How to Submit Your Website to Google and Other Search Engines

You wrote an article and publish it on the web but nobody visits it. One of the possible reasons is simple - it may not be indexed by search engines yet.

You made a brand new website with original content and tons of useful info. Yet, until it is indexed by bots and spiders, there is no way it could be found through search engines like Google, Bing, Baidu or DuckDuckGo. You can wait for weeks or even months before your articles become properly indexed and ready to be shown to search engine users. Or you can submit the URL of your masterpiece and start getting traffic in a few hours. While there is no 100% way to get into the index, I still compiled 10 ways to improve your chances to become a web superstar within 24 hours or less.

So stop wondering how to submit your website to search engines, here are 10 possibilities to get into the index of Google and others!

1. Submit URL to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools

Google killed the option of the public addition of URLs (URL stand for the address of your site or page) in July 2018. You can still submit both through Google Search Console. you need a Google account for that. The same is with Bing.

Both engines will send spiders to see what can you offer and after a while, different kinds of bots will evaluate your content. This typically happens in a few days, but you can be lucky and get into the index in less than an hour.

If you have a website with a nice amount of traffic, everything new will be seen and hopefully visited within minutes.

2. Use social media sites

Each social media site like Google Plus, Twitter, Pinterest or Facebook has its own rules about internal indexing and some of these prevent bots of search engines from accessing some of the content. Yet, in general, being published, shared or liked on any of these significantly improve the chances of your web page to be indexed by search engines. So, it's good to make a habit of sharing every new content on these sites right after publishing.

If you have a lot of content, you can use one of the so-called syndication sites, where you can make this process automated. Here are three examples, all with free and paid plans:

https://buffer.com/
https://dlvrit.com/
https://hootsuite.com/

Please note: you should have some basic programming skills for their use.

3. Blog Communities

Being a part of a blog community can be time-consuming, but you can help you building your brand, making new connections and - to index freshly published articles.

Here are two examples with free plans:

https://www.blogcatalog.com/
http://www.bizsugar.com/ (sorry, this link can't be made clickable for some reason).

4. Ping it!

Pinging your URL is one of the oldest and most abused ways for accelerating the process of indexing new content. It may not be as efficient as it was a decade ago, but it still works! Three of the numerous free services which you can use are Autopinger, Pingomatic, and Pingler.

5. Use RSS Directories

RSS Directories are another way to expose freshly written content to search spiders who are still checking the activity of these slightly outdated sites. First, you need to create an RSS feed of your site, what can be done, for instance, by http://fetchrss.com/ and then submit it to one of RSS directories like FeedListing, Feedburner or RSS-Network.

You'll probably need some aditional knowledge to use RSS feed too.

6. Use a bookmarking site

Bookmarking sites are widely used across the globe and have huge traffic. Having your site bookmarked in one of these may help to index it. The reason is simple. Bookmarking sites have so huge traffic, search spiders always check with them to find something new and interesting. If your bookmark brings you additional traffic, even better.

Do you submit your websites to search engines?

7. Site Valuation & Stats Sites

If you are pushed for time (and who isn't), you can still invest a few second and submit the URL of your new site to one of the so-called stat sites, where you can discover more or less accurate data relating to your web properties and improve the chances of getting indexed. Here are some of the examples:

AboutTheDomain, BuiltWith, CubeStat, QuarkBase, StatBrain, URLfan, WhoIs, ...

8. Social News Aggregation

Much more time consuming are sites where people of similar interest meet each other to share, read, evaluate and comment on news and all kinds of information from all over the world. Domino, Instapaper, Reddit, and Redgage are typical examples of such sites, where you can just submit your link and hope for the best or actively promote it and maybe build initial traffic to your fresh content helping to gain its position in search engine's indexes as fast and high as possible.

9. Forums

Forums are another way of promoting a new URL. If you manage to start a debate about the content or answer to a question of other forum members, such addition may give you a powerful backlink, even if it's a no-follow, as well. Especially if you used a specialized forum with high reputation in the eyes of the search engines.

In my opinion, Wizzley members don't use their own forum enough.

10. Sites with a lot of traffic

All sites with a lot of traffic typically get non-stop attention of search bots and spiders. Every new URL gets indexed within minutes and if your article offers content in high demand, you'll instantly get traffic from Google, Bing, Yahoo and other players in this field. Now defunct Squidoo was a lovely example of such site with tons of internal and external buzzing. HubPages is its successor, but any website with a lot of activity can help.

Updated: 09/04/2018, Tolovaj

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Tolovaj on 12/24/2023

I believe it's Bing in English speaking countries, Baidu in China and Yandex in Russia.

DerdriuMarriner on 12/19/2023

Thank you!

Who has the next-largest share after Google?

Tolovaj on 12/19/2023

Yes, at the moment Google has the largest share. It should be your first goal but sometimes other engines (like Yandex, for instance) or even services (like Pinterest) contrubute to valuable traffic as well.

Tolovaj on 12/19/2023

There are different kinds of bots and spiders. Some are checking if there is anything new, some try to figure out what is the new content about, other, again estimate the value of the new content, etc.

DerdriuMarriner on 12/18/2023

The 10th possibility, High-traffic sites, praises "internal and external buzzing."

Would high-activity externally be non-contributors visiting site articles and internally be contributors visiting forums and one another?

DerdriuMarriner on 12/16/2023

The last possibility, High-traffic sites, includes Squidoo as an example.

What made Squidoo become a "Now defunct" site?

DerdriuMarriner on 12/15/2023

The 10th possibility, about high-traffic sites, equates busy business with search bots and spiders, indexing and traffic "from Google, Bing, Yahoo and other players in this field."

What might be examples of "other players"?

DerdriuMarriner on 12/14/2023

The HubPages link at the end of the last possibility, Sites with a lot of traffic, acquainted me with your owlcation about Madame d'Aulnoy.

You ask at the end for readers' favorite Madame d'Aulnoy-authored work. As an IberoAmericanist, I became acquainted with her works about the Spanish court.

What is your favorite legacy from Madame d'Aulnoy?

DerdriuMarriner on 12/13/2023

The 10th possibility, Sites with a lot of traffic, advances HubPages as an example of a high-traffic site.

Is HubPages the leader among high-traffic sites or might there be other competitors for that accolade?

DerdriuMarriner on 12/12/2023

The 9th possibility, Forums, example Wizzley forums.

The link to a Tolovaj contribution to Wizzley forms gives a good example of how educationally entertaining, entertainingly social forums can be.

What is it possible for a site to do to increase the use of its forums for information exchanges and social interactions? For example, what might Wizzley do?

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