Site submission: why submit your site to search engines?
Should you submit to search engines?
First of all, it is not necessary at all. Well, may be, for the first time.
Why is it not necessary to submit to search engines:
You meant search engine, not search engines, right? As in Google. Right now there is only one search engine and that is Google. 80% of all search
queries world wide go through Google these days. Get a good ranking on some related keywords for your web site, and you do not really have to worry about other small search engines.
Now, when you register a new domain. Build your web site. And host your web site, you can and should go to [http://www.google.com/addurl.html]
and submit your web site URL. This is for good measure. And because you want to be honest about your home work. But this is not necessary.
What is necessary is that you get some other quality and high Google PR web sites backlink to your web site home page. Yes, that is the most
reliable and only way to get indexed by google. Because Google adds and updates new sites to their index each time googlebot crawls the web. As
soon as it finds your web site URL on another site, it will jump to your web site. Crawl and index as many pages as possible. Everytime it finds a
link in an external web site it will jump to your web site. Back links are necessary. Site submissions are not.
Quote from Google:
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Google is a fully automated search engine, which employs robots known as 'spiders' to crawl the web on a monthly basis and find sites for inclusion in the Google index. Since this process does not involve human editors, it is NOT necessary to submit your site to Google in order to be included in our index. In fact, the vast majority of sites listed are not manually submitted for inclusion.
Please visit our "Add URL" page to input your URLs. You can submit your site as often as you like, but multiple submissions will not improve the
likelihood of your site being added or accelerate the process. We do not penalize sites for 'over-submitting'. If you choose to submit your site, only
the top-level domain is necessary, as the spiders will follow your internal links to all the rest of the pages.
The best way to ensure Google finds your site is for your page to be linked from lots of pages on other sites. Google's robots jump from page to page on the Web via hyperlinks, so the more sites that link to you, the more likely it is that we'll find you quickly.
I've submitted my site to Google and it's still not listed. Why?
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The 'Add URL' form didn't work.
Google finds sites through a process known as "crawling" the web. This involves robot software that follows hyperlinks from site to site. Google
currently looks at more than 4 billion URL's during the crawl. When a URL is submitted to Google, we look for it in our next crawl. If you've already submitted your URL, your site could easily appear in our new index, which will go up when the current crawl is completed. However, if no other site links to yours, it may be difficult for our crawler to find you. Conversely, if many sites link to your page, there is a good chance we will find you without your submitting your URL. Occasionally, websites are not reachable when we try to crawl them because of network or hosting problems. When this happens, we retry multiple times, but if the site cannot be crawled, it will not be listed in our current index. If it was a transient problem, the site will likely show up in the next index, which will be completed in a few weeks.
If we have not picked up your site and it has been several months, then it is likely that our spiders are not able to find your site. If you increase the
links pointing to the page, Google will likely find your site in the future. |
If Google already knows about your site, then there's no need to submit it. Submitting a site won't update an existing site, it's simply for adding new
sites to the queue.
So what can I do to increase the likelyhood of getting my web site indexed:
Get as many back links from quality web sites as possible. If you are having difficulty getting listed in the Google index, you may want to consider
submitting your site to Yahoo! or Netscape. You can submit to Yahoo! by visiting [http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/.] You can submit your site to
Netscape's Open Directory Project (DMOZ) by visiting www.dmoz.org. Once your site is included in either of these directories, Google will often index your site within six to eight weeks.
How can I get myself updated with Google more frequently:
How often Google updates really depends on how often your pages change. Google learns to adapt to update certain sites more often.If Google learns that the main page of your sites are updated pretty much on a daily basis, it will come back, crawl and update it every couple of days or so.
So update your web site on a regular basis.
Site submission softwares, do they really work?
May be. It should be clear by now that if you can build a good network of quality and high PR sites linking to your site, it is really unnecessary to go
around submitting to so many search engines.
However, besides search engines there are things called directories. And yes, it is worth submitting to directories.
1. They kind of work like back links.
2. You get visitors from those directories too. Although, fewer but it counts.
3. Open source directories are adopted by many meta crawlers. More hits and back links.
So you should probably benefit from a search engine submitter, if it also submits to directories. Many are available for free. But those that are free
are very unreliable. It is better to submit your web site manually, if you must. On the other hand, the benefit is not worth buying a search engine submitter.If your host is any good, it probably already has a free mass search engine site submitter.
If you are in a hurry, start out with pay-per-click advertising because you can have them online immediately. You can be listed on Google in less than 15 minute using Google Adwords. Check out this site on some pay per click information: [http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/]
Can you mention some search engine submitters:
A simple search on Google will turn up thousands such. Like.
[http://www.theezine.net/sitesubmitter/]
[https://secure.directnic.com/myaccount/hosting/site_submit.php]
[http://www.donerightscripts.com/sesubmitter.shtml]
[http://www.twsc.biz/submit.php]
Here is a demo version that you can download and run from your computer.
[http://www.twsc.biz/submit.php]
It has built-in Search Engine Simulator, Webpage Optimizer and Search Engine Submitter.
I have not tried them. Neither do I recommend them. Take them to a test drive, if you wish. No harm trying.
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