I get a lot of my traffic from search engines. I also see a lot of people asking how to get listed in the different search engines. For me the answer is a no brainer… Tell the search engines you exist… I focus on three search engines. Google, Yahoo and MSN. Granted Google is the big boy, Yahoo and MSN can bring in the same quality of targeted traffic.

Never EVER buy search engine submission… $29.95 and you are submitted to 35,875 search engines is a SCAM, PERIOD, there are no exceptions. All this does is separate you from you money. It prays on two human factors laziness and desperation for money/success. All search engines today that are worth submitting to require you are logged in or that you validate you are human by tying in some letters or numbers.

One point that is not widely know is MSN, Yahoo and Google all actually have two sources of traffic. If you have been in the business a while and look at stats very much you have seen search.live.com and search.msn.com which both belong to Microsoft, myweb.yahoo.com and search.yahoo.com that belong to Yahoo, and google.com and blogsearch.google.com that belong to Google. I love that everybody chases Google and very, very few people chase MSN. MSN is a very good traffic source for me. Yahoo is so, so. Google is good.

Quick Note: I also get traffic from technorati.com. But, they are not friendly to Adult Webmasters. At one time I was a technorati fanatic but after the decided to freeze porn submissions I have no use for them and highly advise against putting any effort into promoting through technorati.

First thing you need to have, to submit to MSN, Yahoo and Google, are MSN, Yahoo and Google accounts. If you do not have accounts, create them, they cost nothing. If you are not signed in most of these pages will not make sense until you sign in.

First the MSN URL’s: (I use my Hotmail account)
http://www.live.com/ - Personal Windows Live page - You HAVE to be signed in. At one time MSN stated that to spider a feed it had to be include on a Windows Live Page. The page that was stated on has been taken down by MSN but I believe it to still be true.
http://favorites.live.com/manage.aspx - My Windows Favorite Bookmarks - I can not prove the value here. But, I am a firm believer that the more links I have on microsoft owned domains the better.
http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx - Live Search URL Submission - I can not help but notice the form is on a MSN.com domain…
Add a Website - Webmaster Tools - Live Search
Edit - Below URL Added 10 April 2008
http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/...SitesPage.aspx - Add a Website - Webmaster Tools - Live Search

Next the Yahoo URL’s: (I use a Yahoo email account)
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites - Yahoo Site Explorer
http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit - Yahoo! Search: Submit Your Media RSS Feed Form - All I enter is the RSS feed, none of the optional items. And if you read the text of the page you will see there are at least 4 search databases kept by Yahoo. “Yahoo! Video Search, Image Search, Audio Search and other Yahoo! Search results.”
http://myweb.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet - which adds your site to http://myweb.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo MyWeb - which is a URL I see come up a lot of times in my stats.

Last is Google’s URL’s: (I do not use a Gmail account, I use one from a domain of mine)
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview - Google Webmaster Tools Dashboard - No explanation should be necessary.
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl - Add your URL to Google
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping - Add your blog to Blog Search - I just add the Blog URL and it works fine for me

Additional Google URL’s: (I do not use a Gmail account, I use one from a domain of mine)
https://www.google.com/analytics/home/admin - Google Analytics - Excellent stats tracking
http://www.google.com/reader/view/#overview - Google Reader
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark...blank&title = - which adds your site to http://www.google.com/bookmarks/ Google Bookmarks

I think it is noteworthy that MSN used bookmarked feeds to validate a feed as worthy of indexing. Yahoo has MyWeb as the bookmarks they allow to be searched that provide a large amount of hits I receive. Google does not state anywhere what the effect of the last three URL’s I listed have on whether you will receive hits because of them, but I make them part of my marketing. And until somebody can provide a link where Google states whether they specifically do or do not provide hits through a unknown index or have an effect on my ranking I will use them.

I have a folder in my FireFox browser that is titled “Search Engines / Social Bookmarks”. It also has a bookmark for Bloglines and del.icio.us in it. As soon as I get a domain ready for traffic I got to the folder and click “Open All in Tabs” and open one more tab for the blog itself and add the new domain to all the URL’s I have listed here.

This is my search engine marketing.