Submitting Your Website to Search Engines: Why, Where and How to Submit

If you have a website or blog, you must have to submit it to search engines. When you submit it to the search engines, it is indexed there sooner or later, and people can find your pages while searching for specific subjects.

Before submitting your website or blog, you must know that which search engines are popular and so important.

Google is on the top of the list of popular search engines. About 65% of searches in the world are executed through Google search. So Google search is the most important search engine, and everyone having a website must submit it to this search engine.

Next comes Yahoo. It's search market share is about 15%. Yahoo is followed by Bing, which has a search share of about 15%.

So the combined search market share of Google, Yahoo and Bing is 95%. That means all other search engines which are 10s of thousands in number, have just 5% market share.

So do you think that you do not need to submit your website to the search engines other than Google, Yahoo and Bing? If yes, you are partly correct. I will explain it later, let us see how to submit to these great search engines first.

As you know, submitting your website or blog is the most important thing. To submit it to Google, follow these steps:

1. Go to: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

2 Sign in with your google username and password.

3. You will see a red button Add A Site at the right side of the page. Click on it.

4. A box will appear on the screen. Copy-paste the URL of the website/blog you want to submit in the box and click the button.

5. They will ask for a verification of the ownership of the website/blog. Verify, and your website will be submitted. The verification process may be difficult to beginners. For easy process, first add Google Analytics to your website or blog, and then submit it to Google.

6. If you are a webmaster, it is easy for your to verify the ownership of the website by uploading a HTML file they provide to your website, or by using the alternative methods. The alternative methods include: 1. Adding a meta tag to your website 2. Adding a DNS record to your domain's configuration 3. Using Google Analytics

How to submit your website or blog to Yahoo and Bing?

You do not need to submit your website/blog to Yahoo and Bing separately, as now the submission to both the search engines is done through Bing Webmaster Tools. Follow these steps:

1. Go to http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/

2. Sign with your Windows Live ID

3. You will see the Home Page. Click on the Add Site button. A box will open.

4. Copy paste the URL of the website/blog you want to submit, and click on the Submit Botton.

5. They will ask for ownership verification. You can verify the ownership by a. Placing a XML file they provide on your web server, or b. Adding a meta tag they provide in your index page, or c. Add CNAME record to DNS

Once you do this, your website/blog will be submitted both to Bing and Yahoo.

Now the question remains: So do you think that you do not need to submit your website to the search engines other than Google, Yahoo and Bing?

Well, you should know that the search market share of these three search engines is a overall share, and not the share of traffic to your website. These sites may fail to send much traffic to your website and other less known search engines can perform better. So never ignore other search engines. Submit your website everywhere, but especially to search engine in your region/nation, and also to niche specific search engines.

I would like to suggest you following search engines, where you should submit your websites in addition to the giants we have discussed above.

Major Search Engines in America

1 ask.com

2. aol.com

3. webcrawler.com

4. altavista.com

5. askjeeves.com

6. Dogpile.com

7. excite.com

8. looksmart.com

9. lycos.com

10. mywebsearch.com

Major Search Engines in India

1. www.google.co.in

2. in.yahoo.com

3. rediff.com

Major Search Engines in UK

1. altavist.co.uk

2. excite.co.uk

3. lycos.co.uk

4. sparksearch.com