Overview: Excite is a medium/large scale search engine and portal that is increasing its popularity

Excite is a very popular search engine, offering a large index (Over 50 million websites) which includes several free features such as news, stocks, horoscopes, sports, weather among other free services. Excite opened in 1995 and acquired Webcrawler in 1996. Recently, Excite and @Home network merged to form the Excite@Home network.

Excite

http://www.excite.com (New window opens)

Spidering	Excite will spider or follow all links it finds on your website and index them into their database. You can control the degree of spidering through a standardized robots governing file or META tags [See Robots Generator]
Description Tags	Excite only reads the Description Meta tag. All other Meta Tags are disregarded by Excite.
No Spam/META Abuse	Excite will not index websites that try to "Spam" their index with the same page over and over. Additionally, repeating words often in your META tags may get you worst rankings if not blacklisted
Synonym Matching	Excite has the ability to recognize and help improve search results by matching keyword synonyms (ie: free and free stuff)
Additional Information	Excite indexes all visible text, but does not support ALT image tags, image maps nor frames
Submission Time	Getting listed in Excite takes about 2-4 weeks
Special Triggers	Excite has special reserved triggers which can help assess your rankings and positioning once you've submitted your website to Excite. The following are recommended readings for determining your success with search engine marketing: Assess Your Site Indexing With Excite

Automated Submission Tool	Use our Submission Tool to submit your site to all the major search engines
META Tag Generator	Create better META Tags with our META Tag Generator
Manual Submission	Submit your site directly [External Link]