Search Engine Submission

Submitting your Website to the Search Engines

Google, MSN, & Yahoo, along with other major search services, make it easy for you to submit your website for indexing. In fact all search engines and web directories provide some means of listing your website with them.

It is suggested to only submit a few pages a day to the major search engines.

How to Submit your Website

Over submitting is one of the biggest mistakes that many webmasters make. Submit your pages no more than a few times a week until you know you have been indexed. In fact search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN actively seek out new websites on their own.

Don't submit your URL address more than once a day. Also don't submit more than five URLs from the same website in the same twenty four hour period. The slower you submit your webpages the better are your chances of avoiding problems

An often used technique is to create a sitemap with all of your main links on one page. Then, link to the site map from your home page and the search engine spiders will do the work for you by following these links into your website.

Search Engine Indexing

Once your website has been indexed your first priority should be to clean up your website navigation scheme. Be sure that the spiders have a clear path to every webpage in your site so that they can automatically update their index and include any changes you might make along the way.

Search Engine Submission Services

Remember, you can submit your website without the need of hiring a submission service. The need for using such a service is primarily a matter of convenience, especially if you have multiple websites.

To find submission services just do a search, on any of the search engines, for "submit website" and the results will point you in the right direction.

Search Engine Ranking

Rename some of your main webpages, including the filename. At first you will see a small drop in traffic to your website but, within a month or so your rankings will begin to move back up as the spiders reindex these pages. Often to a higher level than before.

Of course the best way to improve your ranking is to add new and original content on a regular basis. The search engines look for this and will take notice of your website.