There are two ways to submit your website to Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
The first is using Google and Bing's URL submission pages. Submission using this
method is as simple as simply entering the URL that you wish to submit
and clicking the submit request button. It's the same for both Google and Bing. Simply
enter the URL of the website or webpage that you wish to submit and click the
submit button. If you're wondering why we don't need to submit to Yahoo it's because
Yahoo actually uses Bing's search results. Therefore, submissions are being
automatically results in submission to Yahoo. So, Google and Bing are the only
two search engines you really need to worry about submitting to. However,
although these URL submission pages are perfectly adequate, you may have noticed
that you can only submit one URL at a time. Because of this, along with a few other
reasons, we recommend submitting your website via Google and Bing's
Webmaster Tools instead. Again, this is a very straightforward process and can be
done in just a couple of minutes. Let's start with Google. First, log in to Google
Webmaster Tools and you should see a page that looks something like this. This
shows all of the websites that you currently own and have verified within
Google Webmaster Tools.
If you haven't verified your website already, simply click the add a property
button in the upper right hand corner and you'll be prompted to enter the URL
of the website you wish to verify. Click the 'Add' button and Google is going to
ask for verification of ownership of that website. They give you a few methods
for doing this. Once verified, the website should appear in this list of domains
within search console. Next, you can simply select the property that you wish
to submit a sitemap for, then select the sitemaps option from within the crawl
subheading on the left hand menu. If you haven't submitted the sitemap for this
website already, this page will probably be quite bare
and quite empty. So you'll need to click the add/test sitemap button and enter the
URL of the sitemap for the associated website before clicking
submit. Once you've done this, Google should then show something that looks like
this: So, you can see that Google shows you the number of web pages that you
have submitted via the sitemaps along with the number of pages that
Google has actually indexed from those sitemaps. Ideally, these two numbers
should be pretty close to one another; if not exactly the same.
It's a similar process for Bing. Simply login to Bing webmaster tools,
enter the domain or website that you wish to submit, and click the Add button.
Bing will then ask a few questions about that website and will also ask for a
sitemap URL for that web site. Once you've filled in this form, simply click
the Save button at the bottom of the website and your website should be then
submitted to Bing. If you want to check the indexation status of any website or
any particular URL within either Google or Bing simply go to Google or Bing and
enter the site search operator which is the word 'site:' followed by colon and then
the domain name of the website in which to check indexation status for. Click
search and you should see that Google or Bing returned the results for every web
page they have indexed on that particular domain. As you can see, in this
instance, Google has 411 pages indexed on this domain. If you prefer to check the
indexation status of a particular URL, simply enter the full URL after the site
search operator and click Submit. If Google returns a result, as it does in
this case, that web page is almost certainly indexed. If Google or Bing
doesn't return a result, chances are, they haven't indexed that web page for a
particular reason. You can read our full search engine submission guide on the Ahrefs Blog.
The link is in the video description below along with links to
both Google and Bing's Webmaster Tools, their submission pages, and all of the
resources mentioned in this video.