The fundamental step to boost traffic to your site is the ranking your website on search engine result pages in higher places. To rank your site on the top of search engines, your website should be crawled by webspiders (which are also known as crawlers or bots). Spiders are programs, which crawl your site and make an Index. The spider of Google is known as Googlebot. For Bing search engine, it’s Bingbot. Also for Baidu search engine, it’sBaidu-Spider. In search engine optimization (SEO), indexing your website and web pages in the proper situations is very important. If you think that you can boost traffic to your brand new website with low number of posts, sorry to say that you have to add more sufficient content which people love to read and find them informative.
Once you have set up your website with quality content, clear site navigation, good looking theme, and then you can submit your site to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu etc.
There are many search engines out there. But here I will be explaining you how to add URL or submit your site to top search engines of the entire world.
After submitting your site to search engines, search engine crawlers will crawl your site in a few seconds and will make an Index of your website including keywords, important content etc. Then you can search for your website in the certain search engines and can see the search engine submissions are working fine.
Free Search Engine Submission Guide: Step-by-step Guide to submit URL to multiple search engines
Submit your site to Google :
Google is the king of the web. More than 60% of searches is based on Google. Unlike other search engines, to rank higher on the Google SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages), it’s not enough to add URL to Google. The search engine ranking on Google depends on more than 200 factors. Generally Google crawls every site. So you don’t need to worry about the submission of your site to Google search engine. However it could take a one day, one week, one month or more to Google index your website. Make sure before submitting your website to Google, you didn’t block Googlebot from crawling and indexing using roboot.txt file.
1: Go to the following web page: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
2: Now Type the URL of your site in the text field correctly with http.
3: You’ll be asked for face to the captcha challenge. Enter the text shown in the captcha box.
4: After filling out the necessary information, click on the “Submit Request” button.
2: Now Type the URL of your site in the text field correctly with http.
3: You’ll be asked for face to the captcha challenge. Enter the text shown in the captcha box.
4: After filling out the necessary information, click on the “Submit Request” button.
Submit Your site to Bing :
If you submitted your site to Google, other search engines also will crawl your site soon. But for Bing it could take more time rather than Google to crawl your site and rank it on Bing search results. So you would submit your blog to Bing search engines to drive traffic quickly. By submitting your website to Bing search engine, your site not only be able to drive search traffic from Bing, but also from Yahoo search engine as Yahoo get results from Bing.
If you want submit URL to Yahoo and Bing multiple search engines once, follow these easy to follow steps. If you want add URL to Yahoo search engine and drive more search traffic, consider verifying your website with Bing webmaster tools.
1: Visit this page: http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
2: Now type the text shown in the box.
3: Type your web site URL, example: http://www.mywebsite.com or http://mywebsite.com
4: Click on ‘Submit URL’ button.
2: Now type the text shown in the box.
3: Type your web site URL, example: http://www.mywebsite.com or http://mywebsite.com
4: Click on ‘Submit URL’ button.
Submit Your site to Yahoo! :
Yahoo! is another popular search engine, which drives traffic to your site. Even though Yahoo gathers search results/index data from Bing search database, as its popularity, your website will receive a good amount of traffic from Yahoo after submitting your website.
Here’s how you can add your blog URL to Yahoo search engine to get more Yahoo search traffic.
1: Go to the following link: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
2: Now click on “Submit Your Site Free” link.
3: You will be redirected to the Bing webmaster tools. Follow its instructions and submit your website to Yahoo.
2: Now click on “Submit Your Site Free” link.
3: You will be redirected to the Bing webmaster tools. Follow its instructions and submit your website to Yahoo.
Submit Your site to Baidu :
Baidu is a Chinese based search engine. Baidu search engine allows you to submit your site to its search engine. If you don’t submit your site to Baidu, it will take some time to get some traffic from Baidu.com. If you want to receive more traffic from china and Hong Kong, so the submitting website to the Baidu search engine would be an crucial aspect of it.
1: Go to the following link: http://zhanzhang.baidu.com/sitesubmit/index
[You can use the inbuilt translation feature on Google Chrome to translate Chinese to English or other available language]
2: Like adding URLs to Google, type your website URL in the space for URL address.
