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Submitting Your Website To Search Engines

By: Stephen Cope, Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:41:36 PM

To get found on the Internet you need to be listed in the Major Search engines. So how do you get in the search engines in the first place. Well you simply submit your site! But is that the best way?

Submitting You Website to Search engines is free in most cases and isn't difficult. All of the major search engines have a Website submitting page usually called addurl , where you can submit your Website for free.

However before submitting your Website it is a good idea to prepare a small text file with your Website details. This should include the following:

Name of Website: e.g. http://www.build-your-Website.co.uk

Description of Website: Making your own Website made easy! Learn how make your own Website the easy way-

Meta tags: making your own Website, make your own Website

Your email address: steve-badaddress@build..

By doing this you can save yourself a lot of typing as each time that your submit your Website to a search engine you will be asked to enter some or all of those details. Now when submitting your Website all you need to do is to copy and paste from your text file.

In addition to saving you time it also means that you avoid typing errors when submitting and also inconsistencies between search engines.

If, when submitting to a particular search engine it asks for details that you don't have in your text file just add them there and you will have them for the future.

One of the most common questions I get asked is how many search engines are there and do I need to submit to all of them? Well there are literally thousands of search engines and No! - you don't need to submit to all of them, only to the top 3- Google,Yahoo,and MSN (links here).

So don't go and buy software offering to submit your site to 1000s or 100s of search engines- you don't need it!

So what happens next? Well most people new to the web expect to submit their Website and then go to the search engine search page and search for it- hey presto- its there. No sorry-It doesn't work that way. After submitting comes the waiting, and that can be weeks and even months! Expect a minimum of 2 weeks maximum of 8 weeks for Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Submitting your website to the major engines isn't difficult but is it the best way? What pages do you submit and how do you find out if your site has been indexed? Find out in Submitting to search engines Part2.

About the author: Stephen Cope is a freelance technical trainer and the webmaster of several websites.You can get more website making tips and articles on how to make your own website  at http://www.build-your-website.co.uk.

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