What information about my site do you submit to search engines?

In most cases we only submit your site URL to the search engines as it is often the only information the engines accept. Some search engines will allow us to submit additional information such as a description or a title for your site. On directories such as Yahoo!, we must first search for and locate a logical category for your site. The way we submit information about your site can “make or break” your position within the engines, so we do it very carefully. Following submission, most search engines will use their web crawling agents (often called “spiders” or “robots”) to collect information from the site’s code, then rank and display it according to their own special rules. Some engines and directories use staff to collect this information, which is why there are often long delays between the submission of your site and it’s listing.