How To Announce Your Site

• Your company, university, or organization main site.

• Submit-It! - A page that offers interfaces to submit to several search services from one location.

• The NCSA Mosaic What's New Page. This page is read by many, many people so be ready for hundreds or even thousands of connections for the next week or so.

• The CERN Registry. This is the most official site, as CERN started it all. Registration can take days, weeks, or even months to process, though.

• Appropriate mailing lists, such as www-announce or mailing lists whose topic is related to special items of interest at your site.

• Appropriate newsgroups, in particular comp.infosystems.www and comp.infosystems.announce, as well as newsgroups whose topic is related to special items of interest at your site.

• The ALIWEB Indexor.

• Robots. You 'announce' to them by not refusing them admission, at least at first. There are several robots that just run around looking for new sites, so they'll probably find you in the first couple of weeks. They will add your site to their searchable indices such as the CUI W3 Catalog.

Jon Wiederspan
Last Edited: February 24, 1995