Search Engine Submission to Google, Yahoo, Bing and More

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Search engine submission or website submission is how a webmaster submits a web site directly to a search engine for indexing. While Search Engine Submission is often seen as a way to promote a web site (SEO), it generally is not necessary.

Most search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing use crawlers, bots, and spiders that will automatically find and index your website or blog and if your website is genuine and useful and worth ranking, they will rank your website or blog in top 10 search results.

How to Submit a Website or Blog to Search Engines?

There are two basic methods still in use today that would allow a webmaster to submit their site to a search engine:

They can either submit just one web page at a time.
Or, they can submit their entire site at one time with a sitemap. However, all that a webmaster really needs to do is to submit just the home page of a web site. With just the home page, most search engines are able to crawl the complete web site, provided that it is well designed for indexing.

Web sites desire to be listed in popular search engines because that is how most people access web sites. People like to search for information on the web. Sites that appear on the first page of search results are said to be in the top 10. Thus, webmasters often highly desire that their sites appear in the top 10 in a search engine search. This is because searchers are not very likely to look over more than one page of search results, known as a SERP (Search Engine Result Page).

In order to rank high, webmasters must optimize their web pages. The process is called search engine optimization. The Google search engine also uses a concept called page rank.

Page Rank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

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Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps was introduced so that webmasters could publish lists of links from across their sites and submit to Google. The sitemap is used to make the search engine aware of the site and the pages on the site.

As of 2007 XML sitemaps are supported by Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, and now Bing. The location of the Sitemap can be specified using a robots.txt file to help search engines find the Sitemaps.

Search Engine Submission Services no Longer Necessary

As of today, search engine submission is not unnecessary because the major search engines, have the ability to automatically discover new WebPages by crawling links from other sites. Professional search engine optimizers, such as Jill Whalen, have stated that search engine submission is unnecessary. In fact, automated search engine submission may sometimes violate the search engines' terms of service, creating the potential for a site using such a service to be banned.

You May Submit your Website to:

Google Yahoo MSN (Now Bing) Ask.Com Guruji (Indian Websites Only)

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