make known your site on Internet

Referencing is the fact of registering its site in these directories and search engines so that this site is findable most easily possible among the million other sites constituting the fabric of the Web. Thus, the future of your site depends directly on its capacity to being found on the Net, therefore of its referencing. These tools of research have each one their own data base of sites, therefore you will have to fit in each the directories and engine in which you wish that your site be findable. One makes the distinction between SEARCH ENGINES and DIRECTORIES, they are two categories of site in which it will be necessary to register your site during referencing: - A search engine is a base of data made up of sites accessible by research. The Net surfer specifies a key word in connection with his research and the search engine gives him a list of sites having a relationship with this key word. The most known search engines in France are Google, Voila and AltaVista. - A directory organizes its base of data of categories and subcategories, to find a site, the Net surfer course these categories until it finds precisely the category which it interress. The most famous directories in France are Yahoo! France, Nomad, Dmoz.fr. These two systems are complementary, but radically different. Do not neglect one or the other or your referencing will not be effective. To refer your site, you will have to fill of the forms relating to it, with information required such as the title of the site, its URL, its description, etc… A referencing is not improvised, so that that Ci is effective, you must prepare your site as well in the content in the form: the meta-tags are as important as the contents, and working of the site.
You will find below the list of the engines considered as major, those which represent more than 99% of the traffic generated on Internet sites:

Anglophone search engines:
www.google.com
www.Yahoo.com
www.altavista.com
www.alltheweb.com
www.hotbot.com
www.lycos.com
www.msn.com
www.wisenut.com
www.AOL.com
www.dmoz.ch
www.teoma.com
uk.altavista.com
search.aol.co.uk
www.ask.co.uk
www.find-uk.com
www.freeserve.com
www.google.co.uk
www.hotbot.co.uk
www.looksmart.co.uk
www.lycos.co.uk
www.msn.co.uk
www.tiscali.co.uk
www.ukplus.co.uk
www.uksearcher.co.uk
www.DMOZ.com