AR, here are some cool links for those who would like to get their websites listed on the major search engines as well as get submitted to directories the major directories.. Enjoy!
The Search Engine Marketing Kit by SitePoint
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/sem1/
Search Engine Submission Pages:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html (for Google, Yahoo, and AOL)
http://www.altavista.com/addurl (for AltaVista)
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php (for Lycos/Fast)
http://www.wisenut.com/submitsite.html (for WiseNut, LookSmart (assumed eventually) page taken down 24/6/2002)
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request (Yahoo Search/Inktomi)
http://ask.ineedhits.com/ (AskJeeves, Teoma)
Directory Submission Pages:
http://dmoz.org/add.html (for DMOZ, Google, AOL, Others)
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/ (for Yahoo Directory)
http://listings.looksmart.com/?synd=none&chan=lshomeft (For MSN, LookSmart, Altavista)
http://www.zeal.com (Free way into LookSmart for non-commercial sites)
http://www.goguides.org
http://www.joeant.com/
http://vlib.org/ (mostly educational sites)
http://www.wannalearn.com/ (educational sites)
http://libraryspot.com (primarily reference sites)
To find small specialty directories try looking through http://www.isedb.com/
Other Resources:
Search Engine Features:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/web.../features.html (who uses meta tags, who uses link popularity, etc)
Other Stuff:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (Thesis that started Google)
http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/source.cfm?id=388 (Search engine friendly URLs with ColdFusion)
http://www.promotionbase.com/article/485 (Search engine friendly URLs with PHP)
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/web...iderchart.htmlSearch Engine Spider Identification