Search engine submission is not necessary any more for major search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo! Search. However, it is still worth adding your site to major directories (see below).As for auto-submit services? Don't bother!
Search Engine Submission
based on article Submit Your Site To The World by Steve M Nash
SUBMIT YOUR SITE TO 10,000 SEARCH ENGINES!!!
NO, don't bother! It's a waste of time, and you'll probably just receive lots of unwanted email.
You don't even have to submit your site to major search engines like Google, Yahoo! or MSN these days. Just make sure your site gets links from sites already listed on these search engines.
Instead, hand-submit your site to important directories (i.e. DMOZ and a few others), monitor your results, and resubmit only if your site isn't listed yet.
Repeat this process for any new content you create. (Make sure all new content is listed on your site's sitemap, and that a link to the sitemap can be found on the homepage.)
DON'T Submit Your Site To Google, Yahoo!, MSN
Nowadays, your site must be listed on Google, Yahoo! and MSN, agreed! These three search engines are now *the* dominant search engines on the web, and account for the majority of search engine traffic that your site is likely to receive.
Submission to these search engines is easy and you need only submit your home page. Other pages, linked to from the home page, will then get added to the search engine's database over time.
Actually, you don't have to submit your site to Google, MSN, and Yahoo! (The search engines prefer that you don't). It may well find your site anyway, especially if another site (already on Google, MSN, or Yahoo!) has links to your site.
It is worth reading what these search engines says about getting your site listed, though:
- Google Search for Webmasters
Do Add Your Site Here!
Once your site is listed on the major search engines, you should hand-submit your site to these other major search directories, also:
- Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
- Yahoo! directory
- Strongest Links Directories - Listed by Alexa traffic ranking.
Note: regional (and maybe more appropriate) versions of the above search engines exist too.
Don't Use A Search Engines Submission Tool!
AddMe.com has a free search engine submission tool.
The free tool - the first auto-submit tool I ever used!! - submits your site to 13 major search engines. Whilst the paid-for professional tool submits your site each month to 2000 search engines and classifieds
- http://www.addme.com/submission.htm
However, I recommend you don't use it! But it's your choice!
Search Engine Submission Basics
I suggest to you that search engine submission is as simple as 1 - 2 - 3:
- Create quality web pages that your site visitors like AND that the search engines (and directories) like - visit this search engine optimisation page
- Find at least one site listed on the major search engines, and get an inbound link from that site to your site (find out how here - about reciprocal linking.)
- Slowly, over time, add your site to the important directories too
As long as your site is indexed on search engines like Google, then there's no need to keep on submitting new pages. Just make sure you maintain a site map, that is accessible from the home page, and add your new pages to the site map as and when you create them. (Read this article to find out how to promote new site content.)
Monitor Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS)
After a month or so, check to see if your site exists on the major search engines. (Do a search for your website URL; e.g. do a search for www.yourwebsitename.com .)
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