Optimize Your Web

Needing to get your website indexed? Well below is a list of the top search engines and their corresponding urls to get your site submitted. While all of these allow you to manually ask to be indexed, the exact time of your index is not certain and it is also not certain whether manually adding your website will have it crawled faster. But it cannot hurt right?

Google has the majority of the search market, so it should be number one on your list.  Click the follow link to submit your site to Google. http://www.google.com/addurl/

Next on the list of popular search engines is Yahoo!  They hold about 20% of the market compared to Google’s 65ish%.  But any avenue to get to your blog is a plus!  If you would like to get your website added to Yahoo! to get crawled by their robots, please visit the link http://submit.search.yahoo.com/

Another good site would be the Open Directory Project, also known as the dmoz!  For this one, you must navigate to the correct category that you would like your website added and then click “Suggest URL” at the top.  Click here to read about adding your site to the dmoz. http://www.dmoz.org/add.html

We can’t forget about the Giant software company now can we?  MSN has loyal followers and also has those that use hotmail for their personal email.  So make sure to also add your site to their submission form so it can be indexed also.  Use the link http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

Alexa is a very good Web Information website that has a good way of analyzing websites similar to that of Google’s page ranking.  To get your site added to them, visit the following link: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters.

Lastly, we need to have a sitemap already created.  We can do this with our blog by using the Google Sitemap plugin (which is one of the vital plugins we will see soon in the “Top Wordpress Plugins” article).  It asks you to add it in what might be a confusing way, but I’ve provided an example.

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.the URL of your
sitemap here.xml

Example:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.optimizeyourweb.net/sitemap.xml

After adding your site to each one of these, you should feel confident that they will soon be indexed by each and everyone one of the previous sites soon!  Once indexed, the only thing you should work on is relevant content!