How to see if you are listed in the WebCrawler search engine.

In WebCrawler search for: www.howtonet.com without the http://

How long does it take to appear in the Web Crawler search engine?

Currently Web Crawler is taking two weeks to spider sites submitted to their search engine.

TIPS ON ADDING A SITE TO WEBCRAWLER

• Please note that redirected URLs are automatically resolved to the correct server, and will appear this way in the index.
• WebCrawler's robot spider visits submitted URLs every day. However, the URLs in our database that it visits may not be included in the WebCrawler index for up to two weeks.
• If you've previously submitted a URL to us and it was listed in our index, but is there no longer, please simply resubmit your URL. We can't guarantee that we'll list every URL submitted to us, but we do try to incorporate as many submissions as possible into our online index.
• Please submit the main URL or URLs for your site, and not all of them. For more information regarding our indexing and submissions policies, please see our Add URL Help page.

OK. You have optimized your entire web site and you are ready to submit to the search engines. You can accomplish this a number of ways:

• Do it manually These web pages will help you do it. If you want information on how to optimize your entire site, please request information on our "How to Optimize Your Web Site Manual and Interactive Workbook." The following search engines will account for the vast majority of your referrals, some estimate as much as 95% of all search engine traffic is generated through less than 10 search engines.

• AltaVista
  Excite
  HotBot
  InfoSeek
  Lycos
  Northern Light
  WebCrawler
  Yahoo

• Hire a service do this for you (Hey, we can submit your web pages to the search engines)

• Evaluate automated search engine submission software. (We have done that, and we recommend Submit Wolf)

Warning!!  If you already have a great ranking, do NOT resubmit your site. The search engine algorithm may have changed and you could actually drop in the rankings (Yes, I know this first hand - I once dropped from #17 to #155, never more!)

How can you test your ranking before your submit? (Why... I am glad you asked.) Visit our WebPostion software page and take advantage of our FREE download. Test your web rankings BEFORE you submit.

Simply follow the link to find the page you need to use to submit your URL (web site).

You will need to hit your back button on your browser to return to this page to continue submitting.

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