Submit your website to search engines to boost traffic.
Submitting your website's URL to search engines will provide a link in the search returns and get more traffic to your website. Search engine submission can be done by hand or with the use of a submission tool, and it can be a paid or free service. Three major search engines--Google, Yahoo and Bing--have 95 percent of the traffic as of summer 2010, reports the SEO Consultants website.
Instructions
1. Prepare the website for submission to the search engines by using "do follow" instructions for the robot text and choosing keywords and other search engine optimization (SEO) tactics, including a 30-day return visit to the site for updates.
2. Submit your website to Google. According to the Search Engine Optimism website, Google drives about 70 percent of the traffic to most websites, so this is the most important submission in 2010. SEO Consultants show Google at nearly 72 percent in June 2010.
3. Use Yahoo's help topics to select a category to submit your website to Yahoo. This site requires choosing a category and checking for a website listing before submitting. Yahoo has about 14 percent of the search engine market as of June 2010, according to Search Engine Optimism and SEO Consultants.
4. Submit your website to Bing with the use of the webmaster tool and page designed for submission. Bing is owned by Microsoft and had about 10 percent of the search engine market share in June 2010 reports SEO Consultants. These three search engine submissions cover about 95 percent of the total market. If you want to cover most of the remaining market, you can try a submission service.
5. Use site submission services like I Need Hits, Submit Express and Add Me for automated search submission. These services may catch some traffic to your website that the three main search engines miss, but the quantity of additional hits will be minimal. These services usually require registering an email address and subscription to a newsletter.
