How To Submit A Website URL To Google

Submit A Website URL Along With Your Own Description

After ordering your web hosting package, setting up your email addresses, creating your web pages (with appropriate meta tags and keywords/keyphrases inside them) and uploading them to your public_html folder; the next thing to do is Submit Your URL (website address) to all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask) in order to get your website highly indexed (highly listed).

The hope is to get your website listed on Page 1 of those major search engines so that plenty of visitors, also known as Traffic, come flooding to your website asking to buy your product(s) and/or service(s). Hope and Reality are two different things though.

Focus On Your Keywords, Not On The No.1 Position

The reality is not just getting your index web page (i.e. www.whatever.com) listed on page 1, it is also about getting your other web pages listed on page 1. And more importantly keeping your web pages on page 1. This said. It is not a disgrace to be listed on pages 2, 3 or 4 these days.

This is because your potential customers may not like what they see listed on page 1 and therefore keep browsing through the search engine listings (results) for a few more pages before giving up their search or before changing their keywords/keyphrases. Hence why keywords, meta tags, page titles and so on are important. You have to think like the person looking for your product(s)/service(s).

Submit Your Website URL To The Major Search Engines

Submit your Website URL to the other major search engines as well as to Google. Google is not the only search engine you should entertain because the other can help you too. Not everyone uses Google.

Google's URL Submission Form is here: http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/ (or your country's equivalent). The url submission form is quite straight forward to fill in. Although it states that the description (keywords) you enter inside the COMMENTS edit box is for their usage/information only I would put meaningful keywords in that edit box if I were you. They might not have anything to do with ranking (positioning) your website (index web page) but they might be used to describe your website in search results (Fig 1.1).

Fig 1.0  Click on the ADD button to Submit Your URL (Website Address) to the Google search engine

When I submitted this website's url to Google, in June 2009, it was positioned on Page 1, Position 8. This was due implementing the practical advice given in the Domain Name Research Advice section. Fig 1.0 just shows you how to submit a website's url using google's URL Submission Form, but there is no need for me, or you, to resubmit it once submitted.

Now it is March 2010 and my position has jumped from Page 1, Position 8 to Page 1, Position 5. It should be higher perhaps but for the last three months or so I have done nothing with this website. Therefore that three position jump has taken around 3 Months to achieve naturally.

If I had promoted this website in that time its position could of been higher within 1 Month for example, depending on the level of promotion. Saying this, my website is on Page 1 of the other major search engines - See the video on the index page.

Fig 1.1  This website is listed on Page 1, Position 5 in the Google search engine results

I chose a domain name that consists of three highly searched for keywords - Website, Creation and Help. When these three keywords are put together as a keyphrase, especially Website Creation, they have a higher ratio of search enquiries. And this is one of the key factors in getting listed highly - Your domain name has to have meaning, credibility and worth for each of its keywords.

Being on Page 1 of one or more search engines is not all it is cracked up to be. There are problems with this fame! Too many curious visitors using up your bandwidth, not enough paying visitors, pressures of being number 1 (of thee Authority), time spent reinventing your newsletters/services and so on. But if you can do this time and energy hogging work then read the traffic creation/maintenance tips throughout this TRAFFIC section. They will teach what you should be doing to keep yourself noticed on the internet. Remember. It is about Time, Energy and being a Doer.

Ignore The Gurus

If you read on the internet "Do not submit your website url to the search engines because they will think your website is not worthy - It could not get to the number 1 position through its own means", or words to this affect, IGNORE THAT BULL****.

Firstly google, and the other search engines with a Submit URL web page, will not penalize you for submitting your website url to them. If that was the case why do they have a web page that welcomes you to submit your website's url? Those search engines that do not have a submit url web page will find your website via other means.

Secondly there would be uproar if any kind of penalization of this kind would happen.

And thirdly; To make a statement such as DO NOT Submit Your Website URL.... would be like having One Million business people next door to you whereby someone says to you "Do NOT give out your business card next door because they will think your business is too small". They might think that, and you might know that, but you would still give out your business card which they would accept. You would be crazy not to give out your business card!