Submit Your Blog to All Search Engines (Top 15 Search Engines)

So that you have established your blog or site and have a lot of good content and you find that you are getting much traffic or are not sure if all of the search engines know how to find you because organic search traffic should be one of your traffic sources (even though you should have multiple traffic sources) .  There are ways to find out how many pages Google has indexed or Bing has indexed and this blog will discuss on how to speed up the process or manually submit your blog to all search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Aol, Mywebsearch, Blekko, and all of the search engines which are considered the top 15 search engines as of August 2013.  The source of my top 15 list can be found here :

Remember back in the days before Google when you had so many choices in Search Engines. Well you still do technically.

Submit Your Blog to All Search Engines

(Top 15 Search Engines)

Ok we will start with the Big G (Google). Let me tell what I did to get 540 pages indexed on google so far.  I installed a wordpress plugin called Google Sitemap which creates a file like this one sitemap.xml and will index all of pages, posts, categories and more. This feeds into Google and Bing mostly. Don't worry if Bing indexes less as their webcrawler seems to take longer than Google which will index pages like the next day after they are created. This takes time !

How to Submit Manually to Search Engines

(this is listed in order for the top #1 to #15)

1) Google

Google's URL submit is very quick and easy.  Just go to Google's web page for URL submitting, type in your URL, type in the message that ensures Google you are an individual not a software robot and click "add URL." You can also submit your site map to Google via their Webmaster Tools.

2) Bing (formerly MSN Search)

Bing allows you to submit your URL, just like Google and Yahoo!.  Go to Bing's site submission page, type in the URL of your homepage (this is different than Google and Yahoo!).  MSNBot will follow the links from your homepage to all of the pages on your site.  Bing also requires you to identify yourself as a person, not an automated program, by typing the characters that you see in the picture. http://search.msn.co.za/docs/submit.aspx

3) Yahoo! (good luck trying to get into Yahoo if you do Free Submission)

At Yahoo! you can submit your URLs for free, just like at Google.  Go to Yahoo's URL submission page, type in your URL and click "submit feed.  You can also submit your website's site map.  Type in your domain name, http://<your domain name>/sitemapxml.aspx and click "submit feed". Their submission is more like a request to be accepted and Yahoo! does not accept all websites especially if you have a commercial site. Yahoo! Directory also has a paid submission process.  The cost is $299 annually for each directory listing that you submit.   We recommend submitting your site to the Yahoo! Directory if you are a commercial site.  Yahoo! guarantees that your submission will be reviewed within seven business days.  If your listing is accepted, the annual fee will reoccur in subsequent years.

4) Ask.com

Ask does not have an URL submit feature. Until recently, you could submit your sitemap to them. But Ask.com has now retired this feature and says they will be crawling sites instead. So, the next best thing is to add a directive in your robots.txt file that specifies auto-discovery of the XML sitemap. Like this: SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL. That’s it! Once you complete the above steps, just sit back and be patient. It takes time for the search engines to index your pages. If you submit more than once, some search engines may consider this spamming which could result in not indexing your site at all.

5) AOL Web Search

AOL Search is a hierarchical Web directory, organized by subject. All user-submitted Web content is maintained by the Open Directory Project (http://www.dmoz.org). The Open Directory Project is run by a staff of volunteer editors who evaluate and classify websites in one or more categories and exercise the option of choosing to add a site, moving sites between categories and creating new sites. In other words suggest your site to the DMOZ.

6) MyWebSearch

This one is powered by Google so if you Google is indexing your site already then you should see similar results when you search here.

7) Blekko

Blekko does not  currently accept URL submissions. They discover and add new sites to their index by link-crawling. Their crawler is named ScoutJet. You can see information about ScoutJet here: http://www.scoutjet.com/ Basically you just need to make sure that you allow ScoutJet to crawl your site, and then they will need to discover it via links from other sites.

