How to Submit Your Site to the Google Index—The Easy Way

Although you could wait for the GoogleBot crawler to find your site on the Web, a more proactive approach is to manually submit your site for inclusion in the Google web index. It’s an easy process—in fact, the easiest thing we’ll discuss in this chapter.

All you have to do is go to www.google.com/addurl/, shown in Figure 38.1. Enter the URL for your home page into the appropriate box (including the http://), add any comments you might have, and then click the Add URL button. That’s it; Google will now add your site to the GoogleBot crawl list, and your site will appear in the appropriate search results.

Figure 38.1. Submitting your site to the Google index.

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