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Just a short post to let everyone know that you can submit your website or blog to Snap, a search engine that allows you see preview images of search results on a separate viewing panel before you click on them to visit the website.

I’ve recently discovered this nifty search engine and was a little amazed to find that Dosh Dosh wasn’t indexed and included in their search results at all. I’ve tried searches for the blog title and URL but nothing came up.

I dugg around their website a little, found their site submission form somewhere in their FAQ and submitted Dosh Dosh. This was a few weeks ago and I’ve received around 8 visitors from Snap since.

Not outstanding traffic but somewhat expected from a relatively new but fast growing search engine which saw around 12 million searches in March 2007.

I’ve just checked the search results pages and noticed that only four pages from Dosh Dosh were indexed, which was rather disappointing. This probably accounts for the poor search traffic that I’ve received from Snap so far.

Reading their help section or blog yielded no clues as to how Snap actually ranks their search results. Hopefully someone from Snap can head on over and offer some insight on the factors which determine how Snap indexes and rank various websites.

Snap Image Search: Useful Tool for Designers & Bloggers

I do however love using Snap’s Image Search to look for specific images. The image browsing functionality is superior to the major search engines because it allows for very efficient and fast browsing through the mouse scroll wheel.

You can even choose to filter your search by viewing only black and white images. Very cool. The only drawback (or some would say advantage) is the low volume of image results.

For example, an image search for ‘cow’ on Snap gives you around 300,000 results while a similar search on Google gives you 2.8 million pictures.

Snap’s Image Search tool will probably be very useful for bloggers or web designers who need to find that specific image to complement their template design or blog post.

Other Free Search Engine Submissions..

Do note that you can also submit your website or blog to over 20+ search engines each at both Submit Express and Free Web Submission.

The submission process takes 30 seconds and it might be useful if you’ve got a new website or never gotten any traffic from the various listed search engines before.