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In order for the search engines to find your website, you have to tell them
that you are there!
You can submit your pages to the major websites at the following addresses:
Google- http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
MSN- http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Dmoz Directory - http://dmoz.org/add.html
AYahoo - http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
A better way is to create an xml sitemap and submit it to the major search
engines.
The Sitemap protocol provides an automatic way to submit your
website to search engines such Google, Yahoo!, Live Search and Ask at once.
You first have to create an .xml sitemap file for your website, locating it
at the "root level" of your Web site. This is an XML file, in the Sitemaps.org
protocol format, that contains information about all the pages on your site. It
is important to update and change your sitemap file whenever you create new
pages or change the content of your current pages. This tells the SE spiders to
"come and get" all your pages and update their indexes with your new, edited,
and deleted pages. (If you are using Site Build it! it automatically creates
this sitemap for you, keeps it updated as you build your site and submits it to
the search engines when needed. If you are using any other host and software you
will have to create this yourself or have it created. Just do a search for
'create xml sitemap' and there are a few places that will do it for free.)
Why Is the Sitemap Important?
The sooner the SEs know about your pages, the sooner they come and spider
them. The sitemap file alone doesn't guarantee that the spiders will come sooner
or often, though. You need to constantly rebuild the xml sitemap and ping each
search engine when you do. (Site Build it! does all this for you automatically)
The sitemap file does not guarantee that the engines will index all your
pages. Nor will it influence rankings for your keywords at any of the SEs. High
rankings depend on the delivery of great content pages with properly positioned
keywords.
The SEs love sitemap files because they know that a human (not one of those
oversubmitting bots that submit tons of engine spam) had to place that XML file
at the root level of your Web site. Human submissions have great credibility.
So here is how to submit your xml map to the search engines:
Google
Go to
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
You will need a Google Login and email address. Just submit the file name of
your site.
Choose to submit your sitemap and follow the directions. You can also take
some extra steps and verify your site with Google. It is all outlined in the
webmasters section.
Yahoo!
Go to:
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
and enter the URL of your SiteMap in the "Submit Site Feed" box.
Then ping Yahoo through your browser by putting the following code in front
of the complete address of you xml sitemap like so replacing your site and file
name at the end where indicated.
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.yoursitehere.com/yourfilename.xml
The bold section above is your URL for your sitemap
Live
Ping the Search engine by entering the following into your browser.
http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
The bold section above is your URL for your sitemap
Ask
Create a manual ping in your browser window and click enter:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//yourdomain.com/sitemapfilename.xml
Be sure to make sure there are no extra spaces in the manual ping and make
sure you have the file name right.
Important:The sitemap file does not guarantee that the engines will index
all your pages. Nor will it influence rankings for your keywords at any of the
SEs. High rankings depend on the delivery of great content pages with properly
positioned keywords.
Note: Yahoo!, and occasionally Ask, sometimes has problems with this process.
Yahoo! will give you an error message instead of a success message after
pinging. This is a problem at Yahoo!'s end. Your only option is to continue
pinging, about once a day or so, until you see the success message. The same
holds true for Ask. And Ask visits the sitemap file very irregularly. It could
be a month or more before the initial visit.
Now that you have notified the search engines the spiders should be coming to
scan your site and find all of your pages. They look for pages that contain high
quality content and are optimized with keywords.
If you want to avoid all of the headaches of dealing with search engines and
optimizing your pages, use Sitebuildit!
