Get Your Website Listed In Search Engines
By Garnet R. Chaney
Last update: August 2003
You've read my article on website promotion, and
you would like some quick ideas on where to submit your website? I've listed
the search engine submission pages of the biggest search engines for you here.
You can submit your own site for free.
Search engine submission is the process of making search engines aware
that your website exists. To see if the major search engines already
know about your site, go to them and type in a search phrase like
www.YOURDOMAIN.com, (for example www.garnetchaney.com), or the name of
your website "My Sleep Center"). If you don't see your website listed,
then maybe you need to "submit your site" to the search engines.
When you submit your site to the search engines like Google, or AllTheWeb,
just enter the URL of your home page. Eventually an automatic robot,
or web spider, will visit your
site to read your home page. It will add the words on your home page to
it's index. Later it will come back and read the pages that are mentioned
in the links on your web pages, and eventually, by following links, it will
visit all the pages on your site. So unlike the olden days, when you had
to submit every page of your site individually, now you do not have to
do that. Modern search engines will automatically discover all the
pages of your site that are linked to with normal URLs.
You may have heard of several services around the net that promise to submit
your site for free to 250,000 search engines. In general these sites are just
a scam to collect your email address. Most of the sites they "submit" your
site to are FFA sites, or "free for all" sites that are filled with single line
links to all kinds of websites. These FFA sites generally get very little
traffic, and the search engines have been programmed to ignore them. There is
some rumor that submitting your site to one of these FFA sites might actually
damage the "electronic opinion" that is calculated for your site when the
search engines add your site to their index. In general most of the search
engine traffic you get will come from the search engines on my list below.
Here is my
short list of the top websites to submit your site to:
Free places to submit your site
Hint: If you would like to find more places to submit your site,
go to Google and search for "submit site" and "add your url".
Paid places to submit your site
- MSN - Uses Looksmart sitelistings.
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