Search engines for beginners
Submitting your site to major search engines
The market data for June 2010 recently released by Hitwise shows Google still in the North American lead with 71.5% of total searches. Yahoo search and Bing follow with 14.4% and 10% of the total, respectively. Since Yahoo! web search is outsourced to Microsoft's Bing search engine, the two combined amount to a nearly 25% slice of the search engine pie. Ask and ALO search follow in distant fourth and fifth places.
The first step before any search engine can recommend your web site in a search result is for that search engine to know your site exists. The best bet is for you to simply tell the search engine about your site/. The first step is to submit your site, preferably along with a sitemap, to the big three: Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.
The submission process for each is simple, although creating a properly formatted sitemap may take some work. Here are the links for each:
Each of these search engine submission processes require the creation of a free account and site ownership verification by inserting a specific html <meta> tag, or by uploading a specific html file to the root directory of your hosted web server.
Note for Blogger.com users: Blogger sites can be verified with Google and Bing web master tools by using <meta> tag inserts, but the code generated by Yahoo! is re-written by Blogger in a way that Yahoo! refuses to read. This blog - microenterprise - was successfully claimed by me through Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Toolbox, but not through Yahoo! Site Explorer.
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