Search Engine Submission

Registering with search engines

Google and the other search engines are good - but they're not omnipotent. Let them know you've arrived on the scene; be bold, be noticed and be listed.

Lost in the noise

There are literally millions of new websites and web pages being added to the Internet every day. Google is trying to keep up, but likes us to flag a major change or a new development. Launching a site and just expecting to be found by search engines and customers alike is just not going to work. You need to leave a trail of breadcrumbs and, better yet, set off an unmistakable fanfare to announce your arrival. Manually submit your web address to the major search engines to get the ball rolling...

Google

http://www.google.com/addurl

Or, if you're feeling lazy, type 'Add URL' into Google and you'll see the link you need. Google offers a whole host of Webmaster tools which are worth investigating, but for now fill in the blanks and submit. Expect a visit from the Googlebot within about three weeks.

Yahoo!

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Not as slick as the Google web address, and you have to register with Yahoo! to utilise the page, but it's worth it and recommended.

AltaVista

http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/default

Lycos

www.lycos.co.uk/inc/foot/addasite.html

If you fancy jump-starting your appearance on any other search engines just search for 'submit URL' on your search engine of choice. Be sure that you only submit yourself once in any given month as the search engines see repeated listing requests as spam, so check whether your developer has done it first. Have one member of staff responsible for submitting to all the engines.

Paying the hired help

Avoid the many hundreds of sites that offer to submit your site to all the major search engines on your behalf - they want money from you for what is a really simple exercise. Also, you can't be sure it's been done and you won't know if they've done it correctly. Lastly, most of the submission pages ask you to copy the wavy security text they provide so that they can determine whether the submit URL request has been generated by a human user or software - you can bet your bottom server that they will pay more attention to those requests generated by hand.


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