Submitting your URL to Google

Google is one of the top three webites visited by people on the Internet. To get a site listed on Google’s index (and therefore show up when people search the site) you need to submit your URL and which gets Googlebot^® to visit your pages. Making things easy for us is what Google was known for in the early days and submitting my site pages to Google was as easy as ABC.

Google’s submit page is found using the resource links at the end of this article. To submit your URL, simply type it into the box. I submitted http://stirlyn.co.uk and decided to add no comment as it is an optional field. You will notice that like most sites that ask you to submit information to them, Google uses image validation to differentiate between individuals and automated submission software. Pressing the ‘Add URL’ button completes this process.

I looked at my server logs a few days later and noticed that Googlebot^® had visited my site and when I returned to google and typed in the URL it had been listed. Job Done.

Resource Links external to stirlyn.co.uk

• Google Add URL page

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