Submitting your website pages manually to the search engine is a highly recommended tool by many SEO experts. But there are many naysayers. Does it really help? Isn’t it a total waste of time? Does the mighty Google take this into consideration? Find out the benefits, the disclaimers and the process of doing Search Engine Submissions here.
How Beneficial Is Search Engine Submission?
Many people think that the search engine submissions are a waste of effort. And there is no guarantee of getting rankings for your pages even after doing this. True, if search engine submission is the ONLY thing you are doing for your SEO.
But if you are doing all the other good things, in fact, it is the tool that informs search engines about what kind of new information that is available on your website. Here are 2 of the most powerful and popular search engines to begin your submissions with:
Google
Google has a URL submit tool which is easy and very quick to process. Just go to the URL submitting page, type or paste your URL here, enter the correct captcha options and click on add URL, and it’s done.
Yahoo/Bing –
Yahoo search is powered by Bing search engine which is a Microsoft product. While submitting a site to Bing, you will also get Yahoo search options there. You’ll have to go to Bing’s Webmaster Tool through a Bing login. After logging in, just type in the URL of your homepage and then hit submit button.
Disclaimers:Â Search Engine Submissions Are Useless IF…
- Your website is not optimised for specific keywords that you want to rank for
- Your on-site SEO is lacking in compliance with recommended norms
- The off-site SEOÂ that your team has done needs more quality work
- You have not used the power of social media to reach more audiences