FreeSubmit2000: Tutorial on How to promote your Site.

Major Search Engine Info

The Major Search Engines and Directories.

Engine: AltaVista
Pages: 140 million
Meta Tag Support: YES
Database Refresh: Monthly or longer
Average Submission Time: 1-3 days
Frames Supported: NO

Engine: Excite
Pages: 55 million
Meta Tag Support: NO
Database Refresh: 1-3 weeks
Average Submission Time: 2-4 weeks
Frames Supported: NO

Engine: HotBot
Pages: 110 million
Meta Tag Support: YES
Database Refresh: About a week.
Average Submission Time: 2-4 weeks
Frames Supported: NO

Engine: InfoSeek
Pages: 30 million
Meta Tag Support: YES
Database Refresh: 3 weeks
Average Submission Time: 1-3 days
Frames Supported: YES

Engine: Lycos
Pages: 30 million
Meta Tag Support: Partial
Database Refresh: 1-2 weeks
Average Submission Time: 1-3 weeks
Frames Supported: YES

Engine: Northern Light
Pages: 80 million
Meta Tag Support: Partial
Database Refresh: 2 weeks
Average Submission Time: 2-3 weeks

Engine: WebCrawler
Pages: 2 million
Meta Tag Support: YES
Database Refresh: Weekly
Average Submission Time: 3-4 weeks
Frames Supported: NO

Directory: Yahoo!
Pages: 1 million
Meta Tag Support: NO
Database Refresh: Sites are manually
added by humans so dead URLs must
be reported.
Average Submission Time: 6-8 weeks
Frames Supported: YES

Please note that all major spider engines penalize for spamming (keywords stuffing). The engines that don't support frames will follow the "redirect" command and scan it's meta tags.