How does search engines get to those billions or trillions of web pages and websites? There are two ways they their data.
1. User Submitted – Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks or even months for a website to get crawled specially if it’s a new domain. This is because no links have been established to connect to these websites yet. So in order for search engines to get to your site, you can tell them about it through user submitted websites. Here are links of the submission pages of major search engines and why you need to submit to these top 5 site first.
Google (71.65%) – Google has always dominated the search engine market currently with a 71.65% share. In fact, if you get to the front page of google’s search results, you are set. One of the reasons why Google is on the top of the list is because of FireFox default search engine which also dominates the browser market.
[Submit to Google]
Yahoo (14.37%) – Yahoo with it’s second place ranking, can also help you get your site traffic up. Yahoo has implemented intrusive ways to get to your results such as through installing itself through Firefox by means of third party applications which is pretty annoying.
[Submit to Yahoo]
Bing (9.85%) – Bing’s strategy is good enough to move it as a major contender in the search engine market. First, it’s partnership with Facebook’s search result which is by far the best move Microsoft made. Second, it now serves Yahoo’s search result. This means less options for the end user.
[Submit to Bing]
Ask (2.19%) – 2% is still a good number and submitting to just another search engine wouldn’t hurt you as much as you’d want to or it might. Well, it’s technically easy to submit as long as you have your sitemaps up.
Submitting to Ask.com is as simple as adding your sitemap.xml
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://seo-philippines.com/sitemap.xml
Aol Search (1.15%) – Aol users are now going down however, they’re still out there and if you’re targeting the US market, it’s a good bet to submit to AoL.
search.aol.com/aol/add – Didn’t work the last time I visited it maybe they don’t want submissions anymore hehe.
Alternatively, you may also submit to multiple search engines through these sites. However, I do recommend that you do a manual submissions to the top 5 search engines.
However, you can just do a search on them through Google using the keywords “Free Search Engine Submission”
Crawling
If you’re patient enough, you’ll see that getting the search engines to crawl to your pages quite rewarding. Focusing on your content would make it a far better investment if you don’t have the budget to submit it to the thousands of websites and directories out there.
On my next blog post, I will show you strategies to get your site crawled. Thanks for being here.