Friday, March 11, 2011

Submit Your Site To Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask and DMOZ

Google is the king of search engines and for most of us the primary source of our traffic.The main search engines are: Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask and DMOZ. Most of the others just repacked results from these databases. you can submit your site to them for free.Unlimited ads on the Internet who claim they will submit your site to 100′s or more of search engines within few days for a low price. Most of what they do is spam free-for-all link pages on the net.

Robots.txt - Creat a Sitemap

Make sure that your robots.txt file points to your valid sitemap, this tells all robots and crawlers that you have a sitemap and that they should use it. You can do this by adding the following in the first line of your robots.txt file.

sitemap: www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Some search engines do not allow you to submit sitemaps but will detect sitemaps via robots.txt so it is important to complete this step if you want to maximize your exposure.

create your sitemap.xml file for you by click one of them:

Submitting to Google

 

To submit your sitemap.xml to Google, first you will need to make an account at Google webmaster tools. Once you created and login to your Google webmaster account.


Click on Add a site and enter your domain name and click continue.



Add Meta tag

Go to the verification home .Click Verify using a different method.


You will see these option choose  one of them (add a meta tag to your sites home page for blogger).


You can choose this option if you can upload new files to your site.

You can use this option if you can sign in to your domain registrar or hosting provider and add a new DNS record.

You can use this option if your site already has a Google Analytics tracking code that uses the asynchronous snippet. You must be an administrator on the Analytics account.

You can choose this option if you can edit your site's HTML.




Copy the meta tag and paste it into your site's/blogger and home page by login in your blogger account.It should go in the section, before the first section. 

Click verify below.

Leave the meta tag in place even after verification succeeds.

Submitt Site Map

Dashboard. Add your sitemap.xml by going to the left hand side under Site Configuration> Sitemaps>Submit a Sitemap

Enter your sitemap.xml URL and click Submit Sitemap. Wait for a few hours for the Google to pick up your sitemap and you are done.


 Thank you

Submitting to Microsoft Bing

Go to Bing Webmaster Center and create a account.

Click on Add a site and fill out the form on that page then click submit.



Verify that you are the site owner by uploading a file or adding a meta tag within your HTML header. Once you done that go back to the main Bing webmaster page and click on the website you added. It should now been pick up by Bing and you are done.

 Click on Add Site map


click Submit 

Thank You

Submitting to Yahoo

 

Create an account at Yahoo! Site Explorer.

 



Add Meta tag verify that you are the website owner and you are done.

Thank You

Submitting to Ask.com

copy and paste this into your browser:

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

Then change www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml to match your sitemap URL. Hit enter and you are done.

Thank You

Submitting to DMOZ.org


Go to: DMOZ.org or DMOZ.org/Adult/ for adult content sites.

the appropriate category for your site, click the suggest URL link and fill out the form.You are done. DMOZ is done by humans so there is no need for a sitemap.

Thank You

Other search engines:

The most famous is Baidu which is the biggest search engine in China and can generate a fair amount of traffic back to your site. You can submit to Baidu here the page is in Chinese but it is pretty easy to follow regardless. In Russia Yandex dominates the search engine market and you can add your site via their webmaster tools The other big search engines you may not have heard of are Seznam and Naver but submitting.

 




Monday, February 21, 2011

Submit Your Blog's Sitemap To BING, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and of course Google !

how to submit your blog's sitemap to Google has already been published on BloggerStop.
Although for most of the bloggers Google is the main source of traffic among all the search engines, but it doesn't mean that you can ignore other search engines like Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask.com

In case of Google, once you submit the sitemap, the process is quite automated and Google starts indexing your blog frequently. But for Yahoo, MSN and Ask you have to manually ping them occasionally. So here's what you have to do to submit your sitemap to these lazy Search engines:

Copy and paste your sitemaps in a text file:

1.http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com//atom.xml
2.http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Remember to replace the text in blue with your own blog's url.
Now in the address bar of your Internet browser (IE, Firefox, Opera etc.), paste these lines one by one and hit enter:
 
Submit Sitemap to Yahoo! :
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url=http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com//atom.xml?redirect=false 
 
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com//atom.xml?redirect=false 
 
Submit Sitemap to Windows Live:
http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com/atom.xml  
 
Submit Sitemap to Ask.com:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com/atom.xml 
  
NOTE: Change the links in RED, with your own Sitemaps (and instead of atom.xml you may use rss.xml too).

you may also submit your blog's sitemap to BING, along with your blog's url: 
www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://bloggerhelped.blogspot.com/atom.xml