Search Engine Submission

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by Adam in Search Engines

Customers will invariably find your website through using a Search Engine, such as Google, MSN, or Yahoo. Submission is basically the process of getting your website listed in such search engines.

Google, Yahoo and MSN account for over 85% of the searches in the UK – with Google taking around 50%. If a listed website links to your website then your website will be found automatically… eventually. By entering your website URL (the full address including the http://) into the submission page you can speed that process up greatly. Simple eh?

For more information, take a look at
Google.co.uk - http://www.google.com/addurl/
MSN.co.uk - http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Yahoo.co.uk - http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

What else can I do?
Submit your website to the Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org. This not only improves your ranking in Google but feeds many other search engines and directories although you must be careful not to submit to the ODP too often (every 3 months at the most), as this may actually impact on your listing.