One of the very first things you should do after you have completed building your site, is to submit to all the top search engines. Most search engines will not index your site until you have submitted it to them. Search engines are a free way to get traffic to your site.
Google
Submitting a site to google is very easy. Just go the their url submission site and enter your url, a comment, and the captcha.
Bing
Submitting a site to Bing is very similar to Google’s url submission. Go to their url submission site and enter the captcha, your url, and click submit URL.
Yahoo
You can submit your site to yahoo by going to their site explorer website submission page. Enter your url and hit submit.
Ask.com
Ask.com’s site submission is a little more complex. They require an XML sitemap. An XML sitemap is a map of your whole site in an XML format. There are a few ways to build an xml sitemap.
You can build an xml sitemap manually using the structure found here http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php . This is very time tedious and time consuming. If you do choose thise method, I would recommend using an actual XML editor like the free one from microsoft found here. This will prevent you from making syntax mistakes that youw make your sitemap invalid.
Another way is to build your xml sitemap is to use an online tool such as the one found at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com . You enter your URL, frequency of change, last modification date and priority, then click start and it will generate your xml sitemap.
For wordpress users, there is a very simple xml sitemap generator plugin. You can download it here . Upload the plugin and enable it. Your sitemap should then be available at http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
Once you have your xml sitemap ready you can submit it to ask.com by using the link below and replacing [Link To Your Sitemap] with the link to your sitemap.
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=[Link To Your Sitemap]
You should then see this page from Ask.com
Now that you’ve taken the first step, start learning Search Engine Optimization. The higher you rank in the results pages, the more ttraffic you will get.
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