a 'link popularity' rating. In some cases, such as Google, it will also use the link popularity of the site that is linking to that page to determine the quality of the link. For example, a link from C-net would push the rating much higher than a link from a personal page.
When a search is performed, the engine will first scan for relevant results. Once it has the results, it will use the link popularity rating to sort the results. You can see great examples of this by performing searches in Google. Most of the results for general query's are from high traffic sites. For example, the top 3 results on Google for |
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I say never register on search engines let them find you how you may ask? Well get a link on a good site and the search engines will find you the best way imho.
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You don't need to register to any of them. Just get other sites linking to yours that are already getting crawled by Google and the major search engines will then pick up on it and your site will get indexed. The more quality sites that link to yours the better your site is likely to rank in the search results.
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Also, theres many sites that allow your link to appear in several different search engines at one time. I wish I could post the links to these sites, but I'm sure you can find them by searching with key words like 'add site web search' or something akin to that. |
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