: Easiest way of submitting your website to various search engines A few months ago I saw a video where someone explained a website where when you submit your link, it would be submitted to

@Samaraweera270

I do submit any new sites I create to search engines, but I don't do it through the "old" method of just submitting a URL (such as here on Google). Instead I create an XML sitemap and I then go to each search engine's webmaster management console and submit the site. I also include the path to the sitemap in the robots.txt just to make sure for those that don't have consoles or ones I haven't submitted the site to.

URLs for the 3 major search engines webmaster management console:


Google www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ Yahoo siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ Bing www.bing.com/webmaster/

Text to put in the robots.txt:

Sitemap: www.example.com/sitemap.xml

I also often ping the search engines to let them know a new sitemap is available. This site has a little page where you can submit your sitemap to a bunch at once, although it no longer works for Google: www.sitemapwriter.com/notify.php
Of course, all this said, if there aren't links to your site then all of this is useless. Getting an account on sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube can be helpful in getting links to your site, especially if you post useful links/content.

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@Cofer257

Submitting your site to search engines does nothing. The only reliable way to get indexed in search engines is to get links pointing to your site.

Even a single link should get your site indexed, so look out for web directories (such as dmoz.org) or find some forums that are related to your niche and post a link (if they allow advertising - otherwise put it in your signature and join in the conversation).

Depending on the site you can also do a bunch of real-world advertising and press releases, then you might get links from news sites and blogs.

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@Hamaas447

These days submission to search engines isn't important anymore. Google and others crawl the web on it's own.

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@Welton855

These are the two I see out there:

www.addme.com/ http://www.freewebsubmission.com/

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