Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
Written by Erich V and published at 11:16 AM
UPDATE: July 12, 2009 - Page accuracy checked, links checked. Bing info added.
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.
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:
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.
OUR TESTS: We are currently testing the xml-sitemaps.com $19.00 advanced PHP sitemap generator on our website and have had no problems with the setup so far. You can 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: