Submitting Your Website Template To Search Engines

Submitting Your Website to Search Engines

Written by Erich V and published at 5:58 PM
UPDATE: January 9, 2013 - Page accuracy checked, links checked.

If you have Allwebco hosting we do provide a free service to submit your website to the free search engines. please contact hosting for more info.

View the Danny Sullivan Mar 12, 2007 submission article at SearchEngineWatch

In addition to submitting your website to search engines you will also want to optimize your webpages or enlist the services of a professional SEO company.



Search Engine Basic Submission:
It can take up to two weeks to be listed at Google. Other search engines can take up to 6 months.

Submit to Google
Submit to Yahoo!
Submit to MSN Bing
Submit to the Open Directory Project

Alltheweb uses Yahoo! Submit
Altavista uses Yahoo! Submit
AOL uses Google Submit
The Ask Jeeves/Teoma agent automatically crawls the Web, so if you have links pointing at your site from other sites, it will get included naturally. See also "sitemaps" below.



Advanced: Sitemaps and robot.txt files:
Using a sitemap.xml on your website appears to be the future of SE submission. Most professionals recommend adding a sitemap XML file to your website so search engines can better find all your website pages. Click here to view sitemap XML help You may want to also create a robots.txt, then add the location of your sitemap to your robots.txt. Here is a sample robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Sitemap: http://www.your-web-domain.com/sitemap.xml


You can use Notepad to create this file and upload it to the root folder in your hosting area where your index.html is located. Replace "your-web-domain.com" with your domain in the above example and upload a sitemap.xml to your hosting area. The "Disallow: /cgi-bin/" line keeps search engines out of the "cgi-bin" folder. See robots.txt at Wikipedia for more details.

XML-Sitemaps Sitemap Generator

Submit sitemap through Google Tools
Submit sitemap through MSN Bing Webmaster Tools (Bing and Yahoo!)
Submit sitemap through Ask using the robots.txt (see sitemaps at link)


What Allwebco uses: We have been using the xml-sitemaps.com $19.00 advanced PHP sitemap generator on our website for many years and have had no problems of any kind. You can optionally generate sitemaps for small websites for free on their website as well.



Faster Search Engine Listings:
If you want to get listed faster in major search engines you can check out the following submission services:

Yahoo! Search Submit
INeedHits.com (this service has be around since 1996)
Add Me!

You can also try some searches at Google for Website Submission.



Top Pay Per Click Websites:
For guaranteed top listings check out the following pay-per-click programs:

Google AdWords
Microsoft adCenter (Bing and Yahoo!)
Marchex Adhere PPC
LookSmart PPC
LinkedIn PPC




Hitwise Search Engine Ratings:
For more details on search engine ratings click here.


Hitwise Rankings for January 2013




Related Topics:
Optimizing your pages for search engines
Editing your title and meta tags


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See Also...
Optimization
Page Title Tags



Related Websites:

Qi SEO Services

Search Engine Watch
Wikipedia SEO

ALA Optimization

Webmaster Central
Google AdWords
Google Web Guide

Yahoo Search Marketing
Microsoft Ad Center


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Free XML-Sitemaps
Sitemaps.org
Wikipedia Sitemaps
Sitemap Submission



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