8) Lycos

There used to be a submissions page for Lycos search engine but not it's like most of the other sites which have their own crawler but http://www.entireweb.com claims that it will submit to this site for FREE.

9) DogPile

Dogpile is a search engine that operates on metasearch technology. This means that search results in Dogpile are a compilation of results from top search engines and websites. The search engines that are used by Dogpile's metasearch technology are Google, Bing, Yahoo and Yandex. Because it does not have its own unique results you cannot apply directly to Dogpile to include your URL. If you want your URL to show up in Dogpile search results, you must get it to show up in these other search engine results.

10) Webcrawler

Webcrawler was originally owned by America Online (AOL) in 1995 and had become the preferred search engine for AOL users until it was sold to Excite the following year. Excite continues to operate Webcrawler as a separate search engine. Webcrawler gained popularity with AOL users and has remained quite popular to this day. It took grab its information from the major search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo so no need to submit to them either.

11) Info.com

Info.com is a search platform which draws together the best of the Web. From one search query, they provide you with results from the leading search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Yandex, Ask and Open Directory aka the DMOZ

12) Infospace.com

Just another web search engine which Web Search that brings together top results from all leading search engines. Like Google you can search for images, videos, web and they even have white pages and yellow pages. Since Infospace uses the Open Direcory Project database, submitting directly into Infospace is not possible. Instead, follow the submission tips on the Open Directory Project and your site will automatically appear in Infospace once approved in the Netscape index.

13) Search.com

At #13 you would think a name like this would be more popular but anyhow Search.com is just another search engine that pulls from other search engines and You can include search results from Google Blekko DMOZ or Bing

14) Excite

Excite is similar to Yahoo in the way it looks and that it is a membership based search engine which incorporates other aspects like mail, news, sports, weather, travel and other directory based items. Excite also shut down its manual submission years ago so you have to use a tool like the one on http://www.entireweb.com

15) GoodSearch

Goodsearch started as an idea…and now it has turned into a movement. More than 15 million people used Goodsearch in 2012 to support more than 100,000 non-profits and schools. Since 2006, Goodsearch users have raised more than $9 million, participated in over 1.1 billion charitable actions, and have truly made a difference. This search engine is powered by Yahoo! and actually uses it profits for the good of mankind (a total opposite of Google who seeks to take over the world and not sure if it actually has the best interests of the world in mind) It is broken to to the GoodSearch, the GoodShop, GoodDining, Good to Go adds, and more. The basic concept is when you shop or purchase things from their search engines a lot of proceeds will go to charities and organizations around the world.  If you in the Yahoo Directory then you are here also since once again it is powered by Yahoo!

Best International Search Engines

Yandex (RUSSIA) - http://webmaster.yandex.com/addurl.xml You can submit to Russia's #1 Search Engine which other search engines pull from. Baidu (CHINA) - http://zhanzhang.baidu.com/sitesubmit/index You can submit to China's #1 Search Enging also !! In China there are 538 million Internet users by the end of June 2012 and It is projected that China's Internet population will hit 718 million by 2013, accounting for 52.7 percent of the total population in China but still way more internet users that in the USA and here is your chance to get behind the Great Firewall of China. http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/ - International directory of Search Engines (Explore 314 countries and territories) MORE International Search Engines in Korea, Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, France, Netherlands, India, and Germany !!

More Places to Submit to

Top Social Bookmarking Sites http://www.blogionaire.com http://www.atcontent.com or just get the AtContent Wordpress Plugin http://www.triberr.com - A community of bloggers, read my post on Triberr http://www.entireweb.com - Claims they will submit to Google, Bing, Ask, Lycos, Yahoo, Aol, Altavista, Excite and more. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com - Create free XML Maps to submit to search engines to help their crawler find everything on your site. Like I said in my most of the sites above. Not many accept manual submissions or xml sitemaps but if you find one that does this is where you can make a xml sitemap. Please help add to this list by posting your suggested sites below.