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Free Search Engines Submission

Learn how to add your website (URL) to search engines to gain visibility of your presence within both the New Zealand and international web space.

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If you've just launched a new website, or you're looking for ways to increase your search engine optimisation, you're going to want to know how to add your URL to the top search engines.

Add Your URL to the New Zealand Web
For New Zealand websites, the first step to take is to Add a Site to the NZS.com directory. Our search directory is human edited, meaning quality is preserved by only including websites relevant to New Zealand users, which are categorised correctly. Bringing in over one million page views in January 2009, adding your site to NZS.com is your first step to getting visits to your website from the New Zealand web space.

Get Your Site in Google
While may other sites also add URLs to their databases by user submission, the world's biggest search engine Google, does not. Google will find your website on its own by spidering your page to determine the relevance of it to certain search phrases. In order to get a high rank for a specific keyword in Google, you need to do some search engine optimisation (SEO) of your site. Helpful tips to do this are creating a link between your site and other sites and taking other steps to improving pagerank.

Are you wondering what the top search engines are in New Zealand?
The list has been compiled using a combination of statistics from Hitwise and our own search industry research.  Google accounts for over 90% of all of New Zealand's search traffic, so it is certainly the key player.  The list is not in a precise order, especially after position 5, because the percentage share is small and fluctuates regularly.

1. Google  www.google.co.nz
2. Yahoo  nz.yahoo.com
3. Live Search  www.live.com
4. NZS.com www.nzs.com
5. Baidu  www.baidu.com
6. Ask  www.ask.com
7. Altavista  www.altavista.com
8. Dogpile  www.dogpile.com
9. AOL Search  www.aolsearch.com
10. Search NZ  www.searchnz.co.nz
11. All The Web  www.alltheweb.com
12. Cuil  www.cuil.com
13. Netscape Search  search.netscape.com
14. Gopher  www.gopher.co.nz
15. NZ Pages  www.nzpages.co.nz
16. Anzwers  www.anzwers.com.au
17. What's On NZ  www.whatsonnz.com
18. Access New Zealand  www.accessnz.co.nz
19. mKiwi  www.mkiwi.com
20. Kiwi Search  www.kiwisearch.co.nz

Search Engine Optimisation images from Flickr: Search Engine Marketing, Transparent Screen and Mac + Starbucks.