Q. What's the difference between directory, FFA and general engines?

General Engines - also call "Spider" engines or Indexing Engines. For example Google.com, AltaVista etc. For this type of engines, you don't need to submit your web site details. You just need to enter your web site URL and submit it . These engines will retrieve your web site details from the Meta Tag or the body of your web site automatically.

Search Engines work by 'spidering' the Web to collect the web site information automatically and indexing all the Web pages it finds under specific heading or 'keywords'. When someone goes to a Search Engine and enters specific 'keywords', every page relevant to those 'keywords' is listed in order of importance. The idea is to ensure that your Web site comes out near the top for critical keywords related to your product or service.

After you submit your web site to the engines, your URL will be first stored in a "temporary" database, and then the search engines will send a "robot" or "spider" later in a regular time to "visit" your web site and determine whether your web site to be indexed or not. Most major engines will "spide" your web site more than 2 weeks, while some other engines may take more than 6 weeks.

Directories - Directories are not automatically generated but are compiled by editors. A website that is submitted to a directory is subsequently catalogued and linked to one or more topics. As the directories are set up by experienced editors, they generally produce more targeted results. Example is Yahoo.com .

FFA - Free For All links (FFA) are pages in which links to website can be entered together with a short comment. Owners of websites thereby enter the registration themselves, and there is no editing board to review the entries. It is free and becomes immediately effective.

Note: many FFA site owners try to collect email addresses from the people who submit to FFA sites and send auto-reponse advertisement or spam email. At Dynamic Submission, we will only submit to quality major FFA sites that will generate more traffic for your web site. If you receive any spam advertisement from those FFA sites, please let us know and we will consider to remove them from our engine data file.

If you don't want to receive spam advertisement emails from the FFA sites, please do NOT select FFA sites, or
check the box to block auto-response confirmation or spam emails from FFA link sites.