HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WEBSITE TO SEARCH ENGINES
If you think that getting a hosting platform and launching your website are the only steps that you will need to make money out of your website, that is not true. In fact, if you are on that stage, you are just starting out and you still have a lot of things to do for your site.
You still need to come up with keywords that will drive traffic, a solid SEO strategy to land on Google's first page and create your own community to create an online presence.
But perhaps one of the things that you may not know in launching a successful website is this: sending it to different search engines.
Now with search engines like Google, you might not need to do that anymore, because they use the method of crawling to find and index new pages and websites. However, submitting your site may speed up the indexing process.
Here are the different ways to submit your website to search engines:
Submitting Your Website to Google
The easiest way to submit an URL to Google would be through your Google Search Console. Copy your sitemap URL, then navigate to ‘Sitemaps’ which is located in the left menu in your GSC, paste your sitemap URL and click ‘submit.’ If you have more than one sitemap, then you need to keep repeating the process.
Just a heads up— to submit a sitemap successfully, you will first need to add and verify your website in your Google Search Console.
Submitting Your Website To Bing
Quite similar to submitting your website to Google, to submit to Bing you need to log into your Bing Webmaster Tools and then click on ‘Sitemap’ located in the left-hand menu. Next, simply paste your sitemap URL and click ‘Submit sitemap.’ For more than one sitemap, repeat the procedure.
Submitting Your Website To Yahoo
The rule of thumb is that the Index of Bing powers Yahoo. This implies that you automatically submit your website to the Yahoo search engine if you submit to Bing.
Submitting Your Website DuckDuckGo
Yet again, not much you can do here. DuckDuckGo doesn’t allow submissions of websites. They continuously discover and have been indexing over four hundred different sources. These include Wikipedia, DuckDuckBot, and Bing, among others.
Submitting Your Website To Baidu
The need to submit your website on Baidu comes up if your target demographic is in China. While the procedure is far too complex for the purposes of this post, the only thing you need to know is that Baidu accepts site submission through a Baidu Webmaster Tools account and only in Chinese.
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