Is submitting your site to yahoo & Google still relevant
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Good Morning from Sh@t its still raining wetherby UK...
I want to just make sure the process i go through when a new site is launched is nort overlooking some fundamentals.
Most sites we launch are not brand new, do allready have a link heritage and have been indexed by Google. With that in mid i do not submit a sites url thru the following links:
www.google.com/addurl
search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
search.live.com/docs/submit.aspxAm i right in saying you should really only bother with this if the site a newbie ie no history no link heritage and the site is enering cyberspace for the forst time.
And i wonder if for example you launched a new site made sure the xml site map was in place and it had a few inbound links anyway it would be indexed anyway.
So is the practice of submitting your url to search engined relevant anymore?
Any insights welcome
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Another possible way is adding your site in Google Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap.xml in Optimization->Sitemaps section. You will see count of submitted urls and indexed urls.
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No worries!
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Brill thanks
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It is not necessary for you to add your URL to these sites unless you have ZERO links - even then it isn't a guarantee. If you have even just a few inbound links then the search engine bots will crawl and index your site.
In regards to how long that will take - it depends on the inbound links. If they are from large sites that get updated regularly then chances are the bots will crawl your site relatively quickly.
Hope this helps!
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