Submitting Your Website Using The Addurl

Although the best and quickest way of getting your site listed in the search engine index is to use a link from a website/directory/blog many new site owners find this a little daunting.

In addition, because the site will be checked by an editor if you are submitting the site to a directory, then it is important that the site is ready.

Therefore many new site owners use the addurl method. You will not be penalised by using it, and if you do use it then make sure you do it correctly.

Which Web Pages Do You Submit ?

Always start by submitting your home page, do this by submitting your Website and not the page itself- i.e. If your home page is http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/index.htm then you would submit:

http://www.build-your-Website.co.uk

and not

http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/index.htm

Always include the www unless it can’t be reached that way. If you are not sure check it by trying it in a browser.Most search engines will spider your entire Website without you needing to submit any other pages manually.

You can also submit other pages you think are important like the sitemap, articles pages etc. — I don’t and don’t recommend you do.

Please do not over submit! In general you won’t be punished (not guaranteed) but it certainly won’t improve the time taken to get indexed. A general guideline is 1 page per day and not more than 5 pages in total.

I only ever submit the home page and I let the search engine find the others.

Here is the Google submit form. Just type in your URL and the submission code ( to prevent auto submission software) and click the Addurl button (nice to see they have a sense of humour) :

Submitting your Website to Search Engines using Submission Software

There is nothing really wrong with submitting using software programs. However some Websites like Google and MSN have taken measures to stop auto submissions by asking you to enter a code each time you submit (see above). What they are generally trying to avoid is mass submitting by scripts (spamming).

If your website package offers auto submission then great, if not, I would not go out and buy auto submission software. After all we are only looking at submitting your home page to three engines and you normally only need to do it once.

In the next part of the course we look at checking that your indexed.

If you need help/advice on submitting to directories then visit the site. http://www.copeconsulting.co.uk/category/directories/