85/247 Ways TO Get Traffic
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85. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.
Here’s a quick list of some of the top search engines, just as info. There are hundreds of search engines, and you may notice I didn’t put the big three here… I will add the instructions at the bottom.
| AlltheWeb | www.alltheweb.com | Submit at www.alltheweb.com/help/webmaster/submit-site. |
| AltaVista | www.altavista.com | Submit at www.altavista.com/addurl/. |
| AOL Search | search.aol.com | Submit via Google (www.google.com/addurl/). |
| Ask.com | www.ask.com | Does not accept site submissions. |
| Best of the Web | www.botw.org | Paid submittal at www.botw.org/helpcenter/submitcommercial.aspx. |
| Bing | www.bing.com | Submit at www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx |
| Gigablast | www.gigablast.com | Submit at www.gigablast.com/indexphp?subPage=addUrl&page=about&. |
| JoeAnt | www.joeant.com | Submit at www.joeant.com/suggest.html. |
| Open Directory | www.dmoz.org | Go to appropriate category page and click Suggest URL. |
| Starting Point | www.stpt.com | Paid submittal at www.stpt.com/directory/addsite.htm. |
| Wikia Search | search.wikia.com | Click the Add button on any relevant search results page. |
This will give you some great places to start. Manually submitting your site to the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing gives you some advantages above non-indexed sites. It will make sures that the search engines will crawl your site, and can help your site get into an index faster. Think of it as moving your site to the front of the search line. A little time consuming, but good for getting noticed, and getting noticed, gets you traffic
Submitting Your Site to Windows Live Search
Google and Yahoo! are just two of the big three search engines; you should also submit your site to Windows Live Search. Go to http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx and enter your entire site URL into the box (including the http://) and then click the Submit URL button. As with the Google and Yahoo! submission services, Live Search’s MSNBot crawler will be instructed to crawl your site and index all the internal pages linked from yo
Submitting Your Site to Yahoo!
Submitting your website to Yahoo! is an equally simple process. Point your web browser to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit/. Here you have the option of submitting the URL for a website or for a blog or website feed. You’ll probably use the former, although if your site has an RSS feed, you can achieve better ongoing results by submitting the URL of the feed instead.
Submitting Your Site to Google
To submit your site to the Google index, all you have to do is go to google.com/addurl. Enter the URL for your home page into the appropriate box (including the http://), add any comments you might have about your site, and then click the Add URL button. Google will now add your site to the Googlebot crawl list, and your site will appear in appropriate search results.
There you have it. Hopefully that covers the majority of your questions, but as always please feel free to leave comments, and ideas. Until tomorrow, have a great night!!! DL
Traffic, traffic, traffic!!! DL