Also enter the text shown in the captcha.
3: To submit the URL to Baidu search engine, click on “Submit” button.
Also enter the text shown in the captcha.
3: To submit the URL to Baidu search engine, click on “Submit” button.
Submit Your site to Yandex :
Yandex is a Russian based search engine. Yandex adds new websites to their database by crawling web regularly. You can speed up this process for your site, like you did for the Baidu search engine. The same process is for Yandex.
1: Go to the following link: http://webmaster.yandex.com/addurl.xml
2: Type your website, blog URL in the text box which ask for the URL address.
3: Fill out the captcha text in the text field.
4: To submit your website to Yandex database, click on “Add” button.
2: Type your website, blog URL in the text box which ask for the URL address.
3: Fill out the captcha text in the text field.
4: To submit your website to Yandex database, click on “Add” button.
That’s it. These search engine submission tools are free to use. You can view these pages anytime when you’re ready for making your next website submission to search engines. It will take some times to rank your site on the search engine result pages. It also depends on the crawling frequency, which will be decided by some factors like posting frequency, number of quality backlinks etc. Alexa traffic rank would help to find the number of backlinks your site has. But, to get an in-depth backlink report, you can use an advanced tool such as SEMrush. As it takes some time to index your web pages, so just sit back and be patient.
If you submit your site more than once, some search engines may consider them as spamming. It could result in not indexing your site at all. So, before hitting on the Submit button, do a search on the particular search engine to ensure that your site isn’t crawled yet.
Should I use automated site submission programs ?
Don’t use any automated submission programs to submit your site to multiple search engines in one time. These activities may be considered as spam attempts and search engines like Google could remove your site from their database sometimes.
Also you don’t need to submit all of the addresses of your entire site. Example for http://www.yourwebsite.com, don’t submit http://www.yourwebsite.com/contact/ and http://www.yourwebsite.com/this-is-a-post/ URLs. Web crawler will index these all of available pages well.
Always think about content and backlinks of your site. They help search engines to find your site from more than 634 million websites (still growing) and rank web pages in SERPs. By linking your site to an authority site, you can get the attention of search engines well and also increase Alexa rank. But for some search engines, you have to manually add the URL to expedite the process of indexing of your site.
Website Submission vs Website Ownership Verification
Although submission of your brand new website to major search engines is looking like easy and very simple, it is not a recommended step for your online business. As SEO (search engine optimization) changes in every single day and to manage your website appearance in search engines, you must verify your website ownership with major search engine.
I have compiled a few step by step tutorials on how to add your website to major search engines and prove your website ownership. You can learn how to verify your website ownership with each webmaster tools reading articles below.
As a webmaster, i recommend you to read all of articles below and follow the steps given in those posts. So you can drive more organic traffic from search engines than any other day.
- Verify Your Website Ownership With Google Search Console – This tutorial will walk you through on how to submit your website to Google search console (formerly known as Google webmaster tools) and increase your website’s search presence.
Submit Your Website to Bing Webmaster Tools – As you already know Yahoo fetches search data from Bing search engine, you should make use of Bing Webmaster tools in order to drive quality traffic from both Yahoo and Bing search engines. Don’t forget that Facebook, the largest online community in the world, uses Bing search results within their internal search tool. Therefore verifying your website ownership with Bing does not only help in driving traffic from Bing and Yahoo, but also helps in getting more exposure in Facebook.
Submit Your Website to Baidu Webmaster Tools – Although, Baidu is a Chinese based search engine, Baidu is one of top most visited websites in the world, as Alexa metrics. Honestly, it is not easy to drive organic traffic from Baidu. It takes some time. At Pro Blog Tricks, it took almost six months to get enough search traffic from Baidu. So by submitting your website to Baidu database, you can expedite the crawling rate of your blog and increase the number of Chinese language based traffic.
Submit Your Wesite to Yandex Webmaster Tools – Just Like Baidu search engine, Yandex also takes some time to index your website content into their database and rank your website in Yandex search result pages. By following the steps in this blog post, you can increase the traffic coming from Russia and Ukraine very easily.