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Submitting Your Site To Search Engines

Submitting your website to every search engine is an incredibly time-consuming process. There are hundreds and hundreds of them out there - no doubt, you've come across the companies who'll submit your website to 1000 search engines for you.

Search engine professionals know that the vast majority of these search engines have a very low usage rate and will drive hardly any traffic your way. In fact, it's only a handful of search engines that drive the majority of traffic from search engines to websites.

Some of the most important search engines, probably accounting for over 90% of the search engine market, are:

Don't submit to these search engines

“But there's only five of them - why not!?”

Well, aside from saving time and a bit of money (some require a submission fee), quite simply there's no need to submit your site to them. :-)

Did you know that Search engines crawl the web every few weeks (or months) looking for websites to index?

Here's how it works:

Search engines start at one website with a large number of outbound links (usually a directory)
They follow every link they come across, indexing each page they arrive at
Once a page has been indexed they follow all the links from that page
And so on until there are no more links to follow

Unless today is your very first day on the Internet, you might have heard that inbound links into a website are extremely important in establishing its search engine ranking. If a search engine can't find you by itself through crawling the web, then your website doesn't have any inbound links. If so, you'll never achieve a decent search engine ranking even if you submit your site to the search engines... so what's the point in registering your site in the first place?

Okay. Settle down.... I'm sure you are asking how in the world you are going to get incoming links to your website. Well, this is a HUGE topic which I won't be discussing now, but if you want to get a few good links quickly then there is a solution for you: web directories.

If your website is listed in the Yahoo! directory (not the same as Yahoo! search) and the Open Directory (which Google uses) all the search engines should find you within two to three months. You are planning on sticking around that long, aren't you?

There are plenty of other directories you should get listed in too. Global, local and industry-specific directories abound on the Internet. To find them run a search for ‘web directory’ on your favourite search engine. The directories that come up highest in the search rankings will probably generate the most traffic. You can also check these directories of directories:

If you are just DYING to get your site submitted to a search engine, then you can use a free service provided by Google. So.....

If you just want your site listed on Google, click here.

Another even quicker solution is webmaster forums.

Remember Day 3?

Search engines love forums because they include so much fresh content. Most have an area where you're allowed to enter your URL to get feedback from other webmasters. Find some forums, sign up, and get posting!