There are two times, at least, in the life of a website that you need to submit your website’s url to the major search engines. When you fail to do so, you leave that task up to the search engine “crawlers,” that scour the Internet ( rather Wraith like), looking for new websites. The good news is there are lots of free website submission tools that you can use.

The first of these times is when you build a brand new website. You need to get word about your website out proactively. It can takes weeks, otherwise, for the search engines to even begin to find your website.

The second time is when you make major changes to your website. This could cause changes to your sitemap, and might even break links attached to your website, or links caught by search engines. A classic example of this is when users of Wordpress themes, like this site, change the default permalink for their website. Search engine friendly url’s have to be built in the custom structure section. Joomla sites started with content have the same issue. If these are not caught from the git-go, you will have a time where your search engine rankings will suffer.

Many so-called free url submission sites are anything but free. They will require you to submit your url, email address, phone number. After a period of time, the companies will want you to try out their services, and will want to “up sell” you to their new and improved submission subscription. In some senses, this is not bad. You may not want to do that work yourself. If you are really wanting to do the work yourself, you need to be careful with these “landing pages.”

Here are some free websites that are directly owned by the search engine companies:

All five of these sites are quality search engines. They have a Google PR rating of at least 6. They also have an Alexa traffic rank of at east 11707, up to the number one traffic site, Google.com. With a little work, you can find others.

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