{"id":1030,"date":"2011-01-27T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryanhadaway.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:25:51","slug":"how-to-submit-a-website-to-the-hengine-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/how-to-submit-a-website-to-the-hengine-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Submit a Website to the hengine Search Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hengine.org\/\">hengine.org<\/a> is a human search engine that I created. I call it &#8220;The Human Search Engine&#8221; because I put an emphasis on human-filtering the results.<\/p>\n<p>This means that like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmoz.org\/\">DMOZ<\/a>, I only accept quality websites that meet a certain standard. I don&#8217;t send out search engine crawlers to automatically collect and index websites\/webpages like Google (which is great, just a different method).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Easy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things You&#8217;ll Need<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quality Website to Submit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 1.<\/h2>\n<p>A quick checklist for the standards needed to be met for acceptance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User-friendliness<\/li>\n<li>Relevance<\/li>\n<li>Substance<\/li>\n<li>Cross-browser Compatibility<\/li>\n<li>Valid Code (not mandatory)<\/li>\n<li>A Clean &#038; Aesthetically Pleasing Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Step 2.<\/h2>\n<p>If you think the website you&#8217;re considering submitting meets the quality standards, go to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hengine.org\/\">http:\/\/hengine.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 3.<\/h2>\n<p>In the top left, click on:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Submit a Website&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The submission form is similar to DMOZ, but more lenient and you don&#8217;t have to provide any contact information. There are helpful examples for each field: Title, URL, Description, and Keywords. As long as you&#8217;re submitting quality websites and follow the guidelines to a T, you&#8217;ll have no problem getting in.<\/p>\n<h2>Tips &amp; Warnings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have any trouble or questions about this how-to or find any errors, please comment and I&#8217;ll work to update and resolve the article so it&#8217;s more thorough and clear.<\/li>\n<li>Be professional. When submitting your website, make sure to use correct grammar and spelling. Make sure you only submit 10 Keywords max (space separated), and keep them all lowercase.<\/li>\n<li>To see if your website has been accepted, check back after a few days and search your Title or some of your Keywords to see if it was indexed. If your website is not accepted, consider that you just received a free review of your website and it&#8217;s clearly not up to par and could use some fixing up or a complete redesign. That&#8217;s how I look at it.<\/li>\n<li>Do not double submit a website. Even if you made a spelling error or similar. I will correct those types of issues during the review process myself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hengine.org is a human search engine that I created. I call it &#8220;The Human Search Engine&#8221; because I put an emphasis on human-filtering the results. This means that like DMOZ, I only accept quality websites that meet a certain standard. 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