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. View the Danny Sullivan Mar 12, 2007 submission article at SearchEngineWatch 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 your sitemap through Google Tools Submit your sitemap through Yahoo! Site Explorer Submit your sitemap through MSN Bing Webmaster Tools Submit your sitemap through Ask using Ping or the robots.txt (see sitemaps at link) 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: 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 Yahoo! Search Marketing Microsoft adCenter Marchex Adhere Pay-per-click Hitwise Search Engine Ratings: For more details on search engine ratings click here. Related Topics: Optimizing your pages for search engines Editing your title and meta tags See Also... Optimization Page Title Tags Related Websites: MarketLeap Search Engine Watch Wikipedia SEO ALA Optimization Webmaster Central Google AdWords Google Web Guide Yahoo Search Marketing Sitemaps: Free XML-Sitemaps Sitemaps.org Wikipedia Sitemaps Sitemap Submission Google AdSense Templates Web templates for Google AdSense. AllwebcoDesign.com Allwebco Web Templates Complete websites with built in scripts. AllwebcoDesign.com Photo Gallery Templates Wesite templates for photographers. AllwebcoDesign.com Shopping Cart Templates Professional templates with built-in Paypal. AllwebcoDesign.com