Martin Ryder
University of Colorado at Denver
School of Education

Let Search Engines Find Your Page

Register Your Site!

Here is a quick job aid for those who want to "publish" their work on the WWW.

Add meta tags

Where appropriate, add information specifically intended for search engines. At the top of your page add metatags for keywords, a description, and author. These are entirely optional and will not appear in the text of your document. The keywords should include any words that specifically pertain to your document, but which may not actually be included in your text. For example, if Dr. Suess were posting his "Lorax", he might include the following metatags:

<META name="Keywords" content="ecology, manufacturing ethics, social responsibility">
<META name="Description" content="The Once-ler tells the story of how the Lorax tried to warn him about the harmful effects of his greed.">
<META name="Author" content="Dr. Seuss">

Inform Search Crawlers of your page

Yahoo:

http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add
Submit the name and URL of your suggested page.
Click next and suggest a category: e.g. Education/Instructional_Technology
Click 'proceed' and enter your name and email address.
Enter any additional information where relevant and click 'submit'.

Google

http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Simply enter your URL and a descriptive comment, then submit.

Excite

http://www.excite.com/info/add_url_form
Enter your URL, email address and select a category (e.g. Education), then click on "send" to submit.

Lycos

Enter your URL and email address. Uncheck the 'notify me' unless you desire email updates of their service. Click the 'add site' button to submit.

EuroSeek

http://addsite.euroseek.com/page.php?ilang=en
Simply enter your URL and submit.

All links verified May 02, 2008.

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