Exploiting the Search Engines - How to Submit Your URL to the Major Web Search Engines on Autopilot!

Submitting your URL (your website address) to the major search engines is a sure fire way to increase the exposure of your site. Adding your site to the web search engines quite simply builds back links to your site from these directories. Quite often these directories have a high page rank, and Google amongst others loves incoming links from high ranking sites. Relevant incoming links gives your site credibility and clout. More importantly. Adding your URL to search engines brings in prospective customers. This is after all the name of the game!

To submit a URL you normally need to go to each search engine you want to submit to, find out how to add your URL (they are all different) on that particular search engine, and then add your site details such as URL, description, keywords, email address and so on.

This is all very well in theory, but in practice submitting your URL to the many and varied web based search engines is a real chore. In fact to be honest finding the relevant web directories and submitting your URL details to each one can take hours, if not days!

However time taken on this task, can over time build big results, and adding your site URL to as many search engines as possible, is an important part of your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy. So given that you ought to be submitting your URL to the major search engines, isn’t there an easier way than the hard slog of submitting each one by hand? Of course there is! There are two basic ways this can be achieved through automation.

Basically the two methods are to use a desktop based program to submit your URLs, or use a web based tool to do the same job. Pros and cons? Yes, there are a few. If you want more control on the search directories your URL is submitted to, want to undertake traffic building on a regular basis and want to get reports of where your site has been submitted to, then a desktop solution is a must. If you are submitting URLs infrequently and just want a quick way to increase your website traffic, then submitting your URL on one of the free sites on the web, is the way to go.

A few tips on whatever submit URL route you take. Get your site description and keywords ready before you start submitting. Make sure you have included relevant search terms in the keywords and description. Set up a special email address for your site submissions, just in case any of the directories decided spam you (which they don’t normally, but this is just a precaution).

So you really do need to submit your URL to the major web directories as part of your SEO strategy. It’s just a matter of how you do it, but whatever you do, don’t add your URL to each site individually - you’ll go mad believe me - you must look at automating te process for maximum returm..

To submit your site to 140 plus search engines for free you can use SubmitSiteHQ. Serious web marketeers with several sites, should consider submitting to directories on a regular basis. PC software such as RobbiSoft’s DirectoryBot can help you achieve this quickly and automatically.