How to Submit Your Site to Search Engine Manually

What is Search Engine?

Search Engine is a software program that searches for internet sites, databases on the World Wide Web. In fact, a search engine can search any files such as images, videos, maps, news, blogs, documents and many other types of files. Search engines maintain the information in their index with the help of web crawler or manually. A search engine consists of a large number of websites and billions of webpages. Today, Google is known to be the best search engine in the world best-search-engine-google.

Types of Search Engines

There are 2 major types of search engines:

Crawler-based search engines: Crawler-based search engines automatically create their listings by crawling (using software) the web. Google is an example of crawler-based search engine which works on an algorithm to list the websites using the different keywords. It maintains its SERP (Search Engine Results Page) through its algorithm, which changes with time.

Manual directories: Manual directories are human based web directories that are maintained and listed by humans. In the human based search engine, there is limited listing and full control is in the hands of human. Humans make the listings of the websites on certain basis, analyze them and keep them in the search engine page. Mahalo and Chacha are examples of human powered search engines or manual directories.

Search Engine Submission

Submitting your website to search engines like Google is very effective way of targeting traffic to your website, if you submit your website to Google, many other search engines take your website to their search engines themselves.

While submitting your website, many questions arise in our minds that whether the submission is free or chargeable, what is the way of submitting the site etc. So, you need to know that submitting your website to search engines is free of cost and you don’t need to submit your website to all search engines, just you have to submit your website to popular search engine i.e., Google, Bing or Yahoo.

Manual Search Engine Submission

Manual search engine submission may be more time consuming than automated search engine submission but it is highly recommended manually submitting your website pages to the search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing because they have made it apparent that it is what they prefer. The search engines have implemented manual submission as a best practice to protect themselves from extreme levels of spam.

It is important to submit your site’s pages to all of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) because even though the other engines have less traffic than Google, they still have millions of users. When you submit a URL or domain name to the search engines, it could take anywhere from two to four weeks to get indexed. Sometimes your page will not get indexed after you submit it, if that occurs, wait four weeks and then resubmit the page again.

If you are unhappy with your web page’s ranking results, take a look at what your competition is doing.  Make sure you are following the basic rules of search engine optimization.  Make changes to the page and resubmit it to the search engines. You can submit your pages a maximum of two times per month until you are listed in the major search engines’ results.

Submit Site to Google

Google’s URL submit is very quick and easy. Just go to Google’s web page for URL submitting, type in your URL, type in the message that ensures Google you are an individual, not a software robot and click “add URL.”

You can also submit your sitemap to Google via their Webmaster Tools.

Submit Site to Yahoo!

Since 2010, Yahoo search has been powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. When you submit your site to Bing you will also show up in Yahoo’s search results. See below on how to submit your site to Bing.  Yahoo! had a paid submission process in the past, although Yahoo! The directory is no longer available.

Submit Site to Bing

Bing allows you to submit your URL, just like Google.  You will first need to have a Bing login, then go to Bing’s Webmaster Tools page. Once logged in simply type in the URL of your homepage and press “submit”. You will also want to have the URL for the .xml version of your sitemap readily available, as it will ask for this in the first step of submitting your domain. After submitting you will have to verify ownership of the domain. This can be a little tricky if you are not savvy with HTML, as you will need to add a small snippet of code to the header of your site in order to pass this verification process. Once verified, you are finished!