How long will FFAs, directories or search engines list my URL?
Directories and search engines are the best place to have your sites listed on. They have a variety of conditions for indexing & re-indexing sites on there engines. If you meet their criteria your site will stay ranked, if you do not they will drop your site. Search engines use crawlers to compile lists for users based on user input keyword matches. They check information on web site pages, including meta tags. Directories are compiled by humans. They compile list of matches to users based on site submission description. Hybrid Search Engines are search engines that maintain an associated directory. If your site is included in a search engine’s directory is probably a combination of luck and quality. You can “submit” your site for review, however there is no guarantee that it will be accepted. Reviewers often research sites submitted to announcement sites, and may choose to add sites that are interesting to a category. Free for All’s (FFA’s) limit the number of listings on there sites,
