Submission

Web site submission is a helpful tool that companies use in order to speed up the amount of time it takes for each of the search engines to pick up a new site. By submitting your site you are allowing each of the search engines to recognize that you have a valid URL and are ready for placement within the search results. Each of the search engines will need to be submitted to individually and will have there own preferences for submission. Site submission is the process of suggesting a site to a search engine. Usually you fill out a form telling the search engine's spider to visit and index the suggested site. Submitting your site greatly improves the likelihood that it will appear in users' search results.

Top search engines have standard forms for site suggestions. A link to a search engine's submission form can usually be found on its home page labeled "Add a site" or "Suggest a URL." Submission forms will usually ask you for a URL, your e-mail address, your site's name and the category it fits into. Whenever you fill out a submission form, double-check to make sure you specified the right URL to be crawled.

Some might be thinking will my site get picked up by the search engine if I don’t submit my site? The answer to this question is yes. Your site will still be picked by the search engine without submitting your URL directly to them; however this will cause a delay in your site being picked up. All new websites will eventually be picked up by the search engine on their own given time. An advantage to submitting your site to the search engine is to increase the speed the search engine begins placing your website into the natural search result listings.