A list of health search engines and health links can be found here (to
right). If you have a health web site, submitting it for inclusion into the major health
search engines should be one of your most important goals...
Here is the top rated search engine
submission site.
Price-per-click (PPC) search engines listed in the left column focus on
web site owners who want immediate results. Traffic is generated to your web site by
paying for placement. Paying a higher price-per-click generally means a higher ranking
amongst other competing web site owners in the search results.
The alternative to PPC is a free or paid listing in a non PPC search
engine. These engines usually rank your page according to the number of incoming links to
your site. These search engines generally "crawl" the web on a regular basis.
This means that the search engine has a software program that automatically clicks on all
of the links in web sites that have been submitted for manual inclusion and then indexes
each page. If there is a new domain name or URL in the link that is being crawled, then
that site will be included automatically without the need for manual inclusion.
Non PPC search engines typically take a few months to index a manual
submission. However, if the domain or URL is included on a web page that is ranked highly,
then the time required to get it indexed can be less than a week!
Meta search engines provide combined results from several search engines.
These are useful for hard to find search keywords.