Topic Category: Web Site Submission
Submitting a web site to search engines is easy to do, but how often should you submit? Is manual or automated submission better, and what happens after a site is submitted? In this topic category, you'll find articles that provide the answers to these kinds of questions about web site submission.
May 08, 2007
Teaching New Tricks to Old Robots, New Robots.txt Command for SEOs.
By Scott Goodyear
Sitemaps.org, a collaborative effort by Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google, has announced a change in robots.txt usage. The new change should allow you to tell participating saerch engines where you keep the sitemap on you site. The usage is fairly simple and it is likely that most other engines will soon support this standard.
December 07, 2006
How to Identify Legitimate Search Robots
by Richard Drawhorn
Everybody knows that search engines use search robots to locate and index content, and webmasters should certainly allow them to do so. However, given the fact that not all robots are harmless, how do you validate that a robot is authentic? This topic has come up on the search blogs for both Google and MSN recently, and in this brief post I'll summarize their advice on how to identify their robots.
April 24, 2006
Should I Submit Again?
By Scott Goodyear
Have you launched a new web site for yourself or a client, submitted to the search engines, waited a few months, and were left wondering if the site had gotten into the search engines? Maybe you've found the URL you've submitted but don't know if they've only picked up the URL, or if they had picked up the content from your pages? You may also be wondering from time to time whether you should resubmit or not? In this article, we will explore some of the methods that you might use to answer these questions.
February 14, 2006
Plan Ahead and Submit Early: Lesson from the Super Bowl
By Scott Goodyear
Reprise Media, an SEM services firm, has released a Super Bowl Search Marketing Scorecard examining the disconnect or connectedness of Super Bowl 2006 advertisers. In this score card they ranked sites for the use of a site URL in their ad, the quality or quantity of pages found for the advertiser's sites, their use of sponsored/PPC advertisements in the search engines, and other factors.
March 15, 2001
How Often Should I Submit?
As a rule you will only want to resubmit your Web site each time you update or change it and only if you are not ranking well. The search engines will not be instantly aware of the changes you made to your Web site. Therefore, you will generally want to tell the engine about your changed pages by re-submitting them. You can go to each search engine and individually submit each of your pages, or you can use WebPosition Gold's Submitter to create Missions to do it automatically.
March 15, 2001
Is Submitting Manually Better?
If you have a lot of extra time on your hands, you could submit your pages manually to the search engines each time you change your content. However, this can be time consuming if you are trying to optimize for many search engines on a regular basis. It is also prone to error since you must re-type the URLs each time correctly, or at least paste them in one by one.
March 15, 2001
Why Can't I Get Indexed by the Search Engines?
Unfortunately, this is an all too common question. If it makes you feel any better, you're not the only one frustrated about the length of time it takes to be indexed, or the many pitfalls involved. It often takes anywhere from two days to as much as six months to be listed on a search engine. For example, last month Excite finally updated its index for the first time since last August! Luckily, Excite is the most extreme case lately, but waiting several weeks to a month can also be extremely frustrating.
April 15, 2000
Which is Better: Manual Submission or Automated?
Besides illustrating WebPosition Gold's market leadership, the I-Search survey presented some opinions that, at first glance, might be surprising. Most notably, 84% of those surveyed submit their sites manually. Many claimed that it's more effective than automated submissions.
August 15, 1999
How to Get Your Pages Indexed and Then Keep Them That Way
As the previous article mentioned, it is an important first step to get your Web site indexed and then to keep it indexed. Here are a number of techniques you should consider to make sure your pages are not among the majority of Web pages that are not found in any search engine:
November 15, 1998
What really happens after you submit?
Recently a customer e-mailed me with the following question:
"What exactly happens when one of the search engines spiders a site? I'm really not clear on what info is stored by the search engine to allow a certain keyword to be indexed. I guess what I'm asking is, for example, this URL is spidered http://www.intothewind.com/kites.html and then after the search engine has indexed the site, I do a search for the keyword kite. What exactly happens within the search engine when I hit the search button to cause that page to come up in a certain position?"
