Submit Website to Search Engine

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Submitting Website to Search Engine

Search engines are pretty good at finding new websites on their own, as long as they are linked to from somewhere on the web.

How Do I Submit My Website to Google?

It’s pretty easy to submit websites to Google.

In fact, the only way to submit your website is by adding your sitemap to Google Search Console.

Here’s how:

1. Locate Your XML Sitemap

A sitemap is an XML file that lists all the pages on a website.

It can usually be found by going to:

YOURWEBSITE.com/sitemap.xml

2. Add Your Sitemap to Google Search Console

Open up Google Search Console and, under Index, select sitemaps.

Now, all you need to do is paste in your sitemap URL and hit submit:

If you have multiple sitemaps, just repeat this process until all your sitemaps are listed in the submitted section.

You will need to have added and verified your site to GSC in order to do this.

If you need more in-depth steps, we have a Search Console guide that will walk you through everything you need to know. Likewise, we also have this guide on how to submit a site to Google News if you want your site to appear there.

3. Submit a Page URL to Google

What if you just want to submit an individual page to Google though? This is pretty simple too.

In Search Console, go to URL inspection and paste in your page URL you want to index.

If the page isn’t indexed, you’ll see that GSC says ‘URL is not on Google’. To get it crawled, just click on Request Indexing:

How Do I Submit My Website to Yahoo?

Ok so this is the easiest one. To get your website to show up on Yahoo… you submit your site to Bing.

That wasn’t a mistype. Submitting your website to Bing automatically submits it to Yahoo also.

So you might as well go to the next section to get your site listed on Bing:

How Do I Submit My Website to Bing?(Submit Website to Search Engine)

First, you need to go to Bing Webmaster Tools. You’ll need to make sure you have set it up for your site. If you need help, here’s our handy Bing WMT guide.

Just like Search Console, submitting your sitemap in Bing is simple. Just choose ‘Sitemaps’ from the menu, paste in your sitemap URL and hit Submit.

Not only will this submit your site to Bing, but also to Yahoo (as they are both powered by Bings Index).

Bing URL Submissions Plugin (Submit Website to Search Engine)

If your site is powered by WordPress, there’s an easier way for you to submit your content to Bing using their Bing URL Submissions plugin.

Free to use and easy to activate, the plugin will automatically submit your new or updated content directly to Bing’s search index after you’ve added your API key:

There are a few features you can play around with, such as:

The automatic submission feature you can toggle on and off, based on your needs.
Manual URL submission.
View recent URLs submitted through the plugin, which can be also downloaded as a handy list to keep track of.
The possibility to re-submit recent URLs.

How Do I Submit My Website to DuckDuckGo?

The short answer here is: you don’t.

DuckDuckGo automatically indexes the web, so you don’t need to manually submit your website to them.

In fact, it uses over 400 sources and Bing’s search results, so if you’ve followed the previous steps to submit to Bing (and Yahoo), you did all you needed to speed up indexing for your site on DuckDuckGo.

Avoid Submission Services

Getting your website listed on Google, Bing or Yahoo is free, so you should not be paying a submission service to get you listed.

Signing up for a search engine submission service is pointless. And if you are unlucky, you’ll be bombarded with spammy emails trying to sell your low-quality SEO services.

The search engines that matter provide useful resources to help as well as documented methods of getting a site submitted and successfully indexed on Google, Yahoo, and Bing anyway. You don’t need services to do this.

Additional Search Engine Submission Resources

Most search engines have specific ways of submitting web pages to their index. Here are links to the official pages for submitting your site to search engines:

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