How to Add Your Website to Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Search engines are very important in website marketing and promotion. If you you're your presence online to a point of reference to all and sundry, then consider utilizing major search engines by making your website discoverable.

Adding your website to popular search engines is very important for every webmaster. If you want more traffic on your website then your site should be listed in search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. As a webmaster you should know how to add your website to these search engines.

GOOGLE

In order to add your website to Google Search Engine, follow the instructions below:
?   Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/
?   Then enter your website URL, comment and the captcha in the corresponding fields and
?   Then click Add URL.

This will add your website to Google and indexing can take few weeks. You can add your sitemap through Google Webmaster Tools and you can ping Google whenever you change your website?s sitemap using the URL: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.


BING

In order to add your website to Bing/MSN Search Engine, follow the instructions below:

?   Go to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx,
?   Then enter your website URL and the captcha into corresponding fields and
?   Press Submit URL button.

This will list your website in Bing Search and indexing can take few weeks. You can add your website?s sitemap at Bing Webmaster Center. You can ping Bing whenever you change your website?s sitemap using the URL: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=(your sitemap link).


YAHOO
In order to add your website to Yahoo Search Engine, follow the instructions below:

?   Go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit,
?   Then enter your website URL and
?   Press Submit URL button.

This submits your website to Yahoo and indexing can take few weeks.

You can add your website?s sitemap at Yahoo Site Explorer. You can ping Yahoo for submission of your sitemap if any changes have occurred to your website?s sitemap using the URL: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=[Yahoo AppID]&url=[your sitemap link].