Excite Lycos Alta Vista Links to these search sites are at INNtelligent. The general knowledge of which are the most popular search engines may answer the question of where to work the hardest at getting an independent home page indexed. Since any comprehensive online marketing strategy will include online guides in addition to an independent web site it is important to know where the guides rate relative to the search engines. How many guides to market in may be dependent on budget constraints. Which guides should be dependent on traffic generation as a major part of a formula factoring in price and competition.
Online guides generate visitor traffic in a number of ways.
For example, some buy advertising in more traditional print media such as regional travel magazines. But all online guides claim to be listed with the major search engines. And it is that marketing that supports the claim of exposing your property to millions and millions of potential guests. So even the least expensive online guides can afford to be indexed. The problem is that indexing takes a lot of time, involves specific skills and also depends in part on luck.