Site Submission to Search Engines

byLCJohn

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Updated 9 years ago

You built a site and now you need people to find it. The only way of doing this besides visiting two-billion people personally is to get you site URL to the search engines.

If you did absolutely nothing but searched your own sites URL the search engines would eventually find your site, but I'm going to show one way that will help expedite the process.

Understand that the way I'm showing you could take several days, weeks, or months for the search engines to index your page(s). The results may vary so don’t write what I say in stone. Factors such as other websites pointing to your site can affect this time as well.

Submit your URL to Google:

1. Go to the following link: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
2. Sign in to your Google account (i.e. Gmail)
3. Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
4. Enter the captcha text shown in the box
5. Select “Add URL”

Submit your URL to Bing:

1. Go to the following link: http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
2. Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
3. Enter the captcha text shown in the box
4. Select “Submit URL”

Submit your URL to Yahoo:

1. Go to the following link: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
2. Click on “Submit Your Site for Free”
3. You will be redirected to Bing. Follow the instructions for submitting your URL. Just because you submit to Bing does not necessarily add you to Yahoo.

Getting your site indexed by Ask.com:

Ask does not have an URL submit feature. Up until sometime around 2012 you could submit your Sitemap to them. But, Ask.com has done away with that feature and says they will only be crawling sites from now on. So, here is a way to expedite getting your site into Ask.com. Create and add a directive in your robots.txt file that specifies auto-discovery of your sites XML sitemap.

Copy and paste this short snippet and put it in robots.txt file:

SITEMAP: http://www.the-URL/of-your-sitemap/here.xml

Replace the bold area with your sites information. The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL.

That’s it! Once you complete the above steps, just sit back and be patient. It takes time for the search engines to index your pages. DO NOT submit more than once as this could be taken a spamming by some search engines, and result in your site being banned.

Do Not Use an Automated Submission Program

Using an automated submission program to submit to multiple search engines at once may be considered spam attempts as well. Be patient, don't risk getting your site banned by jumping the gun by wanting things done three days ago.

Also note, that you do not have to add all of your URL addresses for your entire site. For example, you do not need to add http://www.yoursite.com/about.hml and http://www.yoursite.com/contact.hml. Just enter the home page URL and let the engines do the rest.