Submit Site to Search Engines

If "Must . . . submit site to search engines . . ." has been playing over and over in your subconscious mind lately, we're here to help you understand how to do just that. When it comes to submission, web site search engines are usually happy to accept new blood, because it means more potential revenues from advertising for them. Of course, if you scratch their backs, they'll scratch yours by guiding more visitors to your site.

So how does website submission work? Let's take Google as an example. Hopefully you've heard of Google. If not, here - there, we just took away the box you've been living under. To submit your web site to Google so that people can search for it and find it using Google's amazing search engine technology, all you need to do is visit Google's site and submit a submission request form. It's fast and free to submit a site, but it may take Google a little while to index your site and start placing it in relevant search results. Keep checking the search results for your pages. It's exhilarating to see your handiwork show up in search results for the first time.

Submit your site to Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves, for starters. Then submit it to any special-interest sites that may have to do with your site. For example, if your site is all about pigeons (and we all know the world could use more information about those wonderful pigeons!), try going to a major bird information site and submitting your site to them for inclusion in any searches or directory listings they ma have.

If you need to remove your site from Google or another web search engine, you can generally do so at the same page where you submitted your request to be added to the engine.

 

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