Your domain's website address, or URL (Uniform Resource Locator), serves as a site identifier on the internet. Therefore, it is important for you to submit your site address to search engines like Google, so that search engines know where your site is. This way, internet users will be able to find your site when they do a search. Google lets you promote your site for free by adding an address to their system. Apart from that, you can also use various ways to enter a URL into Google.
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Method 1 of 3: Sending Direct URLs Via Google
Step 1. Visit the Google URL submission page by following these steps:
- Go to the start page of the Google search engine.
- Click the "Business Solutions" link at the bottom of the page.
- Under the "Business essentials" heading, click the "More business products" link.
- Under the "Webmaster tools" header, click the "Submit Your Content" link.
- Under the "Website Owner" heading, click the "Participate" link.
- Under the "Web" heading, find and click the "Add your URL" link.
- In addition to following the steps above, you can enter the address "www.google.com/addurl/" into your browser's address bar to reach the same page. If you are not signed in to your Google account, you will be asked to enter your account information.
Step 2. Enter the full URL of your website into the "URL" box
Step 3. Enter curly letters to ensure that you are submitting the URL manually, instead of using a machine trying to crawl the system
Step 4. Click "Add URL"
The process of adding a URL may take up to 60 days, and Google does not guarantee whether your URL will be added.
Method 2 of 3: Submit Express
Step 1. If you want to add URLs to Google and other search engines (like Yahoo and Bing), visit Submit Express
Step 2. Enter the full URL of your website into the "URL" box
Step 3. Enter additional information about yourself, such as your email address, name, phone number, and country of residence
Step 4. Enter the letters in the image correctly in the text box next to the image
Step 5. Check the checkbox to receive newsletters from Submit Express (optional)
In addition to newsletters, Submit Express may also send you information on how to promote your site.
Step 6. Click "Submit Now"
Submit Express will display the progress of submitting the URL to various search engines, including Google.
Method 3 of 3: My Submitter
Step 1. Visit the My Submitter homepage
Step 2. Enter your site URL and email address into the appropriate fields
Step 3. Check the checkbox next to the name of the search engine to enter your URL into that search engine
In addition to Google, you can InfoTiger, ExactSeek, Websquash, and other search engines as a destination.
Step 4. Answer the math problems on the page to make sure that you are human
Step 5. Check the checkbox to agree to the terms of use of My Submitter
Step 6. Click the "Submit My Site" button
Your URL will be sent to the search engine you choose.
Step 7. Test
Warning
- It's a good idea to copy and paste the URL from your browser's address bar (including a prefix like "http:"), instead of entering it manually. Google may reject incomplete or misspelled URLs because their servers can't access your content.
- Do not submit your link more than once in 60 days. Resubmitting links too often may lead Google to regard your site as spam, and cause it to be blocked from search results.
