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Submitting Your Website to Search Engines

If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion.

Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself.

Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant content. Don’t submit websites that are incomplete. While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your website, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information of your business.

Mere submission to search engine companies does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors. One important factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots. Search engines like Google hardly considers submissions without sitemaps.

I tend to submit my site manually to the 3 main search engines, msn, yahoo and ofc google, you can do these here, note you will need google and yahoo accounts!

MSN - http://beta.search.msn.co.uk/docs/submit.aspx
Yahoo - https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_ve ... m%2Fsubmit
Google - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

You really should consider submitting to DMOZ's Open Directory Project, as well.

It is the largest and oldest site directory on the internet. It was started as part of the Mozilla project by Netscape back in 1998. If you remember back that far, you will remember that most search engines charged money to be included in their databases, and search engines pretty much sucked. The Open Directory project (DMOZ) was the only one that was free and available to anyone to have their site listed, big or small, and didn't use the data to make a profit with ads. They still don't have ads.

Inclusion is NOT automatic, they don't spider the web looking for sites. If you don't submit you will not be included.

Almost every search engine gets content for their databases from DMOZ...Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot...and 100's of the really small ones, too. Also, search software like Copernic draws results from their databases. So listing your site there will get it everywhere, especially in the smaller search engines.

Make sure you place it in the proper category. If you don't, the editors are likely to delete it.

Yes, it is a hand edited search directory and they are pretty strict with site classification and they only allow you to list a site once, under 1 single category. They also do not accept every site submitted. They do use quality control. Someone will be visiting your site to take a look around before approving it for inclusion. This could take up to 6 months in some cases.

You may have heard some incorrect or misleading information about sites using DMOZ being blacklisted by various search engines. It's not entirely true.

The sites that are being affected by this are displaying DMOZ data on their sites and are classified as duplicate content. They are cloning DMOZ's database and throwing ads on it and calling themselves search engines. They are not adding any value to what already exists. This is why they are getting blacklisted.

They are not the sites listed in DMOZ...there is a BIG difference. There is no penalty for being listed...only benefits.

Submission is pretty easy. Just navigate to the most appropriate and narrow classification that would describe the content of your site. Once you have found the most narrow category that would describe your site, click the "Suggest URL" link at the top of that page. Then fill out the form. Do not submit to more than 1 category. Do not submit more that once.

Then just wait...and wait...and wait. Once it is checked by a human and approved, it will be added.

Yeah, good advice, but i am very choosy about what sites i add to DMOZ, where as i will submit ALL my sites to the search engines mentioned. I only submit non adsense professional quality sites to DMOZ, and even then you could wait months, even years to actually get included.

I've submitted my website to the smaller search engines but I let the spiders do what they will for the main ones.

I submitted to DMOZ over a year ago but haven't been accepted yet. I heard DMOZ has a HUGE waiting list and some people have waited years to hear anything from them.