Web site submission information
Tips for URL submission
As you begin submitting your site to search engines, don't forget two important steps:
- Deep Submission
Search engines claim their spiders follow all the links in the sites they visit, indexing every page linked to the home page. But many submission gurus debate this statement. To be safe, it's a good idea to submit every page in your site independently, a practice known as deep submission .
Deep submission ensures that all your pages will be indexed. However, since many sites consider the practice of submitting numerous pages each day to be spam, use the table below to determine how many pages you can safely submit per day.
- Logging
Always record the date, time and outcome of your submissions. You can use these logs to decide when to submit next. Your records will also come in handy of you ever need to e-mail a search engine representative to follow up on a slow listing process. Yahoo! for example, always asks for the exact date of a page's submission when considering questions from webmasters.
How much, how long and when?
Search engines vary in all sorts of ways -- they use different indexing formulas, require varying amounts of time to index sites, and apply different definitions of spam. For example, Google allows webmasters to submit an unlimited number of pages per day, while AltaVista allows a maximum of five submissions per day.
The following table provides information about submitting your site to top search engines.
Site submission information:
Search Engine |
Maximum pages allowed per day
(for deep submission) |
Time required for indexing
(search engines' estimates) |
Time required for indexing
(empirical estimates) |
Additional information |
AltaVista |
5 |
28 days |
1 month |
Pages that weren't submitted will take longer to get indexed. |
Google |
5 |
Not mentioned |
3-4 weeks |
|
Hotbot |
50 |
3-7 weeks |
3-8 weeks |
Consider Inktomi's paid inclusion program |
Lycos |
No limit* |
Not mentioned |
3-6 weeks |
Submit to Fast at
http://www.alltheweb.com. |
• Note : Some search engines say they'll accept an unlimited number of page submissions each day. However, to guard against any possibility of being penalized for spamming. It may take a while before search engines index you. Submit your site and wait patiently. If your rankings don't go up after two months, re-optimize and resubmit your site.
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