The first
step to getting your site online and to get better rankings in Google is to
submit your URL to search engines. An example of an URL is www.yoursite.com.
Eventually the search engines will find your site but this will help expedite
the process.
Once you submit your URL, it could take
several days, weeks, or months for the search engines to index your page(s).
Results may vary so don’t write this in stone. Factors such as other websites
pointing to your site can affect this time as well.
- Go to the following link: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
- Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
- Enter comments about your site. This is optional. Usually I enter the genre of the site and a few keywords. Example: Website design in Hollister, CA.
- Enter the captcha text shown in the box
- Select “Add URL”
- Go to the following link: http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
- Enter the captcha text shown in the box
- Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
- Select “Submit URL”
*UPDATED
NOVEMBER 2012*
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 on-screen instructions for submitting your URL.
2. Click on “Submit Your Site for Free”
3. You will be redirected to Bing. Follow the on-screen instructions for submitting your URL.
*UPDATED
AUGUST 2012*
Ask does not have an URL submit feature.
Until recently, you could submit your sitemap to them. But Ask.com has now
retired this feature and says they will be crawling sites instead. So, the next
best thing is to add a directive in your robots.txt file that specifies
auto-discovery of the XML sitemap.
Like this:
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. If you submit more than once, some search engines may
consider this spamming which could result in not indexing your site at all.Using
an automated submission program to submit to multiple search engines at once
may be considered spam attempts and is frowned upon by search engines such as
Google.
