Top 50 Search Engines and Directories
We provide free manual and auto submission to the highest-rated, Free
Internet Search Engines and Directories. The Search Engines and
Directories listed below are all ranked according to popularity.
Rankings are determined by Moz.com and are updated regularly. Have a question about FWS? Check our FAQ page.
How to Submit Your Site to Search Engines
We highly recommend manually submitting your website pages to the
search engines. That said, the search engines give no guarantee of
ranking your page because you have manually submitted it. It is a tool
that we use to let the search engines know that we have new information
to share.
We suggest manual submission of your site's pages to Google, Yahoo!
and Bing because they have made it apparent that it is what they prefer.
The search engines have implemented manual submission as a best
practice to protect themselves from extreme levels of spam.
It is important to submit your site's pages to all of the major
search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) because even though the other
engines have less traffic than Google, they still have millions of
users. When you submit a URL or domain name to the search engines, it
could take anywhere from two to four weeks to get indexed. Sometimes
your page will not get indexed after you submit it, if that occurs, wait
four weeks and then resubmit the page again.
If you are unhappy with your web page's ranking results, take a look
at what your competition is doing. Make sure you are following the
basic rules of search engine optimization. Make changes to the page and
resubmit it to the search engines. You can submit your pages a maximum
of two times per month until you are listed in the major search engines'
results.
Submit Site to Google
Google's URL submit is very quick and easy. Be sure to set up your website with
Google Search Console if you do not already have one. Next, go to
Google's web page for URL submitting, type in your URL, type in the message that ensures Google you are an individual not a software robot and click "add URL."
You can also submit your site map to Google via their
Search Console.
Submit Site to Yahoo!
Since 2010, Yahoo search has been powered by Microsoft's Bing search
engine. When you submit your site to Bing you will also show up in
Yahoo's search results. See below on how to submit your site to Bing.
Yahoo! had a paid submission process in the past, although Yahoo! Directory is no longer available.
Submit Site to Bing
Bing allows you to submit your URL, just like Google. You will first need to have a Bing login, then go to Bing's
Webmaster Tools
page. Once logged in simply type in the URL of your homepage and press
"submit". You will also want to have the URL for the .xml version of
your sitemap readily available, as it will ask for this in the first
step of submitting your domain. After submitting you will have to
verify ownership of the domain.
This can be a little tricky if you are not savvy with HTML, as you will
need to add a small snippet of code to the header of your site in order
to pass this verification process. Once verified, you are finished!
Submit Site to Ask
Ask no longer allows you to submit your sitemap. This was a feature
they disabled, and now solely crawl sites. However, you can still
reference your sitemap from robots.txt. This way, Ask.com can index your
website content.
At Smartz, we add all of our clients' sitemaps to the auto-discovery
directive, robots.txt. This ensures that all of the search engines
automatically know about your sitemap. It does not hurt to manually
submit your sitemaps, for the search engines that allow it.
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