Submission Experience

                So this is meant to be a review of my experiences trying to submit the websites I work on to search engines. Though I started this experiment using this blog, which is posted through the third party sites (tumblr.com, wordpress.com, and blogspot.com); I found I was unable to use my blog as a good demo for the search engine submission process. I quickly found that with the two largest search engines (Google and Bing) the way to submit your site is by using their webmaster tools, and to do this you had to be able to alter the header HTML, or create a meta-tag on the site with a specific key – or otherwise modify the site to show the specific key generated for you. This is not readily apparent or easy for you to do with these third party sites. That said there are ways. So far I have only investigated this with the wordpress.com site, but if you install certain SEO plugins they have ways through their options or setting settings menu for you to just input the key generated. The specific plugin I used was the All in One SEO Pack.

                Naver and Daum both serve as phone directories in their respective countries as well as web search engines. So the default URL submission settings include a space where you are supposed to put your phone number, and of course the country area codes are restricted to Asia. In Naver you can just leave the phone number blank and hit submit and it will process just your website. For Daum there are bubble options right before the URL submission box, start clicking them until you find the one that just shows the URL submission box, and hides the phone number box. This is the option to submit just a website; once you have the right button clicked you can submit your website.

                Qihoo 360 Search had a slightly longer form where you also had to submit your email and a captcha. Yahoo gets their search results from Bing, so your use of their webmaster tools covered Yahoo as well, they also pull their directory results from DMOZ so you can submit there to possibly be included in the Yahoo Directory. The rest of the search engines mentioned in my first post on submitting to search engines were extremely easy; basically input the URL and hit go. All told if you are already registed with a Microsoft and Google account, the whole process should take less than 25min. If you have to create new accounts for them however you could easily tack on another 15-30 minutes.