How does a website get submitted to search engines?

Question

I am not selling anything. It is a very small site dedicated to a deceased Jamaican reggae star whom I knew personally for several years. The information about her on existing sites was full of errors so I decided it was time to place all information about her - life, career and a discography - together in one place with correct details. Having already successfully corrected and expanded her Wikipedia entry, the next step is to have my site listed on search engines. This is my very first website so any help/advice would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

They all give links, but it doesn't speed up the process. Your site will be picked up the next time each search engine does its crawl - anywhere from a few minutes to a few weeks, depending on which one.

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Answer 2

You can submit your site into search engines manually... one by one, but if you do some experimenting with META tags, search engine 'crawlers' will know to pick your site up and include it in their search results. For more information on META tags, check out this website: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931

By no means will META tags get your site listed in every search engine, but it definitely gives you a helping hand!

Instead of having to go to sites individually and keep filling out the same information... there have been sites to help you! Try this site: http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html It lets you enter your information about your website in one time and then THEY distribute it to various search engines (some that you may have never heard of!).

Good luck!

Answer 3

You can submit your website to Google. While it may take anywhere from a week to months for them to index your site, your website will get listed eventually.

To do this, click on 'About Google.' Then go to 'Submit your content to Google' (under the "For Site Owners" section.) From here, there will be a link for you to submit your website's URL to Google.

You can of course sumbit your website to other search engines, but Google is by far the most user-friendly. Many other search engines may index you faster, but will also require a fee for doing so.

Answer 4

In my opinion the quickest way to get indexed is write a letter to owner of high Pager Rank site ( the higher PR have site the faster your site will be crawled ), and ask him about link exchange. Maybe some of your friends have website with high PR.
If you fill only in google's add form it will last ages before your website will cowled :(


Good luck.

Answer 5

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?... and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the Internet audience and their incoming setup. For example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages take too long to load up and therefore analog users will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users for maximum marketability, then select analog users since 80% of most resident users are still analog Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one's goods and services.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query "pizza downtown los angeles." It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where "Pizza Next Door" is ranked. It's in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

Answer 6

Every search engine give some link to submit our contents... eg try this for google http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl