How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines

 Now that you have designed (or partially designed) your website, you should submit your site to all of the major search engines. So what search engines should you use, should you pay to have this done, how long will it take for your website to show up once it has been submitted and how often should you submit your site?

You should make sure that your URL of your website (Uniform Resource Locator) is submitted to any & all major search engines, indexes, or directories. For example: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Alexa are the most popular search engines, so you will want to submit it to these first.

Should you pay to have your website submitted to hundreds of search engines online? No, in fact most webmasters & internet gurus advise to manually submit your URL to each individual directory or search engine and to never pay for any submission service. This ensures that your URL will be added, so the search engine spiders can crawl your website.

To start submitting your site, click on any of the links below and add your URL (example: http://www.wildtips.com/ )
 

Best Search Engines & Directories to Submit Your Website

Google

Yahoo

Alexa

MSN

Dmoz

If you would rather use some free search engine submission companies, click on any of the links below:

http://www.addme.com/submission.htm

 

http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html

 

http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html

After you have submitted your search engine to all of the major search engines & directories it could take anywhere from a week to 2 months to show up in the searches. This is why it is recommended that you add your URL as soon as possible.

How often should you submit your site to search engines? Usually, you will only need to add your URL to search engines one time. In fact, if you never even added your URL, it would probably still be picked up by the search engines anyways. Also, once you are added to a search engine's index, it will likely automatically re-craw your site every few weeks or months. However, you should definitely still submit it to all major search engines to speed up the process.

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