Submitting Your Site to a Search Engine

Once you have carefully used keywords and added meta tags to all of the desired pages on your site and perhaps created a site map (as described on page 368) that lists those pages, you’ll want to invite a search engine to visit your site in order to add your pages to its database.

To submit your site to a search engine:

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Connect to the search engine of your choice.
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Find their Add URL page.
3.
Google’s is at http://www.google.com/addurl.html (Figure 24.15).
Figure 24.15. Go to the search engine’s Add URL page. This is Google. You can add comments about your page, though they are not used in the search results.

Yahoo’s is at http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
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Type your (site map) page’s URL ...

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