Smart submission

With the Internet getting bigger by the minute, any impact you want to create online will depend on where your site ranks among the results search engines throw up.

There are many programs that simplify the task of submitting your URL to the top search engines, and this week's selection is a sampling of such software.

Submit Web 2.0

Submit Web is an easy-to-use, professional Web site promotional tool that automates the process of promoting your Web pages on the Internet.

It claims to dramatically increase the number of visitors to your site, giving you an edge over millions of other sites.

Platform: Windows 95/98

Filesize: 1.87 MB

Download location: www.submit-web.com/

Purchase Info: Shareware

Submission Wiz Professional

Submission Wiz is a professional Web site promotion and marketing software tool that simplifies the mundane task of submitting your Web site, URL or Web pages to all major search engines. This submission software also claims to dramatically increase the number of visitors to your Web site by listing your site in over 9,000 search engines and directories.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Filesize: 1.49 MB

Download location: www.submissionwiz.com/

Purchase Info: Shareware

Plexus Guide To Web Site Promotion

This Internet marketing software comes with links to thousands of free classified ad sites, free search engine submission sites and free mall advertising. It also contains business tools and tips and techniques to properly advertise your new software.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT

Filesize: 836 KB

Download location: www.plexusdesign.com/ebook

Purchase Info: Shareware

Aesop Award Submitter

This simple, easy-to-use program will automatically submit award requests to the nearly 100 award sites including the eight most important awards on the Web. If your site's as good as it takes, you might end up with an award.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Filesize: 1.17 MB

Download location: www.aesop.com/

Purchase Info: Freeware

AddWeb Pro 3.33

AddWeb is a software application that saves you time and money by submitting your Web site to all the major search engines. Key features include fast submission engine, allowing up to 60 concurrent submissions, ranking feature - to see how your site is listed on the major engines and page builder which generates meta tags that help get your page a higher listing on search engines.

Besides, it offers free automated database and revision updates and automated rules checking to keep you from accidentally spamming the search engines.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Filesize: 2.13 MB

Download location: www.cyberspacehq.com

Purchase Info: Shareware

Add to Search Engine 1.2

This program helps you to register manually your Web site to the biggest and most visited search engines on the Net. It places emphasis on manual feeding of information because it is the ''most sure way to have a successful registration''. Users can also change the program configuration completely.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Filesize: 767 KB

Download location:

http://weaverspider.webjump.com/

Purchase Info: Freeware

PageSubmit! PRO 2.00

The software submits your Web site directly to search engines, steering clear of the many thousands of Free for All (FFA) links pages.

These FFA pages are simply lists of links to other Web sites. Although by no means worthless, they are not good for providing targeted traffic in the long term.

These FFA pages are updated very frequently and your Web site may only stay there for a matter of days, whereas search engines usually list your site permanently.

Platform: Windows 95/98

Filesize: 1.22 MB

Download location: www.pagesubmit.com

Purchase Info: Shareware

Compiled by C. Ramesh

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