How to Submit a Site to MetaCrawler

MetaCrawler ranks websites by looking at their rankings on other search engines.

One of the largest search engines is MetaCrawler. Unlike other popular engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, MetaCrawler does not rank websites through its own methodology. Instead, as the name suggests, it crawls other search engines simultaneously and delivers results on the basis of a site's ranking on each of those engines. The higher a website is ranked on an individual engine, the higher ranked it will be in MetaCrawler's results. By submitting sites to several search engines, the site is automatically added to MetaCrawler.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. Browse to Google's website submission page by clicking on the engine's link in the Resources section. Enter the URL and comments about the site. Only the homepage needs to be submitted.

2. Browse to Yahoo! Search's website submission page by clicking on the engine's link in the Resources section. Click "Submit a Website or Webpage," enter the URL, and click "OK."

3. Browse to Bing's website submission page by clicking on the engine's link in the Resources section. Enter the security code and the website's URL. Click "Submit URL."

Tips & Warnings

• Access several other search engines in the Resources section.

References

• Wired 2000: Metacrawler Search Engine

Resources

• Free Web Submission
• Google: Add Your URL to Google
• Yahoo: Site Explorer
• Bing: URL Submission