How can I submit the URL of my web page to search engines?
You have several options when it comes to submitting the URL of your web page to search engines like Yahoo! or Google. If you want to submit to hundreds of sites with very little effort, you can use one of the many pay services available on the web. Use a search engine to find a search engine submission service that meets your needs.
Some online services offer bulk submission for free. Be sure to read the fine print to find out what may be expected of you in return for using this service.
You may also submit to each search engine manually. This takes time and patience, because not all search engines make their submission pages easy to find.
If you use Mypage at IU
University Information Technology Services (UITS) has a "no-robots" policy on the Mypage web server at Indiana University. Re-indexing large numbers of web pages is too costly and harmful to the performance of the server. Therefore, pages on Mypage (hosted on Mercury) cannot be searched by commercial search engines.
If you submit your web page's URL to a search engine as described above, these sites can display it only if they don't use a robot to verify the address. Some web sites use robots; some don't.
However, if you have a home.html file in your
www directory and have run the spinweb
command, your page will automatically be linked from the Directory of
Personal Home Pages. Once your page is linked from the directory,
it will be included in the Indiana University Search Engine's index of
pages, so anyone using the IU Search will be able to find your Mypage
pages.
Note: The IU South Bend Mypage service is different from the Mypage service noted here; see IUSB's Web Publishing: Mypage.
Last modified on March 11, 2009.
