submitting websites to search engines

[Saxophonist]

When you submit a site to a search engine, do you do it for each page? My site has multiple pages. Do I submit each page individually so that each one is indexed separately?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

if you get a backlink or two, mention it on twitter for instance, then there is no need to submit it. However if you must then verify google webmastertools, and carry out a fetch from inside the control panel area, and then select 'submit to index, and check the 'crawl all linked pages'.

There is no need to do any more than that.

 

[Saxophonist]

So, if I have a twitter account with my site name on it, then there is no need to submit it to any search engines. That counts as a back link?
Could you explain your second sentence please. It is way over my head.
Much obliged.

 

[noo81]

You can submit a Sitemap of all the pages in your website which would make it easier for search engines to crawl your content and make sure no pages get missed or over looked.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

So, if I have a twitter account with my site name on it, then there is no need to submit it to any search engines. That counts as a back link?
Could you explain your second sentence please. It is way over my head.
Much obliged.

Ideally you need to verify your website with google and bing webmastertools. part of the system inside Google webmastertools is to ask google to index your site. The first step is to add webmastertools to your google account, and verify your site. Once you have doen that, come back and ask for clarification if you cant see what I was talking about, or if you get stauch adding and verifying WMT then post back here.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

 

[Spock]

If the site is structured correctly, you should only have to get the homepage indexed and google will follow all the other internal links for the other pages automatically.

 

[fisicx]

You can submit a Sitemap of all the pages in your website which would make it easier for search engines to crawl your content and make sure no pages get missed or over looked.

Noooooooooo!

Read the sitemap documentation. If you think you need a sitemap then your site needs fixing.

 

[zooron_sam]

Here is a link to Bing Webmaster Tools, depending on your niche it can pull in more traffic - bing.com/toolbox/webmaster

 

[DPOM]

As OWG said.

Posting links to your content on Google+ tends to get your site noticed by Google pretty quickly too.

 

[WebMeUp]

When you submit a site to a search engine, do you do it for each page? My site has multiple pages. Do I submit each page individually so that each one is indexed separately?

Submitting your homepage will be enough providing your site has a properly organized URL pattern and all its important pages are correctly interlinked.

Thus, after search engine crawlers get on your site homepage, they will follow all links placed on it and crawl the rest of your site pages.

Also, by creating an .xml sitemap you will help search engines index your website faster and not to miss out any important pages.

Here you can manually submit your site homepage:

• Submit A Site To Google
• Submit My Site To Bing
• Submit Google Webmaster Tools
• Submit site to Bing Webmaster Tools

Hope you find this information useful.

 

[VaidehiVyas]

No, you no need to submit your sites all pages individual at Search engine. Just submit your home page url to search engine and than Spider visit your site and automatically indexed your sites all page at search engine.

 

[Alan]

Once upon a time, a long long time ago, SEO firms & SEO tools used to provide a service of 'submit to 250 search engines' or whatever.

That is now totally a waste of time, in the UK at least, as 90% of searches are made on Google, so Google is all you need to make sure your site gets noticed.

I used to follow the advice above and set up in both Google Webmaster tools & Bing's equivalent, but frankly its not worth the effort, my experience pretty much as soon as it is indexed on Google it is indexed on Bing.

 

[pickaweb]

Totally agree.
If you eg share your website in Google + it will be picked up by Google.
Google will crawl your entire website following any internal links you have.
No need to submit each page of your site anymore.
All the best.

 

[karylmarx]

No, you only have to submit your site's homepage. Google will follow all the other internal links for the other pages automatically.

 

[web-design-stories]

When you fetch the website insite Google webmaster tools.. And then submit to index. It will ask you if you want to submit with all linked pages. =)

 

[fisicx]

We counsel manual submission of your site's pages to Google, Yahoo! and Bing because they have made it articulate that it is what they prefer. The search engines have implemented manual submission as a best practice to preserve themselves from dernier levels of spam.

What a load of rubbish.

It's posts like this that give SEO such a bad name.

 

[Transcription]

You can submit only home page of your site and google will index all your internal links to your site automatically.