Search Engine Submissions Guidelines

Are you looking for information on how to move forward with search engine submissions? If so, you have come to the right place. Before submitting your websites to major search engines such as Ask, Yahoo, MSN, or Google, make sure your website is completed and ready for traffic. Of course, there are many things to be done between these elements, but once you are ready for submission, here is just what you should do.

You may be thinking, well, I can purchase a tool that will submit my websites for me. This may be true, while tools are helpful in some areas of being a webmaster, submissions is not one of these areas. Submissions, regardless if you use discount web hosting are not, should be done individually and never through mass submission. This can actually get your website penalized and your page rank will suffer, if the website gets indexed at all.

The first thing you need to do before you start submitting is to determine how you want to do it. Do you want to submit each and every webpage individually or do you want to do it in one go? The latter seems to be the choice for most webmasters, however, it can only be done with a sitemap. While many people choose just to submit their homepage, it is a good idea to make sure the search engines will look at your entire site, not simply take the chance that they might.

A sitemap tells the search engines the entire makeup of your website. Every single page on the site is listed and done so in a top to bottom fashion giving the “crawler” of the search engines everything it needs to spider your website.

Once you decide which way you are going, now is the time to start visiting the major search engines. When you visit search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN, you will find information on their main site that explains each search engine submission policy.

Every search engine is different, however, the main idea is to submit your website URL. If you are going the sitemap route, you should submit this URL to the website. You will likely need to submit the name of the website and a brief description – make sure this is optimized with your key selling proposition.

Remember, you want to do this legwork yourself. Search engine submission should never be done with automatic tools because this can actually hurt your website more than help it.

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