When you start a new business you need to tell people about the services you are offering. For this reason, the website must be visible on all the search engines to grow your business rapidly. The free traffic on the website lets your business flourish at a minimum cost.
It is also not only limited to the cost but the submission of a website to different search engines is quite an easy and simple process that boosts the business. It can be done by anyone through simple steps.
This article will go through the following details regarding the topic:
- What are Search Engines?
- Need of Submission of a Website
- Basic Requirements to Submit the Website
- Submission of the Website on Google
- Submission of the Website on Yahoo
- Submission of the Website on Bing
- Submission of the Website on DuckDuckGo
- Conclusion
1. What are Search Engines?
Search engines provide the desired results according to the information searched for. The query is entered along with the World Wide Web, and the desired result appears on the screen. Some of the most popular and widely used search engines are Google, Bing, etc.
2. Need of Submission of Website
Some important reasons to submit the website to a search engine are listed below:
- It helps to rank and index all the relevant searches when you submit your websites to these search engines.
- You can improve your website by different tools provided by the search engines.
- The submission involves the URL, pages, or the website’s domain name so that the search engine knows the pages exist.
3. Basic Requirements to Submit the Website
There are certain requirements to get the website submitted to different search engines. These requirements are depicted in the points below:
- First, you need access to edit the website.
- Backend is not mandatory but it is useful for later such as when there is a need for a robot.txt file, if the Google search console is not implemented and the website is without a sitemap.
4. Submission of the website on Google
Let us check how can we submit the website to Google which is the most widely used search engine around the globe:
- Locate the sitemap of your website by websitename.com/sitemap.xml
- Once you have located your sitemap, move toward the next step and open the Google search console:
Once you enter the domain name, a window will appear that is shown below that will verify if the domain name belongs to you or not:
Once the verification process is completed move to the sitemap option paste the sitemap URL and submit.
If you have more than one sitemap, just submit with the same process one by one until all the files are completed.
5. Submission of Individual Pages on Google
If there is a need to submit an individual page to Google follow the steps depicted below:
- Move toward the third option of URL inspection in the Google console.
- Now, paste the URL of that page.
- If the page is not indexed a message will appear “The page is not indexed” by Google Search Console.
- To index the page click on “Request Indexing” which will show that the URL is on Google.
6. Checking If the Website is Present on Google
A simple way to check if the website is present on Google or not is you simply go to Google and type site: Websitename.com and it eventually displays whether the website is present on Google or not.
7. Submission of the website on Yahoo
The easiest method to submit a website to a search engine is Yahoo since the submission of the website on Bing automatically submits the website on Yahoo. Therefore, it is important to learn about the process of submission on Bing.
8. Submission of the website on Bing
The first step before actually submitting the website on Bing is that you need to open the Bing Webmaster tool that is already set up for your site. Now the step is quite similar to that of the submission of the website on Google.
This will let you submit your website not only on Bing but also on Yahoo since both are catered by Bing’s index.
If you are a WordPress user you submit your website on the Bing Plugin. This will let you submit your
content easily after entering the API key.
9. Submission of Website on DuckDuckGo
If you have already submitted your website to Bing and Yahoo automatically. Since DuckDuckGo automatically indexes the website there is no need to submit the website. There is only a single requirement which is to speed up the indexing process.
Conclusion
The website can be submitted to different search engines by following a certain process. In this article, we have gone through step-by-step instructions to explain the detailed process of submitting your website to multiple search engines.
