Search Engine Submission: How to Get Listed on Google and Yahoo

After development- designing of a websites in order to get it ranked top on major search engines submission is a great tool to be applied. Websites are submitted to the search engines in order to get listed and obtain the traffic that is the common goal of every web master. Since every search engine has its own strategy of ranking websites depending on their algorithms. So what is the best approach in website submission when it comes to Google and Yahoo, the great internet kings of modern time? Simple steps involved in search engine submission are as follows:

• Submit Directly: Submit your website via Google’s free submitting form.

• Submit your sitemap to Google via http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

• Submit your website to DMOZ, the Open Directory Project. It can take some time time before you are listed and a submission does not guarantee listing as DMOZ is a volunteer’s directory.

• Get qualified Back links from reputed websites that search engines crawl regularly. Google’s robots jump from page to page on the web via hyperlinks, so the more sites that link to your pages; the more likely it is that the robots find them quickly.

• To fully index a website Google usually takes about a month so relax, just wait and watch…

Google dominates the World Wide Web; it isn’t the only search engine on the web. Yahoo Search is one of the major search engines and directories online as well. Submitting a website to Yahoo, can also be a great idea in order to get better traffic and search engine position for your website. Steps towards your Yahoo Search engine submission are as follows:

• Submit your website to Yahoo’s Directory

• http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064

• It could take eight to ten weeks before you are listed in Yahoo.

• Yahoo Site Explorer allows exploring all the web pages indexed by Yahoo Search. siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

• One can submit feeds to the Yahoo! RSS Browse-by-Topic Directory. http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission

Getting listed in the major search engines alone doesn’t guarantee traffic but it is a way to optimize your website. Your website content and your services guarantee that. Regular updating, providing interesting content will bound visitors to come as well as the spider bots.