Site Submission

Getting listed in a search engine means that your site will be found on a list of websites that show up as results returned when a certain search term (keyword or phrase) is submitted into the search form. Submittiing your site to the search engines is simply letting them know that you want them to crawl your site, and you get put on a list of sites to crawl that they might get to a month or so down the road.

Site submission is not something you should worry about. There are literally hundreds of search engines that you could submit to, but the ONLY one you should ever be concerned with is Google. Once Google finds your site, everyone else will follow.

Google is top dog. The Google spider is constantly crawling the web from link to link. It never stops. The more sites you have linking to yours, the sooner Google will find you. And the more links pointing to your site, the higher your site will get ranked.

Google says (in their FAQ) that submitting is not necessary and that "The best way to ensure Google finds your site is for your page to be linked from lots of pages on other sites. Google's robots jump from page to page on the Web via hyperlinks, so the more sites that link to you, the more likely it is that we'll find you quickly."

Yahoo says (in their FAQ) that "The Yahoo! Search index, which contains several billion web pages, is more than 99% populated through the free crawl process. Yahoo! Search crawls the web every 2-4 weeks and automatically finds new content for indexing."

MSN advises (in their Site Owner Help) to "Make sure that each page is accessible by at least one static text link.".

If you still feel that you must submit to search engines, then just submit to Google and Yahoo. It's free, so you don't need to pay someone else to submit for you. However, if you think it would be easier to pay someone, then just throw your money in a bag and mail it to me. I'll do the submitting for you. :o)

But if you'd rather save your money, then just use the submit tools below. A paid service can do no better than that.

And be sure you don't submit too often. Once a month is MORE than enough. Any more than that can get you dropped to the bottom of the search engine rankings for spamming.

Simply enter your URL into the boxes provided, and hit the submit button. Yahoo may ask you to login before submitting. If you don't have an account with Yahoo for logging in to, simply open a free email account with them, and the username and password you use for your email account will be the same ones you use to login with for submitting your website.