{"id":62730,"date":"2019-03-12T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/?page_id=62730"},"modified":"2023-09-17T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T23:53:04","slug":"submit-website","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/seo\/submit-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Submit a Website to Search Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"
Search Engine Submission:<\/strong> only if you are in the search engine index can you show in their search results. To do that, you need to make the content worthy, then put it where a search engine spider will find it, sometimes via submission and sometimes via obvious discovery methods.<\/p>\n Stay in the Index:<\/strong> but even if you are spidered, the search engine may exclude you from the index. This is common because the page is low quality, or it has identified spam, or it has been identified as containing malware, or it has a terrible link profile, or your site does not link to it, or any of hundreds of other reasons.<\/p>\n Let’s assume your page is worthy…<\/p>\n Once you’ve done the on-page work to optimize your website, it’s time to invite the search engines!<\/p>\n In this SEO Guide lesson, you learn how to submit your website to Google and Bing. We’ll also cover the situations that call for sending the search engine spiders an invitation to come crawling.<\/p>\n It’s optional<\/em> to submit a site manually. Search engine spiders discover most webpages automatically by following links. So even if you do not submit site URLs to Google\u200b and Bing directly, the search engines will most likely find them eventually.<\/p>\n It’s more important to make sure the spiders can access<\/em> all the pages within your site once they arrive. (This is why the next lessons explain XML sitemaps<\/a> and other technical SEO tips<\/a> to keep your site running smoothly.)<\/p>\n Still, there are times when manually submitting your content to a search engine can help.<\/p>\n Directly submitting your URLs to a search engine is a good idea in cases like these:<\/p>\n Before you submit a site, it’s a good time to check on its “crawl-ability.” Use the free Check Server Page<\/strong> tool below to detect any redirects (a 301 is OK, but other types are not recommended<\/a>) and any technical issues that may prevent your site from appearing in search results.<\/p>\n Follow these instructions to submit specific pages (URLs) to Google for index consideration.<\/p>\n You can submit up to 10 page URLs per day through Search Console.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Google takes your submission as just a suggestion, of course. But it does draw Google’s attention to your pages and should speed up Googlebot’s arrival.<\/p>\n Here’s how to submit URLs to Google …<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n If you want to submit your WHOLE website to Google, you have to follow a different procedure. The next lesson shows you how to create a sitemap<\/a> and submit it through Search Console.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: Google temporarily disabled<\/a> the Request Indexing feature from October 14 to December 22, 2020, while updating its index.<\/em><\/p>\n You can submit up to 10,000 webpage URLs per day to Bing.<\/strong> When you submit your site to Bing, you also submit the website to Yahoo automatically since Bing feeds Yahoo\u2019s web search index.<\/p>\n Here’s how to submit a site to Bing …<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Note: Bing used to offer a way to submit pages without a login. That tool was retired<\/a> in September 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n Bing also offers the ability to submit URLs using their URL Submission API, which is part of the Bing Webmaster API.<\/p>\n Remember that there is no guarantee your pages will be indexed right away. Search Console Help says, “Indexing typically takes only a day or so, but can take much longer in some cases.” Still, manual submission should bring the search engine spiders to your new content faster and give you the best chance to have your webpages indexed quickly.<\/p>\n Now that you know how to submit your webpages to Google and Bing, we’ll move on to creating XML sitemaps<\/a><\/em> \u2014 an all-important and simple way to ensure the search engines can find your pages for indexing.<\/p>\n<\/a>Why Submit a Site Manually?<\/h2>\n
When should you submit a website to search engines?<\/h3>\n
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SEO Tools \u2013 Check Server Page<\/h3>\n
<\/a>How to Submit Webpages to Google<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>How to Submit a Site to Bing (and Yahoo)<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Search Engine Submission Reminders<\/h2>\n