Submit Your URL

4. Submit Your Website

The Basics: Why Should I Submit My Website URL?

By submitting your website to search engines you invite search engines to visit your website. You ask the various search engines to take a look at your page contents, images, videos, services and products. But, this must be done correctly.

Warning: What can happen if I don’t submit my website correctly?

When you submit your website to search engines, you invite search engine spiders to visit your web pages. That does not mean that your website will get high search engine rankings.

If you did not optimize your web pages, it’s pointless to submit your website to search engines. You won’t get high rankings if your web pages are not search engine ready.

If you don’t use your own domain name or if your website is hosted by an unreliable web host then it is likely that your website will not be listed on search engines. If the submitted website URL is only a redirection or a welcome page then it’s also likely that search engines won’t index your website.

How to Correctly Submit Your Website:

You should submit your URL (website address) to search engines, Internet directories and special interest sites (vortals or vertical portals). Only submit your website to the correct categories in Internet directories and only submit your website to a special interest site if the site matches the topic of your website.

Do not submit your website if you don’t have your own domain name or if your domain name is only a redirection to another domain. Do not submit multiple domains that lead to the same web space; although, this is usually detected and not allowed, but can get all your domain names banned from several directories and possibly the search engine.

Tips for Submitting Your Website

• Does your website have it’s own domain name?
• Have you made sure that your website URL is not just a redirection to another URL? Many search engines won’t index redirections.
• Is your website hosted on a fast and reliable web server? Search engines might not index your website if your server is too slow of if it is down when the search engine visits your pages.
• Have you made sure that your website is not hosted on a free server? Many search engines don’t index websites that are hosted on free hosting services because they often contain spam.
• Have you made sure that your website URL doesn’t contain special characters?

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