Submitting Your Site to Search Engines

You have seen all the spam offering to submit your site to all 10,000 of the most important search engines, so many people assume that you need to go and submit your site, or even each page of your site, to all those search engines. But should you?

The answer is NO.

What is the best way for getting indexed? Simply going and getting links to your site from other sites that are already in the index. Both Yahoo and Google crawl sites and find new ones with the links found on pages they already know about. Both Yahoo & Google advise this is the best way to get your site included, according to both webmaster guidelines.

Where can you get links to a brand new site? MyMommyBiz Business Directory is one low cost way, and your link will remain active for a year.

Other online directories such as DMOZ and MomLinks are free submissions. Be sure you submit to the most appropriate category for your site, for the best chance at success.

You can also request link exchanges with complimentary sites.

If you still wish to submit your URL to both Yahoo & Google, you can do it through each search engine. Be sure to read submission instructions before you submit your URL.

Submit to Google
Submit to Yahoo (registration required)
Submit to MSN

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