This is an important task when optimizing a website to search engines. Usually this task is done soon after creating a new website. There are some sites which provide you the facility to add your URL to Search Engines automatically. Actually they are worth using if you have no time to add them manually. But I recommend you to add your URL to major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing by yourself.
Actually this task is an easy to do task and can be done by no time. Now let’s talk about how to add URL of a website in to search engines.
How to add a URL to Google Search Engine
To do this you have to visit Google’s url adding page first. You can visit that page via
Submit URL to Google
In that page you’ll see a form. Complete the form. Add your website URL in URL box. Add your website’s keywords in Comments box. Now complete the captcha and click add URL. And you are done.
How to add a URL to Yahoo Search Engine
You need to login to your Yahoo account first. Visit
Submit URL to Yahoo
Add URL in the field and click Add My Site. Now you’ll be redirected to a page which has Authentication information. You can authenticate your site either by uploading verification file or adding a meta tag in your home page.
I would rather go with meta tag verification process because it is easier. Click ‘By Adding a META tag to my homepage’ and you’ll see a code like this,
<meta name=”y_key” content=”XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” />
Copy that code and open html page of your homepage with an html editor. Add that code inside the HEAD tags and save. Look at the example below.
<head>
<title>My Web Page</title>
<meta name=”y_key” content=”XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” />
</head>
<body>
</code>
Now click Ready to Authenticate and you are done.
How to add a URL to Bing
Visit,
Add URL to Bing
And complete the form. Fill out captcha and URL of your homepage in relevant fields and click submit URL.
Important: You don’t need to add URLs of every single page of your website. Just homepage URL is enough. And you don’t need to add URL twice or more either. Normally search engines take some time to add URLs into their database. This can be a week or a month or may be several months. But if you want search engines to crawl your website faster then you need to use Web Master tools. My next lesson will be how to use web master tools.
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