03.30.06
Olav’s Free URL submission script
When I first discovered a web site that sported a free submission to 24 Search Engines, I got quite excited. Reading on I found it had been created entirely as JavaScipt+HTML by Olav Hellesų-Knutsen, a very talented man from Oslo, Norway, as early as 1997! Back in 1998, I was copiously submitting my website to each individual Search Engine manually, so a tool like this was a godsend. Olav’s complete system consisted of about 28 html pages, 24 of which were small javascript files dedicated to each engine.
It took me some time to collect all these pages together so that I could offer the facility from my web site. Olav’s contact details had long become defunct and there was no way I could get any help or advice from him. I had to unscramble his code whenever any of these Search Engines closed down and became a dead link, so that I could introduce an alternative.
It wasn’t until a few years later that a random search on the internet revealed that only months after the first version had been produced, Olav had been at it again - this time offering free submission to 300 Search Engines and FFA pages. In the mean time I discovered that he had moved on to become one of Norway’s most successful Mobile phone web entrepreneurs running the remarkable Esato web site that specialises in products and support for the Sony-Ericsson range.
I emailed him care of Esato but didn’t get an answer. I had to extract the 300-odd pages one by one from one of the sites that had got hold of his script. By this time a number of Search Engines and Directories were out of business and the thing just got stuck after 25 submissions!
I replaced the most offending entries (there are still some duds but they are harmless) and put it up on Arkesini.com. You can find the result of my labours here.
If you don’t want to fire-up SubmitWolf Pro or Webposition and just want a quick and dirty submission to several Search Engines and FFAs, just give it a try. If you are a Sony-Ericsson user, you may decide to stop by Esato and download some cool software or ringtones!