The first and one of the most important steps in promoting your site is simply submitting your website address to the big three of search engines, MSN, Yahoo and of course Google. It is actually quite easy and all but Yahoo don't even require any kind of registration!
To submit your website or blog to Google just click here, for Yahoo click here and for MSN or Bing click here! Once you have submitted your site it may take a couple weeks before these search engines will crawl your site, but trust me it is worth the wait.
Once you are indexed you will begin to see traffic trickling in from these three search engines. If you are familiar with our site then you know you can track this through Google Analytics. It shows up in the traffic sources section of Analytics. They will show up as Google Organic, Yahoo Organic and MSN Organic. You can even take it a step further and find out what people are typing into these search engines to find your site!
Some of the other search engines including ask.com do not offer site submissions and are a bit more secretive about how they crawl their sites. Your best bet on that is to follow their sitemap protocol which you can find here.
So what are you waiting for go submit your sites today and watch the traffic flow! As always here at Promoting Your Site let me know if you have any questions.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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thanks, I have submitted to google but not the other two and will get on it.
ReplyDeleteI have been trying some groups on google and yahoo, joining and submitting my site and asking for comments ect ... I don't think this is doing very much and the groups are boring or weird, not worth the time.
keep the tips coming
I had trouble with your like to MSN, after many tries I had to go through their home page and search submit and I was able to submit on this page
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just thought i would let you know
Hmm that link seemed to work alright for me. I will keep an eye on it. Thanks for the heads up and I am glad you got something out of the article.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I have always wondered how to do this for my blogs.
ReplyDeleteExcellent resources, thank you, I had no idea it was so easy to submit a blog to these sites! Blessings on ya!
ReplyDeleteYou are all very welcome : ) Don't forget to check out the rest of the site for even more info... Good luck to all of you!
ReplyDeleteIve bookmarked this page so that any time i need to submit something I just go from here thanks for the post
ReplyDeleteThank you for this! I have to come back to your site constantly to submit new sites. yahoo gives me the problem usually, not MSN or of course Google.
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